Name: Santhosam
Brand: Priya Ragu

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5054197356629

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Black

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Limited edition

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2023-10-20

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Warner Music Group

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5054197356636

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5054197356650

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Priya Ragu

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Warner

Priya Ragu is a Tamil-Swiss singer and songwriter based in the United Kingdom. Born to Sri Lankan-Tamil parents in Switzerland, Priya's family fled Sri Lanka during the civil conflict in the 1980s.

Warner is a renowned music publishing company and a division of the Warner Music Group. With its origins dating back to 1811, when Chappell & Company was founded as a music publishing company and instrument shop in London's Bond Street, Warner/Chappell has grown to become one of the largest music publishers in the industry.

Established in 1987 after Warner Communications acquired Chappell & Co., Warner/Chappell boasts an impressive catalog of over one million songs and represents more than 65,000 talented songwriters. Having operated under the name Warner/Chappell Music for over three decades, the company recently rebranded itself as *Warner Chappell Music* in May 2019, unveiling a fresh new logo.

With various name variations such as *Warner/Chappell*, *Warner-Chappell*, *Warner Chapell*, and *Warner Chappel*, this label continues to make significant contributions to the music industry by nurturing and promoting exceptional talent worldwide.

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The rising Tamil-Swiss artist Priya Ragu releases her long-awaited debut album Santhosam.

Santhosam&nbsp;(the Tamil word for ‘happiness’) is a standout dynamic album which takes her raguwavy sound –simmering R&amp;B, masterful pop hooks, earthy soulful vocals, dance beats, and the warm tabla rhythms, and spiralling melodics of Tamil music – to even more adventurous heights. Defined by Priya’s contagiously positive spirit, it pulsates with gorgeously varied musical textures and urgent political themes. Once again crafted in collaboration with her brother and producer Japhna Gold, it’s an album that originates from Priya’s quest for self-discovery.

Santhosam&nbsp;opens with ‘Ammama’s Note’, which features a voice recording in which Priya’s grandmothers is questioning why she isn’t married. Like many young South Asian women, Priya felt like she wanted to achieve much more before she settled down, regardless of other people’s preconceptions of what direction her life should take. That ability to write one’s own destiny continues the euphoric ‘School Me Like That’, set to a rumbling tambla beat and breezy synths. More universal issues are explored in the blazing anger of ‘Black Goose’, which was written in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, and ‘Let Me Breathe (Reprise)’, a spiritual call for freedom, emancipation, and peace.

Elsewhere, the record brims with highlight-after-highlight, taking in everything from the dancefloor disco energy of ‘One Way Ticket’ to ‘Power’ which features a rousing string arrangement that was written by Indian composer Bala and recorded with an orchestra in Budapest. It closes with ‘Mani Osai’, a song which continues a yearly family tradition in which Priya, Japhna and their father write a song together. Never intended to be a Priya Ragu track, it nonetheless felt like the perfect way to close the album – especially as the concluding&nbsp;“santhosam”&nbsp;chant conveys the meaning of the word with life-affirming zest.

Santhosam

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Discover Santhosam by Priya Ragu. The rising Tamil-Swiss artist's long-awaited debut album takes her raguwavy sound to adventurous heights. Label: Warner.