and Thievery Corporation.Įven then, being the focal point of the band was nowhere near the front of her mind. Naturally, as her tastes skewed toward artists who shake people out of conformity, she soon found herself sharing the stage (while pinching herself) with boundary-breaking personal heroes like M.I.A. “Oh – I don’t need to just be a fan, I can participate, this is so cool!” she recalls of her epiphany. Learning the drums at summer camp in her youth, she realized later on that her ability to play could connect her to artists whose music inspired her. Music was always a means to an end – it wasn’t the end itself.” That’s not to imply this medium was haphazardly selected she’s long nurtured a genuine affinity for playing and an adoration for others’ music. “As a young person, music had such a positive influence - that’s why I wanted to use it later in life to influence other people to be the best selves they can be.”Īnd she freely admits that “music is very much a vehicle through which I deliver my message. I’ve had phases, but music and feminism have been part of my passion and thought process since I can remember, since childhood,” she says. Music and feminism is all I’ve cared about. But the personal has always been political to Gandhi. I loved feeling like I was learning about somebody else’s story.”įor a lot of creatives, that might lead them to craft inward-gazing narratives focused on their individual experiences.
Listening to Nas and Lauryn Hill… as a young person, it instilled in me a sense of empathy and storytelling I didn’t have access to anywhere else. “And as soon as he would drive away from the parents, he would change it back to the hip-hop station, Hot 97. “When he would pull up to pick up each of the kids from their parents, he’d play the classical station,” she remembers with a smirk. If that Danish politician can cite Gandhi’s jubilant, thoughtful art as the reason she’s working toward a better world right now, Gandhi herself can point to a New York City school bus driver named Harrison for introducing her to the transformative power of music when she was just a kindergartener named Kiran Gandhi. “Just this past year I heard back from her via Facebook that she’d been elected - she’d received the seat she was campaigning for and is fighting for climate change.” I’m going to run,'” Gandhi warmly recalls.
But after seeing your show, I’m doing it. “She said, ‘I’ve been waiting to run for Danish parliament for three years, and I’ve held back. There was a lot more than t-shirts on her mind. Following her set, a young woman approached her at the merch table. Two years ago, Los Angeles-based electronic artist and activist Madame Gandhi was in Denmark, singing and rapping her message of future feminism at Roskilde Festival. Each month, Billboard Pride celebrates an LGBTQ act as its Artist of the Month.
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