Singer Jonita Gandhi On How Her Canadian Upbringing Aided Her In Breaking Into Bollywood
etcanada.comBollywood singer Jonita Gandhi, who headlined Toronto’s DesiFest over the weekend, spoke with ET Canada about how growing up in a multi-cultural area near Toronto paved the path for her career in the industry.
Gandhi also discussed how listening to Bollywood music in an Indian household helped her understand the industry. “I think when I was really young, it kind of was that was for me, the golden standard of like where I wanted to be in music.
That’s kind of all I knew growing up,” Gandhi tells Morgan Hoffman. “Ironically, growing up in Canada, I did grow up in a household where we listened to a lot of Bollywood music and a lot of Indian artists were playing around the house.
And there’s this one actress in Bollywood -Madhuri Dixit, and I was in love with her, all of her songs. I used to think she was singing her own songs, but she wasn’t.
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