Rupa & The April Fishes

Extraordinary Rendition

October 18, 2008

Sail on a magic carpet ride where many languages and musical traditions merge into an exotic, dreamlike sound. Rupa & The April Fishes music echoes French chanson, Argentinean tango, Gypsy swing, American folk, Latin cumbia and Indian ragas. Their lovely pastiche starts with singer/songwriter/doctor Rupa Marya, a Bay Area native who grew up in Punjab, India, and later an Arab neighborhood in Aix-en-Provence, France. Her lyrics – in French, Spanish, English and Hindi -- suggest a world without borders. SF Weekly declared Rupa “an instant cult classic among the smart, idealistic, international set.”

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