Not your regular teenager

Tanya Shanker the eighteen-year-old budding singer from Bengaluru, is set to release 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 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 calls her mum her biggest inspiration behind her first album, “I would always notice the small things that my mum would do for me, and like any curious twelve-year-old I decided to write my first song on my mum.”

Her second single Be Yourself released in the same year is about following one’s passion and not giving in to peer pressure.

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.

She believes that her love for reading and writing has helped shape her music, “I believe when you consume other art, it allows you to be more creative.”

Tanya is also the lead singer for MOKSHA {{All Stars}}, the band for which she performs regularly and has toured many prominent cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Trivandrum and more.