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- Lykanthea
Even after taking Carnatic vocal lessons for a decade during childhood, Lakshmi Ramgopal didn’t really start to think of herself as a singer until she found herself on an isolated island off the coast of Greece. She was visiting Delos to do research for her dissertation when, with no Internet or phone service, she started singing into her laptop microphone to pass the time. “Being on this little island surrounded by the sea caused me to approach songwriting in this way that I’ve never approached it,” she says. “I’d have a lyric and a small piece of melody, and I started singing and slowly adding more droning tones. The effect had this distant beauty to it that I had never heard coming out of my own voice. I realized, okay, this is something that is potentially really exciting. It was this sense of relief that I could actually create something on my own that I might like.”
