Updated On: 24 March, 2025 07:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
Fire in Delhi hitmaker BombayMami, who is a Swiss-Indian artiste, discusses how her Indo-American influences helped her create the track that’s going viral on social media

Bombay Mami
While catering to an audience that is in contrast to their own, an artiste is often forced to question whether putting their own cultural history on a pedestal would work in favour of or against them. That, however, is a fact that did not bother BombayMami, who could explore a bit of every world with her music, because “nobody knew where I was from”.
“The Black community thought I was mixed race, and people from the south American community thought I was one of them,” she says, quick to add in jest, “But, not white people, obviously.” Being “racially ambiguous” implied that the singer was never “put in a box” and could explore “a variety of [genres].”