India.Arie

What I admire most about India.Arie is her restraint. Coming out of Denver with an art-school background, she debuted with Acoustic Soul and won both critics and the charts without ever resorting to vocal pyrotechnics. She lets a guitar and a calm, grounded voice do the persuading. Her gift is making self-acceptance feel like advice from a friend rather than a sermon, and across albums like Voyage to India and Worthy she has kept that quiet integrity intact. In an industry that rewards volume, I find her stillness genuinely radical and quietly enduring.

Name (English)

India.Arie

Name (Japanese)

インディア・アリー

Reading

いんでぃあ・ありー

Born

October 3, 1975 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rabbit

Origin

Denver, Colorado, United States

Occupation

guitarist / singer / singer-songwriter / composer / record producer

High school

Rangeview High School

University

Savannah College of Art and Design

• Official sitehttp://soulbird.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/indiaarie/
• Xhttps://x.com/indiaarie
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%20Arie
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q258750

Tags

• Colorado
• guitarist
• singer
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.