MEGHNA [ENG translation]: THUNDER, LIGHTNING, BRILLIANCE; THE ONE WHO WALKS ON CLOUDS Meghna is a musical force to be reckoned with. Singing since she could talk, and eventually writing and releasing her first song “Lost” at 12, Meghna always knew music was her calling. The first few songs Meghna wrote and recorded in her formative years followed a pattern; they were all about human rights and the human condition. This is exemplified early on in her second song released at 14, “Mountain”— about children living in poverty in India, drawing from what she had observed on trips to India, and from her family’s experience. Slowly building up in Meghna has been a thunderous passion that will stop you in your tracks: like a thunderbolt of lightning striking, Meghna’s songs illuminate the joys of humanhood, and the deeper flaws. Her sound and message are drawn from a blend of her Tamil and Bengali backgrounds, her growing interest in advocacy as a law and human rights student in Berlin and Melbourne, and her love of Hip-Hop, Rock, and EDM music— musical influences including Queen, Dire Straits, and Rihanna. Meghna has gained acclaim on the live Melbourne scene as a promising young artist with support from tastemakers such as The Guardian, VICE AU, NME, Live Nation’s Ones To Watch, Triple J, MTV and more. Consider the words of The Guardian: “The Melbourne songwriter Meghna inhabits a unique sonic world…marking Meghna as one to watch”— Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, The Guardian