But in the most recent video on Vidya’s channel, the 28-year-old opens up about her family, upbringing, racism and more. The 360-degree video is shot in India and is almost seven minutes long. Vidya talks about her abusive father, facing racism in the US as a brown-skinned girl and her struggle with mental health as well.
She begins her story by saying, “My music is a complete reflection of who I am as a person.” She talks about her training in Carnatic music since the age of five.
Vidya then talks about how, as she grew up in the US, her Indian heritage and her desire to blend in with the other white kids ensured that she lived in two different worlds. “At home, I’d be listening to Indian music, eating dosa and sambhar. On the way to school, the bus driver would be playing Destiny’s Child, Backstreet Boys and Shakira. I kept the two worlds very apart,” Vidya narrates in a well-shot sequence where both the Indian and western avatars of Vidya are grooming themselves in a mirror.
She reveals that she and her sister were the only brown kids in their school, and were bullied for it and for the food they ate.
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