Tara Priya

Tara Priya
San Francisco musician Tara Priya performing in The Boom Boom Room at the Fillmore Jazz Festival in 2012.
Background information
Birth name Tara Priya Chandra
Also known as Tara Priya
Born (1989-12-03) 3 December 1989
San Francisco Bay Area, California
Genres Pop, blue-eyed soul, R&B
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Years active 2011-present
Labels P-Vine Records (Japan), Rockhit Records (Germany)
Associated acts Steve Booker,[1] Matthew Gerrard[1]
Website http://www.tarapriya.com

Tara Priya (born Tara Priya Chandra, December 3, 1989)[2] is an American singer-songwriter and vocalist. Tara Priya was born Tara Priya Chandra in San Francisco to a Persian mother, the niece of poet Sohrab Sepehri, and an Indian father.[3]

Early life

Tara Priya attended The Harker School in San Jose prior to Columbia University in New York City.[4] Priya majored in economics while studying jazz and classical voice.[5] After graduating from Columbia two years early, Priya returned to California to focus on her career as a singer-songwriter.[6]

Career

Immediately after moving to LA and releasing a 6-track Motown-inspired EP,[7] Priya was nominated as one of the Best Emerging Artists by The Deli Magazine.[8] Shortly after, Priya was selected as one of three "Pop" genre finalists of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest[9] and named a category winner in the Billboard Song Contest.[10][11]

Tara Priya was a guest performer on BBC London 94.9 in November and December 2011.[12] Earlier that year, she also performed at the NAMM Show,[13] and the Bacardi NH7 Weekender in India.[14]

In January 2012, after signing to Japanese indie P-Vine Records,[15] Priya released her first radio single, "Run Like Hell", in Japan, where it peaked at number 25[16] on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, and number six[17] on the Billboard Japan Digital and Airplay chart. This led to two subsequent tours of Japan, through Tower Records and Billboard Live, respectively.[18]

Clear Entertainment, a subsidiary of David Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated,[19] signed Priya to their management roster.[20] The following March, Priya showcased at SXSW 2013 in Austin, TX,[21] after which she was named an "emerging icon" by The Huffington Post.[22]

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 "'Shot in the Dark' Credits" Tower Records Online. Retrieved 6 February 2014
  2. ↑ "Tara Priya Biography". Last.fm. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "NXNE Concert Picks". The Toronto Star. 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
  4. ↑ Bukowski, Danielle (September 2011). "Interview, Tara Priya". Side b Magazine 04.
  5. ↑ "Tara Priya, CC '09, makes waves with retro soul". Columbia Daily Spectator. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  6. ↑ "Two Old Souls". Mountain View Voice. 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  7. ↑ "San Francisco Retro Soul Queen Tara Priya Follows in the Footsteps of Amy Winehouse". mb! by Mercedes Benz. 2011-04-01. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  8. ↑ "Best of LA #42: Tara Priya". La.thedelimagazine.com. 2011-02-14. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  9. ↑ "John Lennon Songwriting Contest". Jlsc.com. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  10. ↑ "Tara Priya". P-Vine.jp. 2012-01-07. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  11. ↑ "Songwriting Competitions". ASCAP.com. 2011-03-15. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  12. ↑ "London 94.9 Programmes - Sunny and Shay, Anna Smith, Hardeep Singh Kohli and Raghav and Tara Priya". BBC. 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  13. ↑ http://www.namm.org/node/7292
  14. ↑ "Pretty in Pink". Indian Express. 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  15. ↑ "P-Vine Records Artist Roster". p-vine.jp. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  16. ↑ "Japan Hot 100". Billboard.com. 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  17. ↑ "Billboard JAPAN Digital and Airplay Overseas". Billboard-Japan.com. 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  18. ↑ "Tara Priya". Time Out Tokyo. 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  19. ↑ "David Letterman Starts Record Label". Entertainment Weekly. 2010-04-28. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  20. ↑ "Clear Entertainment Music Artists". http://clearentertainmentmusic.com/. Retrieved 2013-04-04. External link in |publisher= (help)
  21. ↑ "Tara Priya Schedule sxsw". http://schedule.sxsw.com/. Retrieved 2013-02-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
  22. ↑ "You Need To Hear This". The Huffington Post. 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2013-10-15.

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