Mali

Mali is the stage name of Maalavika Manoj, an Indian singer-songwriter. Wikipedia records her birth as 16 September 1993 in Chennai to Malayali parents, piano studies into her teens, a BBA that included time in France, a move to Mumbai to work as a musician, and the stage name Mali around her album Deceptive (planned for 16 June 2013 at Taj Coromandel and issued on iTunes slightly earlier). The same article lists the five-track EP Rush on 27 January 2017, including the earlier single Dreaming, and notes that Rolling Stone India ranked the title track second among its 10 Best Indian Singles of 2017.

Rolling Stone India’s feature on Caution to the Wind describes that eight-track album as her debut full-length after Dreaming and Rush, with writing and production developed alongside Mumbai producer Arnob Bal, whom she had met through work on Short Round’s Favourite Strangers. Wikipedia dates the full album to April 2021, after the April 2020 single Age of Limbo, and records a March 2020 selection for Spotify’s RADAR program plus a February 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 India listing. Discography cites those published honours and does not convert them into AggregateRating schema.

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