Shreya Ghoshal Joins Recording Academy As A Grammy Voting Member
Shreya Ghoshal will now vote in the rounds that decide Grammy nominations, as her Unstoppable tour gets ready to open its India leg in Bengaluru on 22 November.
Shreya Ghoshal is now a voting member of the Recording Academy, the body behind the Grammy Awards. She announced it on 19 October, in the middle of the American run of her Unstoppable tour.
Voting members take part in the two rounds that come before the nominations are announced, choosing the recordings they think should make the list. Ghoshal now has a say in that process, from the first round onwards.
In her words
"Music has taken me to places I could have only dreamed of when I first started singing, and I feel incredibly grateful for the journey it has been," she said. "To now be part of the Recording Academy's voting community is a special moment for me."
"Coming from India, where music is so deeply woven into our lives and culture, I feel proud to bring that perspective to this platform," she said.
She began recording at 12, in 1996, and sang her first film song in 2002, for Devdas. Her tour promoter calls her the most-streamed Indian female artist. On Spotify she has more than 50 million monthly listeners, by her tour promoter's count.
The South Asian panel
The membership came soon after Ghoshal sat on a South Asian panel organised by the Academy. With her were Lara Raj of the girl group KATSEYE, the singer Sameer Gadhia, and the musician and composer Raashi Kulkarni.
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Lara Raj plays Weverse Con Festival India in Delhi next March, and KATSEYE headline Lollapalooza India in Mumbai in January, so two of the four panellists have Indian dates coming up.
Back home
The India leg of the tour runs across 14 cities, presented by BAE (Before Anyone Else). It opens at District Arena @ Terraform in Yelahanka, Bengaluru, at 6 pm on 22 November. Guwahati follows on 19 December and Kolkata on 26 December, then Bhubaneswar, Vizag and Jaipur in January, Delhi, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad in February, and Kochi, Pune and Chennai in March, and the run ends in Indore on 3 April 2027, with Mumbai on 27 March. The setlist on the ticket page includes "Kalyani (Remix)", "Samjhawan" and "Vaaroon Forever", from Mirzapur: The Movie.
Tickets are on District.
(Source: Shreya Ghoshal statement, IANS, District tour listing)
