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Sowmya Krishnamurthy | |
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Occupation | Music journalist and author |
Nationality | American |
Subject | Hip-Hop |
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Sowmya Krishnamurthy is an American music journalist and author. [1] She has contributed to Time, Rolling Stone, XXL, Complex, Billboard, Playboy and NPR. [2] Sowmya is the author of Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion ( Gallery Books/ Simon & Schuster). [3] [4]
Krishnamurthy began her writing career at The Michigan Daily. [5] She interned at CNN and Bad Boy Records and was in William Morris Endeavor's agent training program. [6] In 2012, she starred on MTV's Hip-Hop POV with Charlamagne Tha God and Amanda Seales. Sowmya has appeared on MSNBC, BBC, and CNN. [7] [8] In 2021, she launched The Lookout by SoundCloud on SiriusXM. [9]
She has provided expert commentary on The Breakfast Club and Ebro in the Morning. [10] [11] She is one of Complex's "25 Music Insiders to Follow on Twitter" with other journalists Elliott Wilson and Charlamagne Tha God. [12]
In 2023, Krishnamurthy authored Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion. The book began as a story in XXL. [13] This is the first anthology on hip-hop fashion. [14] [15] Kirkus Reviews and Booklist named the book as one of the "best books of 2023". [16] [17]
In January 2024, she announced that her next book is about Jay-Z and hip-hop label Roc-A-Fella Records: Roc-A-Fella Records: An American Rap Dynasty. [18]
Krishnamurthy grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and graduated from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. [19] [20] She is the first hip-hop journalist of Indian American descent and lives in New York City. [21] [22]
ELLE has called Krishnamurthy one of the women authors "redefining" the hip-hop books canon. [23]
Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion. Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster. 2023. ISBN 9781982176327.
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