There’s a certain atmosphere that enters the room when Mary Ann Alexander speaks — the same atmosphere that runs through her music. It’s soft-edged but intentional, vulnerable yet self-assured, like someone who has spent years turning emotional weather into melody. She grew up in Thiruvananthapuram absorbing everything she could get her hands on: Malayalam film songs spinning on radio, Disney soundtracks echoing through childhood, A.R. Rahman’s world-building mastery, and a vast universe of global artists discovered through a screen held inches from her face.

Today, that girl — the one who wandered between cultures and cadences — is making alternative R&B in Bengaluru that feels both unmistakably international and deeply personal. She doesn’t chase trends or scenes; she chases truth, soun

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