Ganavya

Ganavya Doraiswamy (born 1991), known mononymously as ganavya, is an Indian and American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released four albums, most recently Nilam in 2025. Ganavya has collaborated with Quincy Jones, Nils Frahm, Esperanza Spalding, Immanuel Wilkins, A.R. Rahman, Charles Lloyd, Alfredo Rodríguez, Shabaka Hutchings, Joy Harjo, and Lauren Groff. She is a solo vocalist on multiple Grammy-award winning tracks, notably for Songwrights Apothecary Lab, for which she helped create a lab by the same name at Harvard led by Spalding, and for having written and sung the first Tamil lyrics to win a Latin Grammy for Residente's "Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe". She has a longstanding collaborative relationship with Peter Sellars, most recently having co-created an opera titled Nine Jewelled Deer with set design by Julie Mehretu.