SINGER | SONGWRITER | COMPOSER

credits and collaborators include:

sesame street (Hbo max)

daughters of destiny (netflix)

oscar award winners a.r rahman

vanessa roth

u2

and many more

My story

RIANJALI IS A NY BORN, LOS ANGELES BASED SINGER-SONGWRITER, AND COMPOSER WHO LIVES AT THE INTERSECTION OF TWO WORLDS. GROWING UP IN QUEENS WITH A FOUNDATION IN INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AT HOME BUT BLASTING NAS, WHITNEY HOUSTON, GUNS N’ ROSES, *NSYNC, SUM 41 (TO NAME A FEW) OUTSIDE OF IT, SHE STRADDLED TWO WORLDS SECRETLY.

MUSIC WASN’T THE PLAN: WITH NO FORMAL TRAINING, IT WAS THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC TEACHER THAT LED HER TO AUDITION AND ATTEND THE PRESTIGIOUS LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS. STILL, AFTER EARNING HER MASTERS IN CLINICAL PSYCH SHE STEPPED INTO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASEWORK,ONLY CONTINUING SINGING AND SONGWRITING ON THE SIDE. BUT EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN OSCAR-AWARD WINNING A.R. RAHMAN DISCOVERED HER SONGS AND BROUGHT HER INTO HIS ORBIT.

SINCE THEN, RIANJALI HAS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED WITH GLOBAL ICONS LIKE U2, BISHOP BRIGGS, AND SHAWN MENDES JOINING MENDES’S BAND AT THE VICTORIA’S SECRET FASHION SHOW AND CO-WRITING AHIMSA FOR U2’S JOSHUA TREE TOUR. HER CREDITS INCLUDE RAHMAN’S LE MUSK (CANNES 2022) AND HARMONY (AMAZON PRIME), THE AWARD-WINNING NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY DAUGHTERS OF DESTINY, SONGS FOR BLINDED BY THE LIGHT (GURINDER CHADHA) ANDLOVE SONIA(AMAZON PRIME), AND SCORING ACCLAIMED FESTIVAL FILMS LIKE SEEING GOD (BEST DOCUMENTARY, SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF AMERICA) AND SALTWATER. SHE HAS SINCE SCORED OVER 30 FILMS, INCLUDING NEW WORK WITH OSCAR AWARD WINNING VANESSA ROTH AND MUSIC FOR SESAME STREET ON HBO MAX. SHE RECENTLY SCORED MUSIC FOR THE CLASSIC SESAME STREET, ON HBO MAX. RIANJALI ALSO SERVES AS THE PRISON AND JUSTICE INITIATIVE’S OFFICIAL MUSIC PARTNER, CREATING MUSIC FOR 15-20 DOCUMENTARIES A YEAR FOR THE WRONGFULLY INCARCERATED ACROSS PRINCETON, NYU, GEORGETOWN AND MORE.

HER TRUE EDUCATION CAME FROM AN INSTINCTIVE EAR ONE THAT SHAPED HER SIGNATURE POP SENSIBILITY AND NOW DRIVES HER APPROACH TO COMPOSING FOR FILM, TV, AND IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING.

RIANJALI STAYS ROOTED IN THE SAME MISSION: TO CREATE HONEST MUSIC THAT CROSSES BORDERS AND TO REMIND OTHERS WHO FEEL CAUGHT BETWEEN WORLDS THAT THOSE WORLDS CAN LIVE IN ONE VOICE.