Ananya Birla
Ananya Birla was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on July 17th, 1994 and is the World Music Singer. At the age of 29, Ananya Birla biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Ananya Birla (born 17 July 1994) is an Indian singer, songwriter, investor, and mental health advocate.
On streaming platforms, her first five albums, "Meant To Be," "Life"," "Finest", "Circles," and "Better" have all hit the 150 million mark.
Ananya is the first Indian artist with an English language single to go platinum. She debuts her debut EP Fingerprint in May 2019 via UMG and Island Records UK.
It contained Vector and Wurld, one of the first collaborations between major artists from India and Nigeria, and Birla is the maker of Svatantra Microfin, a company that provides microfinance to women in rural India.
She is both the founder and co-founder of Mpower and also the founder of CuroCarte.
Birla has been recognized for her contributions and entrepreneurship, including the ET Panache Trendsetters of 2016 award for Young Business Person, and she has been named as one of the Most Influential Indians of 2018. She is also the daughter of Kumar Mangalam Birla, an Indian industrialist and chairman of the Aditya Birla Group.
Early life
Ananyashree Birla began to play the santoor at an early age, and by the time of eleven, she had a keen interest in music. She studied economics and leadership at the University of Oxford for her bachelor's degree, but she dropped out without completing her degree.
Personal life
Ananya Birla is the eldest child of the Birla family's sixth richest Indian, Kumar Mangalam Birla (Chairman of Aditya Birla Group) and Neerja Birla, and the sixth generation scion of the Birla family. Pilani, Rajasthan, is the place of the Birla family's roots.
Career
While at university, Birla started singing and playing the guitar at pubs and clubs. She also began writing her own music. Her debut single, "Livin’ the Life", was co-written, and produced, by JimBeanz (who previously collaborated with Nelly Furtado, Cheryl Tweedy and Demi Lovato) and was recorded and produced at a studio in Philadelphia. A remix by Dutch DJ Afrojack of "Livin’ the Life" makes Birla the first Indian artiste to get a worldwide release through PM:AM Recordings and hit over 14 million views on YouTube as of June 2017. Her songs have been topping the music charts in 2019.
She released her next single "Meant to be" in July 2017 which was subsequently certified Platinum as per the Indian Music Industry (IMI) recognised criteria for certifications. This makes Birla the first Indian artiste with an English single to go platinum. In January 2017, she supported Coldplay at the Global Citizen Festival.
She released her single "Hold On" on 1 March 2018. On 7 June 2018, she released her fourth single "Circles". On 17 January 2019, she released her 5th single and 1st song of 2019 "Better", which was viewed 4 million times on YouTube within 2 days of its release.
She released her debut EP Fingerprint in May 2019, via UMG and Island Records UK. It included "Blackout" featuring Vector and Wurld, which was one of the first collaborations between major artists from India and Nigeria.
In September 2019, she released ‘Day Goes By’ with Sean Kingston, who she met when they toured in India together. The song marked one of the first major pop collaborations between a US and Indian artist. The video has been viewed over 10 million times on YouTube.
In 2020 she signed with Maverick Management in Los Angeles. Later that year, she released “Let There Be Love” and “Everybody's Lost” becoming the first Indian artiste to be featured on an American national top 40 pop radio show, Sirius XM Hits.
She has performed at some of the biggest music events in Asia including Global Citizen, Oktoberfest, and Sunburn, Asia's biggest electronic music festival, and has toured with Wiz Khalifa.
Recently she released a cheering song titled, "Hindustani Way", for the Indian Olympic team with A.R. Rahman.
Birla founded Svatantra Microfin Private Limited at the age of 17. The organisation makes small loans to women entrepreneurs based in rural India. Under her leadership, Svatantra won the Gold Award for Best Start-Up (Skoch Financial Inclusion and Deepening Awards, 2014), Spirituality @ Work: Sach Bharat Samman (Sach Bharat Confluence 2015) and has maintained a quality loan portfolio, offering one of the lowest interest rates in the country.
In 2016, Birla became the founder and CEO of Ikai Asai, an inventory-based global luxury e-Commerce platform. The same year, Forbes named her one of Asia's Women to Watch.