When it comes to any artform, the details are everything. Now, Tinashe always pays attention to every last detail. Not only does the multi-platinum-certified R&B disruptor sing, write, and dance, but she also produces, mixes, engineers, creative directs, and edits. As a result, she blazes past any and all boundaries. “As an entertainer and a creative person, I feel limitless,” she asserts. “I don’t feel pressure to conform, because I don’t have to. I don’t sit around and wait for opportunities to fall out of the sky either. When I started making music, I took it upon myself to learn how to do everything. There are very few female producers and engineers. I want to represent that you can be part of each step in the process. In the more recent years, it’s been a discovery of all the things I can do. There’s a sense of boundlessness and fearlessness. I really developed my instincts, and I trust them.”

In the two years since releasing Asha’s Awakening, a lot has happened for Raveena: She’s toured internationally, become the first woman of Indian heritage to perform solo at Coachella, and recently completed her Saturn Return—welcoming a season of growth, transformation, and calm that’s central to her newest full-length offering, Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain. As a first-generation descendant of genocide survivors and Reiki healers, the queer Indian American artist has long centered spirituality in her creative process. Muses like Ella Fitzgerald, Sade, and Minnie Riperton helped her find her voice, but creating her own music allowed her to coalesce the Bollywood soundtracks she grew up with and the R&B, pop, and folk she discovered later on into a portal that transports listeners into another realm. Following in the footsteps of classic artists like Fleetwood Mac, Brandy, and Marvin Gaye, Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain draws inspiration from people who “are really good at capturing the beauty and loss of life in the same breath” to create an exploration of eco-futurism and sensuality that merges Indian aesthetics with ethereal fantasy. In her signature style, Raveena seamlessly unites powerful storytelling, traditional Indian instruments, and feel-good early 2000s pop hits like Sheryl Crow’s “Soak Up the Sun” and Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Put Your Records On” to put forth a work that’s more unabashedly herself than any that’s come before.