Siddhartha Khosla

Right, right. So a bouzouki is a Greek instrument, but I'm using it and the acoustic guitar, you're right. There's a lot of sort of Indian influence in the music. And- Back to sort of like my story, when my parents came here in the late 70s, I was born soon after they got here. And at that time, I think they brought like $8 with them to the U.S. Are you serious?

That's all they had coming to this country. There was no foreign currency reserve at the time. It's pre-Reagan. Whole other thing, but no foreign currency reserve. And so there was only like a finite amount of rupees you could exchange for dollars before coming to the U.S. Wow. So they came here with $8 on scholarships. I was born.

That's all they had coming to this country. There was no foreign currency reserve at the time. It's pre-Reagan. Whole other thing, but no foreign currency reserve. And so there was only like a finite amount of rupees you could exchange for dollars before coming to the U.S. Wow. So they came here with $8 on scholarships. I was born.

That's all they had coming to this country. There was no foreign currency reserve at the time. It's pre-Reagan. Whole other thing, but no foreign currency reserve. And so there was only like a finite amount of rupees you could exchange for dollars before coming to the U.S. Wow. So they came here with $8 on scholarships. I was born.

They sent me back to India to be raised by my grandparents for the first few years of my life. Oh, wow. A couple years, two, three years. And so I grew up listening to like old Hindi music. that my grandparents would play for me. That's all I listened to. Then my mom would send, and this will move into this other thing later, but my mom would send cassette tapes

They sent me back to India to be raised by my grandparents for the first few years of my life. Oh, wow. A couple years, two, three years. And so I grew up listening to like old Hindi music. that my grandparents would play for me. That's all I listened to. Then my mom would send, and this will move into this other thing later, but my mom would send cassette tapes

They sent me back to India to be raised by my grandparents for the first few years of my life. Oh, wow. A couple years, two, three years. And so I grew up listening to like old Hindi music. that my grandparents would play for me. That's all I listened to. Then my mom would send, and this will move into this other thing later, but my mom would send cassette tapes

with her voice on it to me in India for me to hear her voice, for her to sing me lullabies, tell me she loved me, she missed me, all that, right? Because it was $24 a minute to make a long distance phone call.

with her voice on it to me in India for me to hear her voice, for her to sing me lullabies, tell me she loved me, she missed me, all that, right? Because it was $24 a minute to make a long distance phone call.

with her voice on it to me in India for me to hear her voice, for her to sing me lullabies, tell me she loved me, she missed me, all that, right? Because it was $24 a minute to make a long distance phone call.

That's what it was. And if you talked, it'd be like, hello, hello, hello, hello. You'd hear like an echo go on forever. It was the worst phone calls. So I was, I had my mom singing me These old little lullabies, old Hindi lullabies on these cassette tapes. And I would hear all this stuff. And so my...

That's what it was. And if you talked, it'd be like, hello, hello, hello, hello. You'd hear like an echo go on forever. It was the worst phone calls. So I was, I had my mom singing me These old little lullabies, old Hindi lullabies on these cassette tapes. And I would hear all this stuff. And so my...

That's what it was. And if you talked, it'd be like, hello, hello, hello, hello. You'd hear like an echo go on forever. It was the worst phone calls. So I was, I had my mom singing me These old little lullabies, old Hindi lullabies on these cassette tapes. And I would hear all this stuff. And so my...

Musical DNA was sort of being formulated at that time between old Hindi music and people, and my parents who are now in the West, I'm in the East, reversed, sending their music to me and me learning that way. So In My Blood is this... It's there, that Indian music.

Musical DNA was sort of being formulated at that time between old Hindi music and people, and my parents who are now in the West, I'm in the East, reversed, sending their music to me and me learning that way. So In My Blood is this... It's there, that Indian music.

Musical DNA was sort of being formulated at that time between old Hindi music and people, and my parents who are now in the West, I'm in the East, reversed, sending their music to me and me learning that way. So In My Blood is this... It's there, that Indian music.

When I got back to the States, I started singing when I got back to the States more. But as a kid, I was exposed to all this music. And I don't... And in my band, there's hints of the sort of Indian influence in the music. Because then I grew up in the U.S. And then I loved R.E.M. and The Beatles and The Police and The Cure and The Smiths and Depeche Mode and, you know, and.

When I got back to the States, I started singing when I got back to the States more. But as a kid, I was exposed to all this music. And I don't... And in my band, there's hints of the sort of Indian influence in the music. Because then I grew up in the U.S. And then I loved R.E.M. and The Beatles and The Police and The Cure and The Smiths and Depeche Mode and, you know, and.

When I got back to the States, I started singing when I got back to the States more. But as a kid, I was exposed to all this music. And I don't... And in my band, there's hints of the sort of Indian influence in the music. Because then I grew up in the U.S. And then I loved R.E.M. and The Beatles and The Police and The Cure and The Smiths and Depeche Mode and, you know, and.

And then I also had this love for Indian music. And I grew up singing Indian music. My mom would be like, every Sunday we'd go to temple. And on the night before, she would write these lyrics out. And she's like, you're going to sing this song in front of 100 aunties and uncles in temple tomorrow.