It took working within the music industry for Kiran Gandhi (known onstage as Madame Gandhi) to realize she wanted to be as an artist — and what she didn't want.
Working as a digital analyst for Interscope Records, the now-31-year-old star tracked patterns in Spotify streams and YouTube views, before coming to her own conclusion about the way the major label music business works. "I just saw how systematized the whole record label process is," she says. "There were aspects of that where I was like, 'Wow, it's just an engine.' It's not good or bad, it's just an organized engine that's designed to pump money into something, and then they have a staff designed to market it." That's what Gandhi tells singer-songwriter and host Shea Diamond on