June 8, 2025 • 25 mins
Discover the incredible journey of viral sensation Sheena Melwani in this special episode of Que Pasa Boston, recorded live in front of an audience during the show's recording.
From intimate Facebook Live sessions for family to captivating over 10 million followers worldwide, Sheena shares the authentic story behind her meteoric rise in the music industry.
What You'll Experience:
• How authenticity and vulnerability built a global community of 10+ million followers
• The powerful story behind Sheena's new single "More of You"
• Balancing motherhood with a thriving music career in the digital age
• Supporting women in music through She Is The Music platform
• Breaking barriers as a female content creator and singer-songwriter
• Exclusive live performance featuring Boston Arts Academy's talented Eva Jackson Live
Audience Experience: This special episode was recorded in front of a live audience during the Que Pasa Boston show recording, creating an intimate and energetic atmosphere you can feel through the audio. The direct audience interaction adds a unique dimension to this inspiring conversation. Host Gabriela Salas brings you this raw, emotional conversation about resilience, authenticity, and using your platform to elevate others, with the infectious energy of a live audience present throughout the entire recording.
Que Pasa Boston - Boston's premier bilingual podcast connecting Latino communities with essential resources, inspiring stories, and community leaders making a difference. Hosted by Gabriela Salas, Vice President of iHeartMedia Sales.
Air Times: Sundays 8:00 AM on Rumba 97.7 FM | 6:30 AM on JAMN 94.5 FM
#SheenaMelwani #QuePasaBoston #WomenInMusic #LiveRecording #LiveAudience #Motherhood #MusicIndustry #BostonArtsAcademy #iHeartMedia #Rumba977 #JAMN945 #LiveShow #ContentCreation #AuthenticStorytelling
Sheena Melwani: De Facebook Live a 10 Millones de Seguidores - Música, Maternidad y Rompiendo Barreras | Que Pasa Boston
Descubre la increíble trayectoria de la sensación viral Sheena Melwani en este episodio especial de Que Pasa Boston, grabado en vivo frente a una audiencia presente durante la grabación del show. Desde sesiones íntimas de Facebook Live para familia hasta cautivar a más de 10 millones de seguidores mundialmente, Sheena comparte la historia auténtica detrás de su ascenso meteórico en la industria musical.
Lo Que Experimentarás:
Que Pasa Boston - El podcast bilingüe premier de Boston conectando comunidades latinas con recursos esenciales, historias inspiradoras y líderes comunitarios marcando la diferencia.
Horarios de Transmisión: Domingos 8:00 AM en Rumba 97.7 FM | 6:30 AM en JAMN 94.5 FM
From intimate Facebook Live sessions for family to captivating over 10 million followers worldwide, Sheena shares the authentic story behind her meteoric rise in the music industry.
What You'll Experience:
• How authenticity and vulnerability built a global community of 10+ million followers
• The powerful story behind Sheena's new single "More of You"
• Balancing motherhood with a thriving music career in the digital age
• Supporting women in music through She Is The Music platform
• Breaking barriers as a female content creator and singer-songwriter
• Exclusive live performance featuring Boston Arts Academy's talented Eva Jackson Live
Audience Experience: This special episode was recorded in front of a live audience during the Que Pasa Boston show recording, creating an intimate and energetic atmosphere you can feel through the audio. The direct audience interaction adds a unique dimension to this inspiring conversation. Host Gabriela Salas brings you this raw, emotional conversation about resilience, authenticity, and using your platform to elevate others, with the infectious energy of a live audience present throughout the entire recording.
Que Pasa Boston - Boston's premier bilingual podcast connecting Latino communities with essential resources, inspiring stories, and community leaders making a difference. Hosted by Gabriela Salas, Vice President of iHeartMedia Sales.
Air Times: Sundays 8:00 AM on Rumba 97.7 FM | 6:30 AM on JAMN 94.5 FM
#SheenaMelwani #QuePasaBoston #WomenInMusic #LiveRecording #LiveAudience #Motherhood #MusicIndustry #BostonArtsAcademy #iHeartMedia #Rumba977 #JAMN945 #LiveShow #ContentCreation #AuthenticStorytelling
Sheena Melwani: De Facebook Live a 10 Millones de Seguidores - Música, Maternidad y Rompiendo Barreras | Que Pasa Boston
Descubre la increíble trayectoria de la sensación viral Sheena Melwani en este episodio especial de Que Pasa Boston, grabado en vivo frente a una audiencia presente durante la grabación del show. Desde sesiones íntimas de Facebook Live para familia hasta cautivar a más de 10 millones de seguidores mundialmente, Sheena comparte la historia auténtica detrás de su ascenso meteórico en la industria musical.
