The creator and musician has surprised global audiences with Australian accents, mashups and Marathi songs Singer, actor and content creator Sai Godbole. Photo: Courtesy of the artist When she was eight years old, singer, actor and content creator Sai Godbole began her Indian classical training. It may have seemed like an obvious step considering she’s the granddaughter of singer Jaywant Kulkarni and comes from a family of actors and musicians, but Godbole says it wasn’t that straightforward.
“When we’re young, we want to sing English and Bollywood songs and that’s what I wanted to do. But then my parents were like, ‘You’ve got to do classical [training],’” Godbole says. It formed the foundation of Godbole’s musical prowess, which has about half a million fans on and 23,000 .
It’s not just about music for the artist, though – her most watched content often has her showing off multilingual chops, whether it’s running through a variety of languages or singing songs in specific accents. Wordplay is another major strength, which led her to meet American earlier this year to show him her own song, . Godbole’s proclivity towards multiple languages and accents came from when she began singing English and Bollywood songs.
“There was something that was differentiating the way I sound with the way they sound. And I was like, ‘What is it?’ And then I realized it was the accent,” she says. The British and American accents came easy, but Godbole conside.
