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Lesbians Who Tech Summit
San Francisco, CA
February 2nd, 2018
"I'm not everyday trying to turn up to the sound of my own oppression." 👊🏽 What happens when you combine music creation with feminism? Artist, activist, and badass creator Madame Gandhi takes us through a live music production session while dropping feminist insights, highlighting the tech 💻 that allows her to fiercly and freely create more than music, but a revolution. 💥 For more technology insights, join us September 12-14th for the Lesbians Who Tech + Allies New York Summit: lesbianswhotech.org/newyork2018 🔥
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Kiran, who performs as Madame Gandhi, is an electronic music artist and activist based in Los Angeles. She studied mathematics at Georgetown University and worked as the first ever data analyst at Interscope Records before going on to receive her MBA from Harvard. Having gained recognition as the former drummer for artists M.I.A. and Thievery Corporation, and as the viral free-bleeding runner at the 2015 London Marathon, Madame Gandhi now produces music that elevates and celebrates the female voice. In 2016, she released her EP Voices which reached number #8 on the Spotify U.S. Viral Top 50 Chart and in 2017, she toured as the opening act for Ani DiFranco. Madame Gandhi is currently working on her debut full-length album and has completed 2 more marathons since London.
Lesbians Who Tech Summit
San Francisco, CA
February 2nd, 2018
"I'm not everyday trying to turn up to the sound of my own oppression." 👊🏽 What happens when you combine music creation with feminism? Artist, activist, and badass creator Madame Gandhi takes us through a live music production session while dropping feminist insights, highlighting the tech 💻 that allows her to fiercly and freely create more than music, but a revolution. 💥 For more technology insights, join us September 12-14th for the Lesbians Who Tech + Allies New York Summit: lesbianswhotech.org/newyork2018 🔥
MadameGandhi.com
@madamegandhi
Kiran, who performs as Madame Gandhi, is an electronic music artist and activist based in Los Angeles. She studied mathematics at Georgetown University and worked as the first ever data analyst at Interscope Records before going on to receive her MBA from Harvard. Having gained recognition as the former drummer for artists M.I.A. and Thievery Corporation, and as the viral free-bleeding runner at the 2015 London Marathon, Madame Gandhi now produces music that elevates and celebrates the female voice. In 2016, she released her EP Voices which reached number #8 on the Spotify U.S. Viral Top 50 Chart and in 2017, she toured as the opening act for Ani DiFranco. Madame Gandhi is currently working on her debut full-length album and has completed 2 more marathons since London.
![Madame Gandhi - Yellow Sea [Official Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9PEMHOJvuq4/mqdefault.jpg "Madame Gandhi - Yellow Sea [Official Audio]
1. Yellow Sea
Written and Produced by Kiran Gandhi & Anthony Saffery (Portugal The Man, Cornershop)
Additional Production by Alexia Riner & Neil Comber (M.I.A, Florence + The Machine)
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Madame-gandhi-yellow-sea-lyrics
As featured in Afternoon Made at Starbucks - New Cold Foam Cascara Cold Brew Starbucks Ad May 2018.
Voices EP by Madame Gandhi
Mixed by Neil Comber
Mastered by Piper Payne
Album Artwork by Wendy Figueroa
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Bio: Kiran Gandhi, who performs as Madame Gandhi, is a Los Angeles-based musician, activist and music industry thinker. She has toured professionally drumming for M.I.A and Thievery Corporation and currently DJs, drums and produces music under her own name. Her song “The Future is Female” climbed to #8 on the Viral US Top 50 Spotify Charts following the 2017 Women’s March and her solo EP Voices has received critical acclaim from outlets like FADER, Paper Mag, Billboard and Milk.
Kiran holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Political Science and Women’s Studies from Georgetown (COL ’11) and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School (MBA 15), and has used her degrees to run her own musical project as well as advise music companies Spotify, Stem, Bonnaroo, Pandora, YouTube and D’addario. Between 2011-2013, Kiran worked at Interscope Records for two years as their first ever digital analyst, studying patterns in Spotify and YouTube consumption behavior.
In 2015, she ran the London Marathon free-bleeding to combat period stigma around the world, sparking a global viral conversation about how we treat menstruation in various cultures. She now travels often to perform and speak about modern gender equality, and is also working on her full-length album. Madame Gandhi’s mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice.
Yellow Sea Lyrics:
Take me up
Ooh take me up
Ooh take me up
Where you’re mine
Where we’re free
All I see is lost in green
And my core breathing fantasy
And Ooh take me up
To that place
To your mind
Where my thoughts get caught in time
And my soul’s calmest light
Can sleep soundly through the night
If I drum the beat
Will you sing with me x3
If I drum the beat
A yellow sea around me
A yellow sea around me
Bring me back
Ooh bring me back
(In the wake of all thats happened)
Ooh bring me back
(In the wake of all this time, time)
Where we’re there
Coastal Air
Running twenty by the sea
And my legs dancing wildly
But nostalgic thoughts make a young babe crazy
When I get lost I just turn on Waze[y]
She always knows which way to take me
Basking naked where the sun rays hit me
(a yellow sea around me)
If I drum the beat
Will you sing with me x3
If I drum the beat
A yellow sea around me
A yellow sea around me
I love you
I love you
I love you
[iPhone sample recording outro]")
