She also reaches out to listeners on her website and CHENNAI: Can we think of a song set in Bhupala Raagam? Yes, maybe we can. Sujatha and her ever supportive husband Selwyn who handles her social media presence also have an online radio for the past seven years. The song which was penned by Sujatha incorporates lyrics in English, Tamil, Hindi and Swahili - a language she picked up during her father’s brief tenure in Tanzania. Her new album has 11 tracks including an independently released anthem called Arise sung by popular vocalists Nikhil Matthew and NS Ramya among others. Sometimes I run into covers of my songs on YouTube, its an amazing feeling,” says the singer, whose growing popularity is making her consider touring Internationally in the near future. The new album sees a medley of a wide variety of genres like folk, jazz, hindustani and many more, which she feels stands out as a unique feature of the album. With the help of musician J J Ruban, she has now released this third edition to the Nenjamae series, which are a set of Tamil devotional songs set to different themes. “If not for my carnatic base, I don’t think all this is possible,” she adds. The sight of a scripture verse sets a carnatic tune in her mind and that instinctively has helped her explore interesting avenues. Years later she found herself on the same stage when she had married and moved to New Zealand.

As a teenager, Sujatha embraced Christianity to cope with her struggles and found herself in the church choir.

She recounts how her musically- oriented father used to scrawl down lyrics to songs in the back of bus tickets. Music was never far from her, growing up in a household of carnatic singers. “I never wanted to miss even a single class,” she recalls. Born into an Iyengar household, Sujatha took to carnatic music like a moth to flame.

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