“Harmonium-wielding punk howler channeling New York grit, blues fury, and survivor rage.”
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Curatorial notes
Shilpa Ray is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter whose music fuses an Indian harmonium with punk, garage rock, blues, and new wave into something entirely her own. Raised in New Jersey by Indian immigrant parents who banned Western music, she secretly devoured The Cramps, Joy Division, and the Velvet Underground before emerging as a solo performer, later forming Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers...
