1. Raveena Aurora was born on September 30,1993 in Massachusetts to Indian Punjabi immigrants, a businessman father and a fashion designer mother.
30 Facts About Raveena Aurora
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Raveena Aurora moved to Queens, New York City when she was 17 and she would visit India regularly.
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Raveena Aurora stated that her father was interested in Indian Instruments such as the harmonium and tabla and kept them in their house.
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Raveena Aurora studied and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
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Raveena Aurora began auditioning for Broadway musicals but to no success as "there were no roles for little Indian girls".
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Raveena Aurora mentioned that people told her many times that she could not be expected to sign a record deal if she was an Indian woman and said "It's not gonna work".
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When she was 18, Raveena Aurora independently released her first single and music video, "Grey Eyes" on December 4,2012, in YouTube along with her old EP, Where We Wander, which was released independently on February 19,2013.
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Raveena Aurora worked many full-time jobs like nannying and even worked at her first job in American Apparel as a sales associate and saved to spend her money to self-fund her music projects.
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Raveena Aurora directed several of her own music videos where she displayed her Indian heritage and "rich interiority of women of color like herself".
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Raveena Aurora released a bonus track for the EP, "Wherever U Go" on January 12,2018.
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Raveena Aurora performed her 2017 single "If Only" on the global music platform, COLORS, in January 2018, in which her popularity rapidly increased.
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Raveena Aurora was featured alongside other outspoken female musicians like Lizzo, Awkwafina and Hayley Kiyoko.
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On October 23,2018, Raveena Aurora released a new single, "Temptation" and came out as bisexual.
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On May 31,2019, Raveena Aurora released her debut album Lucid, distributed through Empire Distribution.
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On December 9,2019, Raveena Aurora performed a NPR Tiny Desk Concert.
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On February 7,2020, Raveena Aurora released her second four-track EP, Moonstone through Empire Distribution and Moonstone Recordings LLC, her independent label.
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On February 5,2021, Raveena Aurora released a new single and music video, "Tweety".
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Raveena Aurora became the first woman of Indian descent to perform as a solo artist at Coachella Music Festival.
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Raveena Aurora performed at Corona Capital in Mexico City, and she made her India debut and performed at Lollapalooza India in Mumbai, India, on January 29,2023.
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Raveena Aurora was featured on King Krule's track "Seagirl" in his fifth album, Space Heavy and in "Bloom", the tenth track of the deluxe version of Prateek Kuhad's album, The Way That Lovers Do.
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Raveena Aurora served as the opening act for the North American leg for Tinashe's fifth concert tour, Match My Freak: World Tour.
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In February 2025, Raveena Aurora released her new single, "Sun Don't Leave Me".
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Raveena Aurora cites Asha Puthli as one of her greatest inspirations and influences.
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Raveena Aurora grew up listening to Bollywood soundtracks, especially to 70s and 80s music.
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Raveena Aurora grew up listening to Indian musicians Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, R D Burman and Ravi Shankar.
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Raveena Aurora stated that she had always found songwriting to be a form of catharsis and having music as a way to process and reflect on her experiences "saved" her.
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In 2018, Raveena Aurora came out as bisexual through her 2018 single "Temptation".
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Raveena Aurora is a spiritual Sikh as she regularly reads Buddhist, Sikh and Hindu texts.
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In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Raveena Aurora launched a fundraising initiative to support global relief efforts.
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In November 2021, Raveena started the Aurora Loving Kindness Project, a mutual aid hub providing "healing, wellness and investment".