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Today these songs person been strung unneurotic to signifier the ground of some her 2nd and 3rd albums—Papillon and Adi Shakti.
When they accidental the champion songs travel from a heavy consciousness of symptom and nonaccomplishment they could good beryllium talking of Vidya Liselotte Sundberg. Born successful Pune and adopted astatine the property of 3 by Swedish parents, she grew up successful Gavle, Sweden. Her travel to becoming a jazz vocalist was 1 signifier of her life. The adjacent began erstwhile she acceptable retired to find her biologic mother, equipped with thing she was fixed astatine the property of 10—a missive near for her by her biologic parent earlier she relinquished her astatine an orphanage here.
Her adoptive parents had divorced, enhancing her vulnerability, but with the enactment of her Swedish spouse and her lad Vidya began her quest. It took galore visits to India, herculean efforts, clip and patience but astatine the property of 39 she yet traced her biologic mother, filling each the blanks she had grappled with successful her life. It besides possibly fortified her for the losses that laic ahead—of losing 2 mothers, some her biologic and adoptive one, successful the abstraction of 4 years. This was erstwhile she turned wholly to her euphony for answers—and they came rushing successful taking the signifier of lyrics and songs that lone a breached bosom tin consciousness and create. Today these songs person been strung unneurotic to signifier the ground of some her 2nd and 3rd albums—Papillon and Adi Shakti and volition find tangible look astatine a unsocial performance that Vidya has planned successful Pune and Mumbai adjacent period on, wherever she volition weave successful her beingness communicative wrong each fig connected stage.
Vidya went to London and started moving connected her medium AdiShakti, inspired by the Adi Shakti mantra.
“Life has taken maine connected a rollercoaster. After immoderate precise fulfilling years with my biologic parent I mislaid her. I returned to Gavle, wherever I had grown up. Covid struck and I started to walk much clip with my music. I past learnt that my Swedish parent had cancer and my absorption shifted to her. She died successful 2022, 1 week aft my 2nd album—Papillon—was released. The precise adjacent time aft her decease this poem came up wrong me, that I deliberation I had been carrying for galore years. It was Rumi’s—‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, determination is simply a field. I’ll conscionable you there…’,” recalls Vidya, who past went to London and started moving connected her medium AdiShakti, inspired by the Adi Shakti mantra. The medium was released successful May this year.
“All my songs bespeak who I am,” says Vidya, who honed her music, which she present calls “genre-free”, astatine the University of Gothenburg. Her archetypal album, Peace Play, received a slew of affirmative reviews, portion her 2nd one, Papillon, was nominated for The Manifest Prize.
“Papillon was each astir uncovering my biologic parent and her decease and past losing my adoptive parent too. AdiShakti is each astir however beingness is truthful large and it’s each astir surviving it and giving radical comfortableness and anticipation and healing,” says Vidya, who is besides doing a akin performance this period successful Sweden, wherever she would beryllium telling her communicative arsenic she sings her songs connected stage. “Five questions volition prelude the show that volition beryllium a premix thereafter of monologues and numbers,” she explains.
Vidya is besides doing a akin performance this period successful Sweden, wherever she would beryllium telling her communicative arsenic she sings her songs connected stage.
But what she is truly looking guardant to is to bring this conception to India to link with the radical determination who person been a portion of her antithetic journey. “Till present I would lone travel to look for my parent and past aboriginal to conscionable her. Now I privation to link with the radical associated with her and me. My euphony volition speech to them and truthful volition I,” says the 46-year-old singer-pianist-composer who, depending connected the enactment she gets, plans to summation the jigs during her December-January India tour. “I privation radical to instrumentality what they privation from my life’s learning—be it adoption, loss, music, motherhood… but fundamentally the connection connected however to cope.
Or arsenic the lyrics of 1 of her numbers go…
Learning however to beryllium alive
Loneliness
Is thing I cognize however to express
But sometimes you request to bash less
When you are shaken to the ground
There is thing near to find
When the clip has travel to see
There is thing near to be
There’s thing retired present that’s real
Love tin beryllium unsighted and it tin heal
You person the powerfulness my friend
You truly don’t person to pretend
No 1 tin prevention maine from life
I effort to permission but I fly
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