Lo Que Experimentarás:
- Cómo la autenticidad y vulnerabilidad construyeron una comunidad global de 10+ millones de seguidores
- La poderosa historia detrás del nuevo sencillo de Sheena "More of You"
- Equilibrando la maternidad con una carrera musical próspera en la era digital
- Apoyando mujeres en la música a través de la plataforma She Is The Music
- Rompiendo barreras como creadora de contenido y cantautora
- Presentación en vivo exclusiva con la talentosa Eva Jackson de Boston Arts Academy
Que Pasa Boston - El podcast bilingüe premier de Boston conectando comunidades latinas con recursos esenciales, historias inspiradoras y líderes comunitarios marcando la diferencia.
Horarios de Transmisión: Domingos 8:00 AM en Rumba 97.7 FM | 6:30 AM en JAMN 94.5 FM
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When I Notch is Boston, come with Stomas and Gaza.
I am so proud and so excited to have you
all here, because.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tonight we have a live audience. Say hello everybody. Gina,
this is what you're doing. So much you all for
being here.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I am so proud to be able to welcome not
only a friend, she is a mom, She's a wife,
she is joy all over that word. She is a
fabulous woman that supports other women and most likely you
all know her for her beautiful voice. Shina Malwani, Welcome
(00:41):
to Kibasa Boston. Yes, I love having Shina here with
me because she is a resemblance of what Boston is
all about. Boston is about talent, about success, and it's
about true stories. And I invited you today because I
want you to tell me more of you you. I
want people to know who you are, where you come from,
(01:04):
the struggles, the beautiful things that you've experienced, but most importantly,
of what made you.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Who you are today. And let's start about.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Your family, because you have a wonderful Sonjay, Hello, Jay,
and Zara that is here too, a beautiful gymnast and
your husband Dinejh who's a very good friend of mine
and I thank you guys for sharing.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Shina with me tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
How is it to live in Boston, to be in
have your family here, go to school and also be
a sing songwriter.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's actually a wonderful thing when you find your people,
when you find the people that you make your life with.
And I could not ask for a better team. This
is my team in life and they are truly remarkable people.
They are supportive, they are pure lovingly, they teach me
a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
They have taught me a lot about.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Being a good human, being a kind mother, friend, wife,
and singer and songwriter.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And it just translates for those who are listening and
our audience that do not know Shina Maljani. Shina Maljani
not only is a sing songwriter, but she's also a
content creator. She has over ten million followers and her
social networks. And what I am impressed is that she
not only has those millions and millions of followers, but
(02:25):
she also reproduces these videos and shares content that is
very much so authentic. It resonates with most of us.
And for me, it's important to bring resources and give
the opportunity to talent to be showcased here. It's very
difficult to shine in the music industry, and me having
(02:47):
this platform provides an opportunity for people like Shina and
people that are successful and talented here in Boston to shine.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So tonight is going to be your night.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It's all about you, and I want us to enjoy
a little bit of the history of how you started
on that social media pathway.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Because you started with.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
One follower, I imagine how did you get to TELI I
had four come on? Okay for yeah, I figured it. Mom, dad,
that's all right, brother, exactly. People follow she now, please
because she's dying. She needs more followers. Well that's honestly.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Thank you for asking, And first of all, thank you
for having me and for sharing your platform, because it's
really special to be able to be up here and
share the story, but to actually have your friend beside
you supporting you, it feels really, really special.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
So thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's my journey and my my world on social media.
I didn't set out to do this. I didn't start
saying I want to be a creator.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I want to be.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I've always sung, It's always been something that's come naturally
to me. But I didn't know what I wanted to
do with it. I you sang in a wedding band.
I sang you know, here and there wherever. I could,
corporate gigs whenever I could, but I was working towards
signing with the label that traditional Path, and you know,
I didn't know what the future was going to hold
for me when I was out of college.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But it just didn't feel right.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm not they didn't buy followers, No, I didn't buy followers,
just checking, but.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It just was. It was one of those things that
never felt like it was me. I didn't want to
be the woman on tour leaving her family at home,
or being you know, putting my kids to bed and
running out to sing.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
At a bar on Friday and Saturday night. I wanted
to be with my family.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And so when the pandemic hit and I had an
opportunity to turn my phone on and everybody was home,
and everybody was sitting there waiting for some kind of
connection and something to entertain them and make them feel good,
the same way that I was looking for that connection,
and that you know, what can I do to make
myself feel and my family and my kids feel better.
(04:54):
We turned to social media, and I used to turn
on my like Facebook Live and I would sing for people.
And I would sing for a group of thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen people like my mom, my dad, my mother in law,
my father in law, whoever was there. They would all
tune in and we were all over the world and
we just would sit together and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
For my little Latino family. Shina a l espanol oh see,
and she sings in Spanish and I've heard her during
the pandemic, also doing coomola flow easy.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I would say, English, French.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Spanish, do a little bit comola floor condo. Really, So
that's what you got to enjoy when you were like
just I was a human chebass exactly. But what I
liked a lot about Gina is that she was so
authentic that she had not even put a.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Mascara, no mamma. She was just love herself. I know.
