Indian American R&B Singer Raveena Releases Bollywood-Inspired Track

New York, Jan 16 (IANS) New York-based R&B singer Raveena Aurora, who got the attention of the music industry with her debut album 'Lucid' (2019), has released what V Magazine calls an "upbeat track (that) merges Bollywood influences with psychedelic imagery".## Taking to Twitter to share her excitement over the music video shoot for 'Rush', which is what the new track is called, Raveena commented: "I really felt like a real-life Bollywood princess in this music video shoot".## 'Lucid', incidentally, was named one of the best albums of 2019 by the music staff of NPR, America's public radio broadcasting corporation.## "I wrote 'Rush' a couple of years back and the song was the genesis of me exploring a more intense marriage between Bollywood sounds and the pop/R&B music that I grew up on in America," the singer, who was born and raised in Queens, said in a statement.## According to V Magazine, "'Rush' marries Raveena's delicate vocals with thumping, Indian-inspired production".## Accompanying the newly-released song is a music video that sees the singer take on the persona of Asha, a Punjabi space princess. V Magazine describes the "must-watch" video as "glorious" and "hypnotizing".## "The song and video are centered around a character I created named Asha, a Punjabi space princess," the singer, a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, explained in her statement. "(Asha) is transported to a distant planet and learns highly advanced spiritual intelligence from the beings that live there".## The singer concluded: "I wanted to create a campy ode to the colorful '80s Bollywood movies and '70s Western sci-fi movies that I'm obsessed with, complete with a choreographed dance sequence alongside Asha's alien friends".## Stay tuned...