India.Arie

India.Arie (born India Arie Simpson on October 3, 1976 in Denver, Colorado) is an American neo soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

India.Arie learned the transforming power of music early in life, e

India.Arie (born India Arie Simpson on October 3, 1976 in Denver, Colorado) is an American neo soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

India.Arie learned the transforming power of music early in life, encouraged by both parents: her mother, Joyce, herself a former singer, and now India.Arie's stylist; and her father, basketball star Ralph Sampson. She had taken up a succession of musical instruments throughout her schooling in Denver, Colorado, but her discovery of the guitar at college in Savannah, Georgia, led to a personal revelation about songwriting and performing. "When I started tapping into my own sensitivity, I started to understand people better. It was a direct result of writing songs," she said at the press release of her debut album, Acoustic Soul.