Vidya Iyer (stage name Vidya Vox) was born on 26 September 1990 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Vidya has earned over 7 million YouTube subscribers. At age is 8, she and her parents moved to the USA . she learned Carnatic Classical music during her childhood. She released the first music video ‘Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do‘ on youtube on 5 May 2015.
In 2017, she released videos, Be Free, is an original song from Kuthu Fire, mixed with Malayalam folk song “Pallivaalu Bhadravattakam.” With over 195 million views presently. Vidya Vox has amassed over 750 million views. Following its success, she released more videos on her channel.
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Physical appearance
| Eye color: | Black |
| Hair color: | Black |
| Height | 5’ 3” Feet Inches |
| Weight | 51 kg |
Family, Education, and Caste
Vidya Iyer was born to the Tamil-Brahmin family. She was grown up with her younger sister Vandana Iyer, who is also acted in some of her youtube videos.
She pursued psychology and biomedical sciences degree at the George Washington University, USA.
Boyfriend and husband of Vidya Iyer
Vidya Iyer was in a relationship with her music composer Shankar Tucker; she met him in college collaborated for creating music.
Career
Vidya Iyer released many Albums in her youtube channel Vidya Vox some of them are Kuthu Fire-2017, Mad Dreams-2019 and more.
Favorite Things
- Composer: AR Rahman
- Song: Hey Mama by David Guetta
- Sports – Tennis
- Hobbies – Watching Tennis, Shopping, Travelling
Interesting facts
- She works for Carnatic music as a classical singer under the guidance of D.K. Nagarajan.
- Vidya passionated in singing since she was a 5-year-old girl
- Her all-time favorite singer is Yesudas.
- She inspired mostly from A.R. Rahman, Beyonce, Coldplay, Adele, Nithyasree, Rashid Khan.
- She created her YouTube channel Vidya Vox to show her musical and singing skills in 2015.
- Vidya also performs at The White House, Webster Hall, Reunion Island, and National Center for the Performing Arts.
- Initially, Vidya worked with the Shankar Tuckers as a singer.
- Vidya’s videos got the attention of many Bollywood actors like Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Diplo, and Major Lazer.
- she can speak various languages like English, French, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi.
- Vidya’s eating habit is non-vegetarian.
- The most popular video on her YouTube channel is the Be Free (Pallivaalu Bhadravattakam), which reached more than 200 million views.
- She got 1 million channel subscribers in December 2016.
- She is to sing Carnatic kritis, bhajans, and AR Rahman songs at home.
- Vidya worked with famous musicians in her mashup of Lean On & Jind Mahi as Ricky Jatt, Roginder Violinder Momi, and Raashi Kulkarni.