In 2009 Pravini decided to literally cross borders and set up her first international tour in the United States where she did 15 shows in 2 months and performed in New York, Miami, Virginia, San Diego and Los Angeles. A year later she was rewarded with the Shakti Award during the Saraswati Festival for her work as a Dutch Indian female artist and her musical contribution to the Dutch Indian community.
A New Sound: Diaspora
By working with several producers from around the world Pravini has been able to release three albums since 2008: PraVision, Roses from Raj and Beyond Borders. But it wasn’t until the beginning of 2010 that Pravini began to find her true sound by gathering her own band. With a drummer and bass player who grew up with Suriname and Indian rhythms and a guitar player who had evolved within rock, Pravini fused these influences with her own hiphop and soul background and created a new sound: Diaspora. Conscious of the fact that she is part of a new East-Indian generation growing up in the West she recognizes this is the sound of the Indian Diaspora.
