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I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.