But back then, I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I still think the kids, even me, I don't want
to be on camera if I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
All, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And that made me think of what's really important, because
it didn't matter you were in pajamas with your hair
up with my family, right, your family, just that every
day normal Sheena, and she got the attention of everybody
because of who you were or who you are, and
that to me is the essence. That is what's important.
(06:21):
And I want you that you're a home, that you're
working on your social media. I want you to know
that it's about you. What do you bring to the table,
who you are, your essence, And I love that you
were able to break those barriers.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
How do you feel.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I didn't know I was breaking those barriers. You're giving
me a lot more credit. I didn't know that I
was breaking any barriers. I was just being myself. And
I think that that is really the key, is to
be yourself as much as you can possibly be. In
a world where we try to show people what we have,
where we're going, what we're doing, who we're with.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I didn't. I wasn't part of my thinking process.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I was just showing up for my friends and my family,
my kids, my husband. We would turn it on and
I was doing it for myself because I was also sad,
So I was singing for people for myself and it
just came very, very naturally.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Very so.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Is that how you start writing your own songs or
how did you go from just singing covers or just
the songs that you like and that you love. When
is it that you say you know, I have an idea,
let me write about it.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So I've been writing for many, many, many years, and
singing has always been a.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Part of what has made me feel whole.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And anytime I felt broken, anytime I had a fight
with my husband, anytime I had dinet hey watch it,
anytime something made me feel anything. That's when I wrote
I lost a friend. I wrote, I had a you know,
I had a really cool moment. I wrote, I felt really,
(07:56):
really overwhelmed. I wrote, that was how I processed. I
was living in Japan, I was walking around not knowing
who's around me. I wrote, like it was a way
for it's always to.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Write in Japanese too.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I wish no I didn't, but I can.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I wish that gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But if I write you don't want to hear what
I have to say, it would be not good. I
love the fact that your family has supported you, but
you have also supported other women. And I want to
touch this point because more of You has become some
sort of a platform for women. Because I was produced
(08:31):
by a lot of women and She's the MA Male team, right,
And I want you to tell me how did you
connect with She's the Music? And also how were you
able to bring this story to Boston Arts Academy and
now incorporate even students that are female.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, thank you, because this is a This is something
that I feel really really strongly about. There is not
enough representation for women in the music industry, in any industry,
to be very honest, It's like it's such a small percentage.
And when I heard that percentage, I was doing a
show last year at the Both Studios, and I was
(09:11):
doing it for a you know, a mainly female audience,
and somebody said to me, do you know that there
is like a it's a two point nine percent of
women are in music production. And I said, no, no,
that's not possible. It's just not possible. Why is it
that low? And he said, well, this is this is
what we're trying to change. We're trying to work with
foundations like She Is the Music. We're trying to highlight
(09:34):
other women. And I said, okay, I I don't know
much about the music industry just yet, but I have
a platform and I want to use my platform to
raise awareness and to raise women matter.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I can't want to make an invitation to everybody that
is listening to us. What if they start tagging us
or you know, dming us. How can we help you?
Because we're here to help yield. This is the show
that is going to bring you resources, that is going
to provide some access. And I think if you and
I started something a little trend, something that says like
(10:08):
I'm raising my hand, I want to write a song.
I want to show you what I have. I mean,
probably we don't have a lot of ten million hours
a day to go through all of them, but it
would be great to have that story and platform and
resource available for me.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The way that I did it was I just kept
looking for women. I kept searching for more women, which
is why I connected with She Is the Music. They
connected me too. I had already thankfully started writing with
a female.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It didn't environment is saying I'm sorry, next time, good thing,
because it would have been a mess.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That would not be a good production.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So we you know, we reached out to women and
I used this, I use the resources that She's the
Music had. We connected with a female vocal engineer, and
then we moved forward to work with a female production team.
The producer that we landed with is incredible. So if
you're a female and you're looking or if you're even
a male looking to produce music, try to reach out
(11:04):
to your female resources. And we use a female mastering
engineer wherever we could. We just paid tribute to the women.
We try to get the women on our team.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But I'm going to make an invitation to all men,
because women, we support each other, but we need you
men to raise your hand and also support us and say, like,
you know, what what if I were to create this
with a female partner. What if I were to give
my wife, my daughter, my whomever an opportunity to also
(11:36):
participate in whatever I'm doing. Because I think we cannot
make the change alone, but if we have you guys
also supporting us and saying like, hey, I have an idea.
