Sunshine Through Speakers
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At ten years old, Raveena Aurora revealed her knack
for singing in a school talent show during her rendition of
Disney Pocahontas’ “Colors of The Wind.” “At that moment,
my parents found out I could sing. Before that, they had no
idea,” Raveena says. The indie/folk singer-songwriter has
been painting with all the colors of the wind since—studying,
performing, and ever-evolving.
The Massachusetts-born and Connecticut-raised musician got her start by attending singing lessons, studying
classical voice, and participating in theatre from a young
age. Her musical education persists; now, a second year student at the Cline Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New
York’s prestigious New York University, Raveena has made
the transition to the Big Apple to pursue her music career
and, she jokingly adds, “go to school on the side.”
Raveena’s education seems more like a partner to her
musical career than a fallback to it; her book smarts can
help to fuel her musical engine. She understands the facets
to improve, and hopes to play with lighting, set design, and
venues that are more personally suited to her folksy sound.
Raveena also recognizes the abundance of young repetitive-sounding artists in New York struggling to make it
in the music industry. She “would definitely like to broaden
[her] live shows into something more defined and make it
an experience for the audience, rather than just [be] another singer-songwriter with her guitar, playing another song
about heartbreak with arpeggiated chords and well-placed
riffs.” Fortunately enough, with an education grounded in
performance entrepreneurship, she may have just the right
tools to turn the volume up on her career.
Her songwriting capacity also gives her notable edge
over the dime-a-dozen acoustic artists that permeate the
urban playground that is New York. “I like to think of my
songs as picture frames from different moments of my life- I
try to capture specific det