 
India.Arie was named as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi
and was born in Colorado. Throughout her childhood,
India.Arie was interested in music learning how to
play the saxophone, clarinet and other instruments,
and sang in choirs. The love of learning music and
encouragement to sing led to India.Arie learning
guitar while at the Savannah College of Art and
Design. India's first music release came in the form
of a compilation of independent artists - EarthShare.
India performed a few dates at the Lilith Fair
package tour which led to a record contract with
Motown.
India could be heard on the soundtrack for Bamboozled with several tracks.
 # 164
Singles Artist of the Year
India released her debut LP - Acoustic
Soul.
Acoustic
Soul was
certified gold.
India was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for the MTV2 Award ("Video").
India hit the Top 40 helping out John Mellencamp with "Peaceful World" from Mellencamp's Cuttin'
Heads.
Acoustic
Soul was
certified platinum.
 # 50
Singles Artist of the Year
India was nominated for 7 Grammy Awards - Album of the Year and Best R&B Album (Acoustic
Soul), Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Vocal Performance
- Female, and Best R&B Song (awarded to
the songwriter) ("Video"), and Best New Artist - but went home empty-handed.
India hit the Top 40 with "Video."
India hit the Top 10 with "Video."
India won a BET Award for Best Female R&B Artist.
India released her next LP, Voyage
To India,
with the first single, "Little Things."
Another track on the LP, "Good Man," had
appeared on the We
Were Soldiers soundtrack and India performed the tune
at the 9-11 memorial concert. India said of the song:
"It’s one of those songs that finds it own
way. We
Were Soldiers was 50% about the families and
what goes on at home during the war, and the other
50% was what goes on on the battlefield. The song is
about what it means to lose a loved one, the effect
it can have on children and the person who’s
left behind. It sounds like it’s directly
related to September 11 but I didn’t really have
the nerve to sit down and write a song for September
11. That song just found its own way."
Voyage
To India
topped the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
chart.
Voyage
To India
was certified gold.
India was nominated for a Soul Train Music
Award for Female R&B/Soul Single ("Little
Things").
India portrayed Nina Simone
on the NBC series American
Dreams.
India won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Urban / Alternative Performance ("Little Things")
and Best R&B Album (Voyage
To India)
and was also nominated for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("The Christmas
Song" with Stevie Wonder).
India could be heard on the tribute compilation - Conceptions:
Musical Tribute To Stevie Wonder - with "Wonderful."
India could be heard on the soundtrack for American
Dreams
with "Come Ye."
India won a BET Award for Best Female R&B Artist.
Acoustic
Soul was
certified 2x platinum.
India could be heard on the soundtrack for Shark
Tale with
"Get It Together."
India could be heard on the soundtrack for Diary
Of A Mad Black Woman with the track "Purify Me."
India was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("A Time To Love"
with Stevie Wonder from Wonder's LP, A
Time To Love).
India could be heard on Sergio Mendes' Timeless.
India released her next LP Testimony:
Vol. 1, Life & Relationships.
India topped the Billboard 200 LP chart and Top
R&B/Hip-Hop LP chart with Testimony:
Vol. 1, Life & Relationships - selling over 161,000 copies
in the US its first week of release.
India was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards for Best R&B Vocal Performance - Female and Best R&B Song (with Drew
Ramsey and Shannon Sanders) (awarded to the
songwriter) ("I
Am Not My Hair"). and Best R&B Album (Testimony:
Vol. 1, Life & Relationships).
India was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song (awarded to
the songwriter) ("Beautiful Flower" with
Joyce Simpson).
India could be heard on the soundtrack for Sex
& The City on the track "The Heart Of The
Matter."
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Acoustic
Soul
Released: March, 2001
US:
2x Platinum
Billboard peak: # 10
Tracks: "Video" - "Promises" -
"Brown Skin" - "Strength, Courage
& Wisdom" - "Nature" -
"Back To The Middle" - "Ready For
Love" - "Always In My Head" -
"I See God In You" - "Simple"
- "Part Of My Life" -
"Beautiful" |
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Voyage
To India
Released: September, 2002
US:
Gold
Billboard peak: # 6
Tracks: "Growth" - "Little
Things" - "Talk To Her" -
"Slow Down" - "The Truth" -
"Beautiful Surprise" -
"Healing" - "Get It Together"
- "Headed In The Right Direction" -
"Can I Walk With You" - "The
One" - "Complicated Melody" -
"Gratitude" - "Good Man" -
"God Is Real" - "Interested" |
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Testimony:
Vol. 1, Life & Relationships
Released: June, 2006
Billboard peak: # 1
Rolling Stone:  - Entertainment
Weekly: B
Tracks: "Loving" (Intro) -
"These Eyes" - "Heart Of The
Matter" - "Good Morning" -
"Private Party" - "There's
Hope" - "Living" (Interlude) -
"India's Song" - "Wings Of
Forgiveness" - "Summer" - "I
Am Not My Hair" - "Great
Grandmother" (Interlude) - "Better
People" - "Learning" (Outro) -
"I Choose" |
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links lead you to the song's Top 40 chart run
(from the ARC Weekly Top 40) and LP links take you to Amazon.com's page for that LP (often
including track listings and sound samples). |
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