Social Media Star of The Week: Kamakshi Khanna

For being the first Indian indie musician going the Jacob Collier way, going viral and starting a trend that other musicians are following

“I completely stole Jacob Collier’s idea for this Reels. I thought it was great that he had put out a set of harmonies and you could sing over him,” says Delhi musician Kamakshi Khanna, 28, whose Reels remix of her first original Hindi composition, Qareeb, went viral recently.

Kamakshi provided the backing vocals via harmonies, and left it for the person trying the Reels remix to sing the main lyrics

Kamakshi says collaborating seemed the best way to celebrate her song Qareeb hitting 100k streams on Spotify