I cannot do it myself, but what if you bring
your friends. That would be a change maker overall in
any industry, in any situation. So we are asking you
(11:57):
guys to show for us and to teach us too
how to make it out there, because it's really really tough.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
But you know, the first step is awareness, the fact
that we're having this conversation, the fact that we're able
to share these kinds of kind resitions. It has to
be said, but sometimes, you know, it takes a minute
to say it. It takes a minute to understand that there's
even a problem. So the fact that we're having this conversation,
the fact that all of you are here listening to it.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You might leave with this one nugget and say, oh,
that's true. I didn't even know that. And you might
go home and tell your daughters.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And you might go home and tell your sisters and
your friends, or your brothers or your sons. Teach them,
tell them, have those conversations with them. My kids hear
it all the time, like this is part of our
conversation in our home.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We want to hear more of you, and I want
to hear more of where this song comes about.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What is more of you all about?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I Okay, I'm going to embarrass my son a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I don't know if he knows this full story, but
my son, who is now fourteen, when he was probably
about twelve, he and I were butting heads a lot,
used to fight about everything because we are so similar,
We're so stubborn, and we are we both know exactly
what we want. And as his mom, I always thought
I knew better, and I reached a point in my
(13:12):
life where I was like, no, I whether I know
better or not, it needs to be his story.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I need to let him be more of himself.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And so the minute I started exploring that that concept
of more of him, more independence, more of his personality,
more of whoever he was going to be, because children
come through us, not to us, right, and he he
has his own journey, he has his own story that
he needs to write, and I'm here to support it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And it's funny you're saying that because I was talking
to a friend of mine yesterday and we were discussing
the fact that we have become that everything for one person.
So now you have your sister, your partner, or whomever,
and it's like, oh, you're my confident, my trainer, my coach,
my chauffeur, everything for me, and it's a lot of
(14:03):
heaviness and pressure. And I think that also we need
to learn to let people become who they're supposed to become.
And that's what you're doing with Jay, and I'm trying
to do that with my daughter. It's very child, it's
very trying. So that's how the idea came to be.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And then I realized the more I ideated on it,
the more I realized this is. This should be the
story for all of our relationships, not only just me
and my son, me and my daughter, my mother in law,
my husband, my parents, my sister, my friends. The beauty
happens when you let people shine and you let them
bring who they are and their magic into the relationship too.
(14:40):
You can't manipulate the entire thing to just be what
you want.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
That's why I'm gonna let you shine now. And we're
gonna invite our super guitarist from Boston Arts Academy, Eva Jackson.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Eva, please join Sheena, who is going to also it's
a female instrumental play more of you, and I'm gonna
leave you with more of them.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Come on up, Eva.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
So I'm gonna tell you guys a little bit about Eva.
We just met a few weeks ago, and she is incredible.
She's at the Boston Arts Academy and she didn't know
these two songs before we started. She heard them for
about what ten minutes, and she is you can tell
(15:29):
me after. But I think she's she crushes it like
she's just incredible. So here is more of you.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
You make me feel like dancing in the rain. You
make me feel like laughing every day. I can imagine
how it be okay with them you and you'll like
rays of sun chain on my face and you're like
(16:03):
falling snow long Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I can't imagine how I be okay.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Without you. You what a need on my wsday?
Speaker 8 (16:23):
And when I surrender to you a fun way, if
I get to tell wild and may.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
True, let them be a more you, let them be
lessen me a more of you.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
You other reason I show you give me strength when
I've had enough, where never RI feel like I'm not okay,
I've got you. I love the way you smile with
your eyes a media silence give me buttoflies and never Rie.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Feel like I'm not okay. I've got you. It's you're
wanting need on that wadays.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
And when I surrender to you, I'm that.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Way.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
I just say the world the magat.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
True, let it be less me and more of you.
Speaker 12 (17:55):
When not feel more we okay, you leave me.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
And make me.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
You wouldn't need on the.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Wisstays and when a surrender to you a fam.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
You wouldn't need online.
Speaker 12 (18:33):
Days, and when not surrender to you a way the
fact you just tell them the least, get to let.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
It be live a more of you, let the be
listen me and you.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Didn't you crush it? Thank you. We're gonna do one
more song.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
And I think you guys will recognize this when it's
really having its moment right now.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
But we're changing it up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I think my kids are sick and tired of this song,
but they haven't heard this version, so maybe they'll like it.
This is Ordinary by Alex Warren and it's such a
beautiful song.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
So even and I are gonna make it our own.
But let us know what you think.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
They say the Holy Arter has waded down.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Town's lost its faith.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
The colors will faith eventually, but if a time is
running out a day after day, make them mundane a masterpiece.
Oh my my, oh man, I'll.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
Take one look at you. You're taking me out a
little the ordinary. I want you laying me down to
a dead and buried on the edge of your knife.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Stay and drunk on your vine. The angels up in
the clouds.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Un jilous so when we found something.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
A while the ordinary.
Speaker 13 (21:03):
You got me kiss on the ground of your sanctuary.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Shot a really a touch?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Oh lorda, tell me to dice. The angels up in
the clouds.
