JioSaavn, India’s largest music and audio entertainment streaming service, is announcing its initiative to keep live music, and artists’ incomes, alive. For the month of April, and possibly longer, a series of independent artists will take to the virtual stage for 20 or 30-minute performances on JioSaavn’s Instagram Live. The audio recording of each session will then be hosted as an album for streaming within the JioSaavn app. 100% of the revenue generated from these streams will go directly to the artist.

She started singing on the radio stations during the young age of six, gave her first stage performance at eight and leant classical music at ten. We are talking about Shashaa Tirupati, the Indo-Canadian singer who is already a phenomenon in the film industries down South and now she is making her mark in Bollywood. Popularly known as the ‘Humma Humma’ girl, Shashaa is a multilingual playback singer, songwriter and voice over artist. Music was in the veins of Shashaa who learnt classical singing from Late Mrs. Kamala Bose and Girija Devi. She became the first RedFM Idol, a talent hunt held by one of Vancouver's leading radio channels, in 2005. She went on to judge the same competition in July 2016. An MBA in Marketing Shashaa is pursuing her second Masters from the Symbiosis College, Pune. Shashaa made her debut in Bollywood as playback singer in 2010 film ‘Bumm Bumm Bole’. In the past several years Shashaa has sung in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Arabic and English languages.The young singer who sang in ‘Mohenjodaro’ and ‘Sarabjit’ was noticed by musical legend A R Rahman during Coke Studio Season 3. This was a turning point in her life. After that there has been no looking back. Shashaa sang for A R Rahman in films like ‘Kochadaiiyaan’, ‘Kaaviyathalaivan’, ‘OK Kanmani’ and many more. Not only films, Shashaa also an important part of Rahman’s group which performs all over the world.

 Apart from this, Shashaa has also been featured in MTV Unplugged Season 4 with music director Mithoon and playback singer Mohammad Irfan. She not only sings but also plays the African instrument, the Kazoo besides playing the classical guitar and harmonium.

 The multi-talented singer won the Mirchi Music Award for Best Upcoming Female Singer 2015 (Aye Mr. Minor) and Best Female Playback singer at Vikatan Awards for ‘Naane Varugiren’ song. Shashaa has recently bagged The National Award for the best singer this year for her Tamil song "Vaan". 

 When it comes to humanitarian efforts, Shashaa is extremely active with CANFAR - The Canadian Foundation of AIDS Research, for which she organized several fundraisers. She keeps on performing at charitable events abroad for the causes which are close to her heart. She has also been involved in a lot of Independent work. Shashaa has released a lot of her original Indie music singles like Oceans Rained and String Of Air in English, Beeparwahi, Hum Kahan Hai in Hindi and a bilingual song in collaboration Chinmayi Sripada called Yuzhudhu Vaa.Lately Shashaa has had 2 releases in Rahman Sir's 99 Songs. The solo song is called "Soja Soja" and a duet called O Humnava.As she proves her mantle in Indian music industry, Shashaa seems to be enjoying each and every bit of her musical journey. Some of the few songs that Shashaa has sung recently are

- Humma Humma

- Phir Bhi Tumko Chahunga

- Baarish

- Chal Kahin Door- MOM

- O Sona tere Liye:- MOM

- Kanha

- Mechanicle Sundariye:- Robot2.0

-Motorcycle- Lust Stories

- Mono Beena - Gold

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