India Arie

INDIA.ARIE is known and cherished by fans and fellow musicians as a poet, a songwriter, a musician, an advocate, a friend and a philanthropist -- but she is possibly best known for the love in her music that has inspired and motivated people worldwide.

India.Arie has sold over 8 million albums worldwide, including the double-platinum Acoustic Soul, the platinum Voyage to India and her number one album Testimony: Vol.1, Life & Relationship. Her honors include 17 Grammy nominations, 2 Grammy Awards, 4 NAACP Image Awards, and various awards from BET, Billboard, MTV, VH-1, Vogue, Essence, and others. Her songs have appeared in such films as Sex and the City, The Secret Life of Bees, and Diary of a Mad Black Woman, just to name a few.

India.Arie has often stood with her peers in the top echelon of entertainment as an activist for global health and human dignity. The understated politics of her Grammy-honored music have also been on open display ever since Oprah Winfrey pointedly thanked her for writing the sentiment, "I may not be built like a supermodel/But I've learned to love myself unconditionally." As a U.S. Ambassador for UNICEF, she traveled to Africa several times to address the AIDS crisis, and filmed the VH-1 documentary Tracking the Monster: Ashley Judd & India.Arie Confront Aids in Africa. "I Am Not My Hair" was central to Lifetime Television's recent "Stop Breast Cancer for Life" public awareness campaign, "Beautiful Flower" was used for fund-raising for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.