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Jealous not with me fat.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Hoplessly LOUI.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
On the side of evens gates.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh my life, how do you.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Breathe?
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Then take my breath away at your altar, will prey.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
You're the sculptor around the class.
Speaker 13 (21:46):
Oh my mind taking me out of the ordinary? I
want you laying me down to a dead and mary
on the edge of your knife, staying drunk on your
vis the angels.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Up in the clout?
Speaker 10 (22:04):
How gel is not when we fance something so loud?
How the ordinary?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You got me.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Kissing the ground of your sanctumy.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
You shot a millions hood? Tell me abst.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
The angels up in the clout?
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Aw gel is knowing me fad something so?
Speaker 11 (22:29):
How you their next? As know your next? Tell me
hold well was a flag can until the side? Like
I knew I had to dade too? Fine?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Something so old of the ordinary? An't you laying me
down to a dead and buried on the edge of
your knife?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Stay Andrew, I'm going thank you so much Eva. Wasn't
she amazing? Can you believe it? She's like she's still
she's not even college yet.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
This girl has way like just the world is your oyster?
Even keep playing, keep shining.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I'm speechless. Oh that doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
No, it doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I know.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's like you.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Have to tell me, friend, I call when I need
somebody to talk to me.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I am.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I was telling Sheena when we were rehearsing, and I
really was tearing up. I feel very proud of you
for me. It's not just the fact that you're releasing
a new song for me, is a new era, a
new step in your career. I am so honored to
welcome you in my show, but not only because I
(23:57):
believe in you, but because we're giving opportunity to other
talented people to dream and to become who they want
to become.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Can I can I share a little story?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I have been trying to do this for many, many,
many years. So anybody that's listening right now, there's no
right time for anything, or there is a right time,
but it's not when you always think it is. So
I've spent many many years thinking that, Oh now it's
the time. Now, it's the time. Now, it's the time.
And when the time is right, it happens. So it's today,
It's today. It's today, people.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
So thank you so much to our lovely audience for
being here tonight with us.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Where can we find you, Shena?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Where can people follow you that don't know anything about you?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
It's literally just my name everywhere Shina Malwaney. You can
find me on all the socials. You can find me
on Spotify and Apple and Amazon.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
You can hear this.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You have a podcast as well. Podcast. You have your
YouTube channel where you share all.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
The Our podcast is called Shena Interrupted and everything else
is at Shina Malwani.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Where can they really? I mean download the.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Song Apple, Spotify, Amazon.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And it's called more of You, More of You people.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I want to hear more of all of you with
all those dreams and all those stories. Don't forget to
download the iHeart app and select kit Passa Polson as.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Your favorite podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Also in that same app, you can find Cina Malwane
More of You.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Thank you everybody for joining us tonight
When I Notch is Boston, come with Stomas and Gaza.
I am so proud and so excited to have you
all here, because.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tonight we have a live audience. Say hello everybody. Gina,
this is what you're doing. So much you all for
being here.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I am so proud to be able to welcome not
only a friend, she is a mom, She's a wife,
she is joy all over that word. She is a
fabulous woman that supports other women and most likely you
all know her for her beautiful voice. Shina Malwani, Welcome
(00:41):
to Kibasa Boston. Yes, I love having Shina here with
me because she is a resemblance of what Boston is
all about. Boston is about talent, about success, and it's
about true stories. And I invited you today because I
want you to tell me more of you you. I
want people to know who you are, where you come from,
(01:04):
the struggles, the beautiful things that you've experienced, but most importantly,
of what made you.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Who you are today. And let's start about.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Your family, because you have a wonderful Sonjay, Hello, Jay,
and Zara that is here too, a beautiful gymnast and
your husband Dinejh who's a very good friend of mine
and I thank you guys for sharing.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Shina with me tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
How is it to live in Boston, to be in
have your family here, go to school and also be
a sing songwriter.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's actually a wonderful thing when you find your people,
when you find the people that you make your life with.
And I could not ask for a better team. This
is my team in life and they are truly remarkable people.
They are supportive, they are pure lovingly, they teach me
a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
They have taught me a lot about.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Being a good human, being a kind mother, friend, wife,
and singer and songwriter.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And it just translates for those who are listening and
our audience that do not know Shina Maljani. Shina Maljani
not only is a sing songwriter, but she's also a
content creator. She has over ten million followers and her
social networks. And what I am impressed is that she
not only has those millions and millions of followers, but
(02:25):
she also reproduces these videos and shares content that is
very much so authentic. It resonates with most of us.
