Born in Srinagar, India on December 21, 1989, playback singer, songwriter, voiceover artist, and producer Shashaa Tirupati was raised between India and Canada and cut her teeth singing for local radios in Vancouver aged six. After giving her first stage performance two years later, she began studying Hindustani classical music aged ten, primarily under the tutelage of Kamala Bose in Allahabad. She took the plunge and left school in order to establish herself in Bollywood, where she started working as a playback singer in Mumbai. As well as playing kazoo, western classical guitar, keyboards, and harmonium, she began honing her singing voice on season three of Indian TV program Coke Studio, and caught the attention of Slumdog Millionaire composer A.R. Rahman, stepping up to sing "Vaada Vaada" for 2014 Indian Tamil-language animated 3D action film, Kochadaiiyaan. She went on to put her voice to a range of films in Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, and a host of other languages, winning the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2018, as well as the Filmfare Award for the Tamil song "Vaan Varuvaan" from 2017 Indian Tamil-language romantic war film, Kaatru Veliyidai. In January 2022, she made her independent music foray with the release of her debut single "In My Skin" from her first EP, I'm Sorry, Heart, featuring guitarist Keba Jeremiah.
