Harini "Rini" Raghavan
Singer, Violinist, Composer & Software Engineer
New Jersey-based singer, violinist, and composer who integrates South Asian Carnatic traditions with jazz and electronic pop. A 2023 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellow, her credits include the Grammy-nominated album Shuruaat and co-composing the score for the Netflix series The Fame Game. In live performances, she utilizes Ableton Live to trigger synthesizers, bridging her acoustic training with modern electronic production techniques. Parallel to her music career, she has over 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer at firms like TriNet, specializing in React, Next.js, and Astrojs.
Rini draws on her decades of Carnatic music training and her years at Berklee, shifting South Asian classical elements toward pop and jazz sensibilities in a refreshing, organic way.
Tech
Production-grade applications for ThoughtWorks, Zenefits, and TriNet.
Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue.js, Astro.js.
Backend: Node.js, Python (Django), Ruby on Rails.
Specialization: CMS-driven marketing platforms and high-traffic web architectures.
Music tools: Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton.
With her powerful, often ferocious mezzo-soprano, carnatically-influenced violin lines, Raghavan led the group through a dynamic set that blended Trans-Siberian Orchestra pomp with distantly macabre early ELO and even more towering cinematics.
Live
Rini
- June 20th 5 PMDesifest, Toronto, Canada
- July 11th 3:45 PMMaplewoodstock, Maplewood, NJ
- Aug 28th 7 PMThe Red Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY (A.R. Rahman Through the Ages)
- Nov 1stBurlington County Library, NJ (with Usiloquy)
- April 2027Multiple dates in North Carolina, coming soon
With American Patchwork Quartet
- July 31stBard College, NY
- Oct 9San Antonio, TX
- Oct 10Bryan, TX
- Oct 11Houston, TX
- Oct 11-14Residency in Ogden, UT
- Oct 15Sun Valley, ID
- Oct 16Mt. Vernon, WA
- Oct 22Garner, NC
- Oct 23Roswell, GA
- Oct 30Georgetown, DC
Rini started off with her 2016 EP Kural and has gone on to release four more records, including Alone In the Blue EP in 2016, Maya in 2017 and Echoes of the Ghats in 2020, arriving at a powerful contemporary Carnatic/electronic fusion sound.