And for me, it's important to bring resources and give
the opportunity to talent to be showcased here. It's very
difficult to shine in the music industry, and me having
(02:47):
this platform provides an opportunity for people like Shina and
people that are successful and talented here in Boston to shine.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
So tonight is going to be your night.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It's all about you, and I want us to enjoy
a little bit of the history of how you started
on that social media pathway.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Because you started with.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
One follower, I imagine how did you get to TELI I
had four come on? Okay for yeah, I figured it. Mom, dad,
that's all right, brother, exactly. People follow she now, please
because she's dying. She needs more followers. Well that's honestly.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Thank you for asking, And first of all, thank you
for having me and for sharing your platform, because it's
really special to be able to be up here and
share the story, but to actually have your friend beside
you supporting you, it feels really, really special.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
So thank you for having us.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It's my journey and my my world on social media.
I didn't set out to do this. I didn't start
saying I want to be a creator.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I want to be.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I've always sung, It's always been something that's come naturally
to me. But I didn't know what I wanted to
do with it. I you sang in a wedding band.
I sang you know, here and there wherever. I could,
corporate gigs whenever I could, but I was working towards
signing with the label that traditional Path, and you know,
I didn't know what the future was going to hold
for me when I was out of college.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But it just didn't feel right.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm not they didn't buy followers, No, I didn't buy followers,
just checking, but.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It just was. It was one of those things that
never felt like it was me. I didn't want to
be the woman on tour leaving her family at home,
or being you know, putting my kids to bed and
running out to sing.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
At a bar on Friday and Saturday night. I wanted
to be with my family.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And so when the pandemic hit and I had an
opportunity to turn my phone on and everybody was home,
and everybody was sitting there waiting for some kind of
connection and something to entertain them and make them feel good,
the same way that I was looking for that connection,
and that you know, what can I do to make
myself feel and my family and my kids feel better.
(04:54):
We turned to social media, and I used to turn
on my like Facebook Live and I would sing for people.
And I would sing for a group of thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen people like my mom, my dad, my mother in law,
my father in law, whoever was there. They would all
tune in and we were all over the world and
we just would sit together and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
For my little Latino family. Shina a l espanol oh see,
and she sings in Spanish and I've heard her during
the pandemic, also doing coomola flow easy.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I would say, English, French.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Spanish, do a little bit comola floor condo. Really, So
that's what you got to enjoy when you were like
just I was a human chebass exactly. But what I
liked a lot about Gina is that she was so
authentic that she had not even put a.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Mascara, no mamma. She was just love herself. I know.
But back then, I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I still think the kids, even me, I don't want
to be on camera if I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
All, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And that made me think of what's really important, because
it didn't matter you were in pajamas with your hair
up with my family, right, your family, just that every
day normal Sheena, and she got the attention of everybody
because of who you were or who you are, and
that to me is the essence. That is what's important.
(06:21):
And I want you that you're a home, that you're
working on your social media. I want you to know
that it's about you. What do you bring to the table,
who you are, your essence, And I love that you
were able to break those barriers.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
How do you feel.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I didn't know I was breaking those barriers. You're giving
me a lot more credit. I didn't know that I
was breaking any barriers. I was just being myself. And
I think that that is really the key, is to
be yourself as much as you can possibly be. In
a world where we try to show people what we have,
where we're going, what we're doing, who we're with.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I didn't. I wasn't part of my thinking process.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I was just showing up for my friends and my family,
my kids, my husband. We would turn it on and
I was doing it for myself because I was also sad,
So I was singing for people for myself and it
just came very, very naturally.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Very so.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Is that how you start writing your own songs or
how did you go from just singing covers or just
the songs that you like and that you love. When
is it that you say you know, I have an idea,
let me write about it.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So I've been writing for many, many, many years, and
singing has always been a.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Part of what has made me feel whole.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And anytime I felt broken, anytime I had a fight
with my husband, anytime I had dinet hey watch it,
anytime something made me feel anything. That's when I wrote
I lost a friend. I wrote, I had a you know,
I had a really cool moment. I wrote, I felt really,
(07:56):
really overwhelmed. I wrote, that was how I processed. I
was living in Japan, I was walking around not knowing
who's around me. I wrote, like it was a way
for it's always to.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Write in Japanese too.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I wish no I didn't, but I can.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I wish that gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But if I write you don't want to hear what
I have to say, it would be not good. I
love the fact that your family has supported you, but
you have also supported other women. And I want to
touch this point because more of You has become some
sort of a platform for women. Because I was produced
(08:31):
by a lot of women and She's the MA Male team, right,
And I want you to tell me how did you
connect with She's the Music? And also how were you
able to bring this story to Boston Arts Academy and
now incorporate even students that are female.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, thank you, because this is a This is something
that I feel really really strongly about. There is not
enough representation for women in the music industry, in any industry,
to be very honest, It's like it's such a small percentage.
