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Mallipoo and The Alwas are an Indie Tamil band whose self-proclaimed genre is “singable Tamil melodies”. The combination of carnatic trained Suren Vikas’ original tunes with Sofia Ashraf’s tamil rap makes for a unique new sound.
Their songs cover topics ranging from farmers’ issues and consumerism to being jobless millennials.
Sofia Ashraf has been given many labels - Burqa Rapper, Activist, Rebel. But she considers herself simply a Content Creator. She was the co-founder of Muslim Youth Culture and the co-founder of Madras Jam Association. She has rapped for the likes of Grammy Award winning music composer - A.R. Rahman. At the age of 22 she gave up her traditional Islamic beliefs and set out to discover her own set of ideals. At the age of 23, she moved to Mumbai on a journey of self-actualization and the rest has been history.
She has been creating songs about social issues since 2008 through the platform of Justice Rocks. She has written songs about Industrial Pollution, Moral Policing, Tamil Nadu’s Power Deficit and the like. She was recently in the news for her protest video about the mercury poisoning in Kodaikanal that went viral in August 2015.
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