9/19/2023 0 Comments Abhi the nomad![]() ![]() Unfortunately, he lost the lottery, and was abruptly shipped to India.īy this time, Abhi was buzzing enough on Spotify & Soundcloud to scrape by in Lille, France. The way the Student Visa worked, it was stipulated that to stay in the country, Abhi needed to graduate Cal Lutheran, find a job in his field of study (which he did), and only then would he be able to enter a lottery that would determine whether he could stay in the U.S. Yet Abhi was reminded of how much we lack true agency over our lives when, despite all that Abhi had built in Thousand Oaks, he was forced out of the country because of immigration laws. He met his now-girlfriend Sarah there, lived an hour out from the entertainment capital of the world in Los Angeles, and even got a job at a recording studio to hold him down while he was building his online following as an artist with popular songs like “Floors” and “Underdog.” Throughout this time he continued adding songs to Marbled, incessantly tweaking and fine tuning his existing selection. Thanks to a Student Visa at Cal Lutheran University, Abhi finally felt like he had a place to call home. Throughout all his travels, he kept a certain set of songs with him, becoming the skeleton for his forthcoming LP Marbled. A list of the places Abhi’s lived reads like a travel blog’s wet dream: Madras, India to Beijing to Hong Kong to New Delhi back to Beijing back to New Delhi to the Fiji Islands to New Delhi again before arriving in Thousand Oaks, California. Because of his dad’s job, his family moved 8 different times in 18 years before he finally achieved enough autonomy during his college years to settle down in Thousand Oaks, California. This is amplified even more when we’re kids, at the mercy of our parents’ decisions.Įver since he was born, Abhi has had to pack up and move against his will, necessitating “The Nomad” modifier that adorns his name. The human experience is marked by a seemingly futile desire to exert control over a world that is almost entirely out of our hands. ![]()
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