And when I heard that percentage, I was doing a
show last year at the Both Studios, and I was
(09:11):
doing it for a you know, a mainly female audience,
and somebody said to me, do you know that there
is like a it's a two point nine percent of
women are in music production. And I said, no, no,
that's not possible. It's just not possible. Why is it
that low? And he said, well, this is this is
what we're trying to change. We're trying to work with
foundations like She Is the Music. We're trying to highlight
(09:34):
other women. And I said, okay, I I don't know
much about the music industry just yet, but I have
a platform and I want to use my platform to
raise awareness and to raise women matter.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I can't want to make an invitation to everybody that
is listening to us. What if they start tagging us
or you know, dming us. How can we help you?
Because we're here to help yield. This is the show
that is going to bring you resources, that is going
to provide some access. And I think if you and
I started something a little trend, something that says like
(10:08):
I'm raising my hand, I want to write a song.
I want to show you what I have. I mean,
probably we don't have a lot of ten million hours
a day to go through all of them, but it
would be great to have that story and platform and
resource available for me.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The way that I did it was I just kept
looking for women. I kept searching for more women, which
is why I connected with She Is the Music. They
connected me too. I had already thankfully started writing with
a female.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It didn't environment is saying I'm sorry, next time, good thing,
because it would have been a mess.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
That would not be a good production.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So we you know, we reached out to women and
I used this, I use the resources that She's the
Music had. We connected with a female vocal engineer, and
then we moved forward to work with a female production team.
The producer that we landed with is incredible. So if
you're a female and you're looking or if you're even
a male looking to produce music, try to reach out
(11:04):
to your female resources. And we use a female mastering
engineer wherever we could. We just paid tribute to the women.
We try to get the women on our team.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But I'm going to make an invitation to all men,
because women, we support each other, but we need you
men to raise your hand and also support us and say, like,
you know, what what if I were to create this
with a female partner. What if I were to give
my wife, my daughter, my whomever an opportunity to also
(11:36):
participate in whatever I'm doing. Because I think we cannot
make the change alone, but if we have you guys
also supporting us and saying like, hey, I have an idea.
I cannot do it myself, but what if you bring
your friends. That would be a change maker overall in
any industry, in any situation. So we are asking you
(11:57):
guys to show for us and to teach us too
how to make it out there, because it's really really tough.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
But you know, the first step is awareness, the fact
that we're having this conversation, the fact that we're able
to share these kinds of kind resitions. It has to
be said, but sometimes, you know, it takes a minute
to say it. It takes a minute to understand that there's
even a problem. So the fact that we're having this conversation,
the fact that all of you are here listening to it.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You might leave with this one nugget and say, oh,
that's true. I didn't even know that. And you might
go home and tell your daughters.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And you might go home and tell your sisters and
your friends, or your brothers or your sons. Teach them,
tell them, have those conversations with them. My kids hear
it all the time, like this is part of our
conversation in our home.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We want to hear more of you, and I want
to hear more of where this song comes about.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What is more of you all about?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I Okay, I'm going to embarrass my son a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I don't know if he knows this full story, but
my son, who is now fourteen, when he was probably
about twelve, he and I were butting heads a lot,
used to fight about everything because we are so similar,
We're so stubborn, and we are we both know exactly
what we want. And as his mom, I always thought
I knew better, and I reached a point in my
(13:12):
life where I was like, no, I whether I know
better or not, it needs to be his story.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I need to let him be more of himself.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And so the minute I started exploring that that concept
of more of him, more independence, more of his personality,
more of whoever he was going to be, because children
come through us, not to us, right, and he he
has his own journey, he has his own story that
he needs to write, and I'm here to support it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And it's funny you're saying that because I was talking
to a friend of mine yesterday and we were discussing
the fact that we have become that everything for one person.
So now you have your sister, your partner, or whomever,
and it's like, oh, you're my confident, my trainer, my coach,
my chauffeur, everything for me, and it's a lot of
(14:03):
heaviness and pressure. And I think that also we need
to learn to let people become who they're supposed to become.
And that's what you're doing with Jay, and I'm trying
to do that with my daughter. It's very child, it's
very trying. So that's how the idea came to be.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And then I realized the more I ideated on it,
the more I realized this is. This should be the
story for all of our relationships, not only just me
and my son, me and my daughter, my mother in law,
my husband, my parents, my sister, my friends. The beauty
happens when you let people shine and you let them
bring who they are and their magic into the relationship too.
(14:40):
You can't manipulate the entire thing to just be what
you want.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
That's why I'm gonna let you shine now. And we're
gonna invite our super guitarist from Boston Arts Academy, Eva Jackson.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Eva, please join Sheena, who is going to also it's
a female instrumental play more of you, and I'm gonna
leave you with more of them.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Come on up, Eva.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
So I'm gonna tell you guys a little bit about Eva.
We just met a few weeks ago, and she is incredible.
She's at the Boston Arts Academy and she didn't know
these two songs before we started. She heard them for
about what ten minutes, and she is you can tell
(15:29):
me after. But I think she's she crushes it like
she's just incredible. So here is more of you.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
You make me feel like dancing in the rain. You
make me feel like laughing every day. I can imagine
how it be okay with them you and you'll like
rays of sun chain on my face and you're like
(16:03):
falling snow long Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I can't imagine how I be okay.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Without you. You what a need on my wsday?
