December 27, 2023 11:20 am | Updated 11:20 am ISTTanya Shanker the eighteen-year-old budding singer from Bengaluru, released her latest single Phoenix, a pop-rock ballad about overcoming hurdles and obstacles on December 8. The song is an ode to fighters all across the world and people who turn “tragedies into their muse.”Tanya started singing when she was seven, “I remember singing even as a child. My mum always makes this joke that she used to play music all the time while I was in her womb and that is how she says I fell in love with music.”Her first single Thank You Mum came out in 2019 and garnered over 20k views in a week which helped kickstart her music career. She attributed her success to a chance encounter in 2016 when she met her mentor and manager, Richard Andrew Dudley, the duo has been working together ever since. Tanya remembers the exact moment she knew she wanted to perform for the rest of her life.

Source: The Hindu December 27, 2023 13:18 UTC