Singer · Songwriter · Creative

Ranjani
Murthy

रंजनी

A voice raised in Bangalore, at home in the San Francisco Bay Area — singing, writing, teaching, and making beautiful things with beautiful people.

The Drawing Room

A story that begins in Bangalore

Ranjani learned to sing the way heirlooms are passed down — at home, from her mother, a gold-medalist Carnatic classical vocalist. The training took: she has shared a stage with the legendary S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, performed within the walls of the Mysore Palace, and carries songs in eight languages — Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil closest to heart.

Today she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the same voice moves between recording studios, wedding stages, fashion sets, and living rooms full of students — a life built on the idea that craft is craft, whatever the medium.

संगीत विरासत है— music is inheritance

Studio portrait of Ranjani Murthy seated in black-and-white silk

The Music Room

As JANIGMA, she writes and records

Her recording project reimagines pop through an Indian lens — original writing, old souls, new arrangements.

Sweet Dreams — official video

Meri Jaan — teaser

The Atelier

Macro detail of a gold nath and chain against warm saffron silk

An eye as trained as the ear

Ranjani consults on makeup and fashion — an eye for color, texture, and the way a look holds light, sharpened through work with global brands. The same instincts that shape a phrase of music shape a face, a silhouette, a frame.

Makeup · Fashion · Brand consulting

The Salon

A gathered room is an instrument too

In Silicon Beach, Ranjani organizes startup events — rooms where founders, builders, and the curious find each other. Hosting, it turns out, is another kind of performance: you set a tone, you read the room, you bring people in.

Startup events · Community · Silicon Beach

Ranjani reclining on a checkerboard floor, holding a vintage brass telephone

The Studio

Black-and-white portrait of Ranjani Murthy wearing a maang tikka

What was given, she gives on

Her mother taught her at home; she teaches the same way. Voice lessons rooted in the Carnatic tradition and opened to Bollywood, film, and pop — one to one, in person around the Bay Area or over Zoom, for beginners and performers alike.

Inquire about lessons via the booking studio.

The Gallery

Portrait of Ranjani framed by yellow and orange flower garlands in blue light — Gajra

Ranjani in a saffron bridal look wearing aviator sunglasses — Saffron, subverted

Ranjani in black-and-white silk beneath a chandelier in a teal-and-gold room — The palace room

Ranjani leaning on a grand piano under a teal spotlight — At the piano

For sangeets, receptions & celebrations

On stage, she is simply Ranjani

Weddings and events live in their own house — repertoire, details, and the booking calendar, now reserving Summer 2027.

Visit ranjanimusic.com