NATANIA WROTE HER WAY INTO THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ROOMS

India's quietest songwriter just went global

- MANASVI POTE

The first time Natania wrote a song, she was 15 and heartbroken. “The rest is history,” she says now with a smile. Growing up in Mumbai, music wasn’t just in the background, it was part of the air. Her mother loved to sing around the house. There were always songs playing, whether it was Celine Dion, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel or old Bollywood gems written by Gulzar. “I had my headphones on all the time,” she says. But even then, she probably couldn’t have imagined that one day, her voice would echo alongside Cardi B and DJ Khaled on a Smurfs movie soundtrack.

She remembers one specific moment when the obsession quietly shifted into something more serious. “That first heartbreak at 15? It was intense. And the only way I could process it was by writing about it,” she says. “I wrote a song and that was it. I didn’t stop after that.”