Speaker 8 (16:23):
And when I surrender to you a fun way, if
I get to tell wild and may.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
True, let them be a more you, let them be
lessen me a more of you.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
You other reason I show you give me strength when
I've had enough, where never RI feel like I'm not okay,
I've got you. I love the way you smile with
your eyes a media silence give me buttoflies and never Rie.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Feel like I'm not okay. I've got you. It's you're
wanting need on that wadays.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
And when I surrender to you, I'm that.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Way.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
I just say the world the magat.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
True, let it be less me and more of you.
Speaker 12 (17:55):
When not feel more we okay, you leave me.
Speaker 10 (18:06):
And make me.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
You wouldn't need on the.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Wisstays and when a surrender to you a fam.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
You wouldn't need online.
Speaker 12 (18:33):
Days, and when not surrender to you a way the
fact you just tell them the least, get to let.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
It be live a more of you, let the be
listen me and you.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Didn't you crush it? Thank you. We're gonna do one
more song.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
And I think you guys will recognize this when it's
really having its moment right now.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
But we're changing it up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I think my kids are sick and tired of this song,
but they haven't heard this version, so maybe they'll like it.
This is Ordinary by Alex Warren and it's such a
beautiful song.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
So even and I are gonna make it our own.
But let us know what you think.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
They say the Holy Arter has waded down.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Town's lost its faith.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
The colors will faith eventually, but if a time is
running out a day after day, make them mundane a masterpiece.
Oh my my, oh man, I'll.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
Take one look at you. You're taking me out a
little the ordinary. I want you laying me down to
a dead and buried on the edge of your knife.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Stay and drunk on your vine. The angels up in
the clouds.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Un jilous so when we found something.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
A while the ordinary.
Speaker 13 (21:03):
You got me kiss on the ground of your sanctuary.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Shot a really a touch?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Oh lorda, tell me to dice. The angels up in
the clouds.
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Jealous not with me fat.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Hoplessly LOUI.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
On the side of evens gates.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh my life, how do you.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Breathe?
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Then take my breath away at your altar, will prey.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
You're the sculptor around the class.
Speaker 13 (21:46):
Oh my mind taking me out of the ordinary? I
want you laying me down to a dead and mary
on the edge of your knife, staying drunk on your
vis the angels.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Up in the clout?
Speaker 10 (22:04):
How gel is not when we fance something so loud?
How the ordinary?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You got me.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Kissing the ground of your sanctumy.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
You shot a millions hood? Tell me abst.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
The angels up in the clout?
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Aw gel is knowing me fad something so?
Speaker 11 (22:29):
How you their next? As know your next? Tell me
hold well was a flag can until the side? Like
I knew I had to dade too? Fine?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Something so old of the ordinary? An't you laying me
down to a dead and buried on the edge of
your knife?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Stay Andrew, I'm going thank you so much Eva. Wasn't
she amazing? Can you believe it? She's like she's still
she's not even college yet.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
This girl has way like just the world is your oyster?
Even keep playing, keep shining.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I'm speechless. Oh that doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
No, it doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I know.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's like you.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Have to tell me, friend, I call when I need
somebody to talk to me.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I am.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I was telling Sheena when we were rehearsing, and I
really was tearing up. I feel very proud of you
for me. It's not just the fact that you're releasing
a new song for me, is a new era, a
new step in your career. I am so honored to
welcome you in my show, but not only because I
(23:57):
believe in you, but because we're giving opportunity to other
talented people to dream and to become who they want
to become.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Can I can I share a little story?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I have been trying to do this for many, many,
many years. So anybody that's listening right now, there's no
right time for anything, or there is a right time,
but it's not when you always think it is. So
I've spent many many years thinking that, Oh now it's
the time. Now, it's the time. Now, it's the time.
And when the time is right, it happens. So it's today,
It's today. It's today, people.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
So thank you so much to our lovely audience for
being here tonight with us.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Where can we find you, Shena?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Where can people follow you that don't know anything about you?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
It's literally just my name everywhere Shina Malwaney. You can
find me on all the socials. You can find me
on Spotify and Apple and Amazon.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
You can hear this.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You have a podcast as well. Podcast. You have your
YouTube channel where you share all.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
The Our podcast is called Shena Interrupted and everything else
is at Shina Malwani.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Where can they really? I mean download the.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Song Apple, Spotify, Amazon.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And it's called more of You, More of You people.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I want to hear more of all of you with
all those dreams and all those stories. Don't forget to
download the iHeart app and select kit Passa Polson as.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Your favorite podcast.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Also in that same app, you can find Cina Malwane
More of You.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Thank you everybody for joining us tonight
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