Jonita Gandhi

“The only language I feel I'm perfectly fluent in is English. It's the language I grew up studying, thinking in and the one I'm most comfortable in when expressing myself. My Hindi is also quite good, but outside English and Hindi, I wouldn't consider myself to be fluent in any other language.”

“I use tools like social media, Internet and all those things available to us as women to get out there and to make our voices heard.”

“I think with so many languages in India, it helps in taking music beyond one particular language.”

“Growing up in Canada, I always felt that the film industry was far away, and getting to sing a duet with the legendary SPB, and that too for an SRK film, it felt unreal.”

“I don't want to have a label. I just want to do everything.”

“Singing in Tamil is always challenging but really fun.”

“I used to watch these home videos people were putting up and thought to myself that oh this is pretty cool! So I shot some random selfie videos in my basement and posted them.”

“The more music I do, the more I want to do.”

“We're from Delhi and I've grown up surrounded by my parents and relatives speaking Punjabi at home.”

“The guitar is something I always wanted to learn.”

“As cliche as it sounds, there's a reason why people always say that music has no language; it transcends language barriers.”

“I choose to do different songs for different reasons and I measure their success accordingly.”

“If you do something and people like it, that's fine.”

“I want to sing something that I have written from scratch. How cool would that be.”

“I feel really lucky that I got the opportunity to work with Bappi Da. His reign over the disco era in Bollywood will never be forgotten.”

“Performing to famous Bollywood tracks is always an appealing opportunity as that plays an essential role in defining our culture. And when you think of India, you think of Bollywood!”

“A lot of times what happens is, the song that is the most special ends up being least heard. So, whenever I am asked my favourite song, I always try to think of the ones which are little lesser known.”

“If you want to continue working, continue collaborating with people, you have to be open to the idea of people sending their vocals virtually.”

“Even though I was raised in Canada, Bollywood has always been dear to me because I used to sing mostly Hindi songs at shows.”

“Dancing was my ultimate passion but as I grew up, seeing my father who is a musician himself, I got inspired and after 11, it gradually became a passion.”