SINJINI GHOSH
A force to reckon with in every way , Madame Gandhi is as cool off stage as on . Glasses off , she ’ s all warm smiles and powerful positive vibes , and we were lucky to catch her right in the middle of her India Tour at a special performance at The Humming Tree .
Starting off , you happen to be touring India for the first time right now ! How has this been going for you ?
As an artist , one thing I have been really working on this year is to be able to be comfortable in all sorts of really different environments . When I first started performing two years ago , I would find it difficult to perform in very stripped down settings , say its day time for example , or to be opening for someone else , or if I were to be performing on a huge stage with say a barrier between me and the audience because I need to be really connected to my audience . In India , I have been figuring out how to do that in all settings and still perform , deliver joy to my audience- and I can say I ’ m really proud , because all the shows have been going so so well .
Delhi , Kolkata and Pune later , you are halfway through your run . Out of all your shows , which one do you think was your favourite ?
Honestly , all three of those shows went so well , and were all so different from each other !
Does being on the road whilst on tour offer a lot of inspiration to you as an artist ? Has it not been really tiring ?
Oh yeah there ’ s so much inspiration on the road . I have also found ways to manage my energy , as in if there ’ s a party at 3 in the morning , I ’ m not interested in that- I ’ m interested in going to bed at 11 , so that when I get on a plane the next day and meet the people of that city in a great energetic mood , I always find that those extra hours of sleep were worth it . You learn that really , to get sleep , honour your body , eat right and clean , drink water- I really like to bring this joyful energy to the spaces I am in . Especially when people expect you to pull up moody , tired or jetlagged , and I am out here like “ Oh great ! This is amazing !” genuinely , I am glad I have learnt how to manage my vibe , and how to operate at my highest vibration of self on this tour .
So at Weekender and your other shows in India , the response has been wild with the crowd roaring The Future is Female right with you . That kind of positive response , energy , from the crowd- does that alter how you perform the next time ?
That ’ s a great question , because as a performer it ’ s actually a mistake to make to assume that if you have had one good show you are at your prime and you ’ re going to do better the next . If I have one good show I ’ m actually a little apprehensive about the next one . I have been reading a lot about this as well- detachmentand whatever happens in one good show , what made it good , belongs to that moment and that group of people , and that sound team , and outfit and that vibe . So that ’ s what you take from that one show . I can ’ t assume that India loves me because they sang along to that one song , or the next show is going to be great . For example in Calcutta , I was performing in a big open ground and no one was listening initially , I had to pull
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