{"id":8167,"date":"2011-03-31T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-02T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:04:53","slug":"Tina-Sugandh--taking-over-video-networks-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8167","title":{"rendered":"Tina Sugandh &#8211; taking over video networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Born in Mumbai, raised in New Jersey &#8211; music has always been an integral part of pop sensation <strong>TINA\u2019s<\/strong> life. Singing and performing since 5 years old, she had an early start with a very musical family who toured as a professional group on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>While her family may have been a traveling, touring act to a degree, the importance of academics and family values was instilled by her parents. School was always an integral part of <strong>TINA\u2019s<\/strong> youth \u2013 yet after graduation, the young scholar set aside an honors biology degree and being accepted into an accelerated medical program to follow her passion for music.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\n<div class=\"pullquoteTop\">\n<blockquote><p>\nI would also advise living the way my mom lived every single day of her life, which is to \u201csee the good-and ONLY the good in everything and everyone\u201d since there are a ton of heartbreaks in this industry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"pullquoteAttribute\">Tina Sugandh<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since then, the rising star has been on a musical journey experimenting in a few different genres \u2013 complete with having worked with everyone from Ringo to Fat Joe. No stranger to the spotlight, <strong>TINA<\/strong> has been on camera for everything from musical touring to media interviews, to acting in dramatic soap operas to Indian comedies to VJ-ing a show for three years that was broadcasted in 150 million households around the world. <strong>TINA<\/strong> is currently very excited about her rebranding with a sexy new image and hot edgy urban pop sound.<\/p>\n<p>Like many breaking artists who are likened to their successors, <strong>TINA often gets compared to Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls<\/strong>, as well as mega talents Prince and Shakira because of her multi talent ability to sing, dance and play multiple instruments. She plays several instruments with guitar and tabla (an Indian drum) being her main focus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TINA<\/strong> has surrounded herself with an impeccable team of supertalents, both on the creative and business end. For her single, \u201cSo Good\u201d, superstar Fat Joe is a featured guest. The track is the masterpiece of the stellar musical pair of Charlie Hype and Jim Beanz of Timbaland Productions (Katy Perry, Jamie Foxx, Justin Timberlake). Written by Jim Beanz, the innovative \u201cSo Good\u201d track was produced by Charlie Hype, which proves to be a perfect match for the sensual, exotic beauty. <\/p>\n<p>The smokin&#8217; hot video has also been added to music and video programming for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines both in the US and UK, Disney Cruise Lines, Hilton and Marriott Hotel chains, McDonald&#8217;s, Macy&#8217;s, American Eagle Outfitters, Gold&#8217;s Gym, Hard Rock Cafe and close to 100 other outlets.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><strong>Tina featuring Fat Joe &#8216;So Good&#8217; Music Video. What a hot song!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nWXhnhGDvl0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>ASIANCE: Growing up in a very musical family, by default, you were exposed to performing and expressing yourself through music. Besides that, what attracted you about being a musical artist? <\/h3>\n<p><b>Tina:<\/b> There were so many attractive things about being an artist! I started performing with my family when I was five, and from the start my parents taught me that music was all about \u201cuplifting the masses\u201d.  They showed me that you could send people on a rollercoaster of emotions just through music. My dad, who is a hysterical MC\/mimic\/comedian would make everyone laugh, then we would sing everything from ghazals to bhangra to garbaa, to sindhi ladaas, to film songs, and tons more! The tears and smiles and laughter and happiness on the audience faces most attracted me to this business.  One example of how I still implement this in my solo career is that I have been recently going to high schools all over the country to perform and to also talk to the students about various topics like bullying, education, how beautiful their individuality is, and more!<\/p>\n<h3>ASIANCE: You&#8217;ve been in the entertainment industry for a while. What has it been like living almost your entire life as an entertainer? <\/h3>\n<p><b>Tina:<\/b> It\u2019s been simply amazing. There are things I had to give up of course (such as being on my high school basketball team since that involved weekend games, and missing all my friends birthday parties since I would be on tour, and basically having any kind of social life) but I am only grateful for all of my experiences! I would say the two greatest things about performing with my family were the incredibly strong family bond that resulted from years of weekend touring together, and also being able to retain certain aspects of my culture while growing up in this country. I now proudly have the skills to impress any Auntie\/Uncle out there by busting out into a full Gujurati garba song, or an old Punjabi folk song, or a ghazal, and much more! Lol! In fact, I sang \u201cAwaz De Kahaan Hai\u201d for a eldery Indian women a few weeks ago and she started singing with me, and then started tearing because she was so happy! What\u2019s better than that?!<\/p>\n<h3>ASIANCE: If you weren&#8217;t in the entertainment business, what do you think you would be pursuing in life? <\/h3>\n<p><b>Tina:<\/b> I really do not know! I\u2019m SO bad at the \u201cwhat if\u201d game! This is the path I\u2019ve chosen, and I have some serious tunnel vision! I want what I want and I will work my tail off and not think about what else I could be doing until I have reached my goal\u2026and then it\u2019s onto the next goal!  Although, I did graduate from college with honors in biology, and I did get accepted into a medical program, so I guess maybe I would have moved forward in that direction? <\/p>\n<div class=\"imgRight\">\n<div><a rel=\"lightbox[picture]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg\" title=\"Tina Sugandh\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg\" alt=\"Tina Sugandh\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"imgCaption\">Tina Sugandh<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>ASIANCE: You released your single, &#8220;So Good,&#8221; featuring Fat Joe. Can you talk about the single and how you met Fat Joe? <\/h3>\n<p><b>Tina:<\/b> This single \u201cSo Good\u201d is my first mainstream single! It was created by the absolutely genius team of Charlie Hype and Jim Beanz. They actually both make appearances in the music video! Charlie is the driver of that hot Maybach, and Jim sits to the right of me in the VIP booth! As far as Fat Joe, The Sunset Group had connections to him, and I personally think he took the song to a whole new level! We had a really great time at the two-day video shoot too! Fat Joe is just really cool and laid-back and sweet. The director of \u201cSo Good\u201d was none other than Paul Coy Allen who is just one of the coolest, funniest, down-to-earth guys I\u2019ve ever worked with. He\u2019s directed Timbaland, Katy Perry, Drake, Justin Timberlake, and more. We also had The Style Network show \u201cJerseylicious\u201d out at the shoot since they covered the making of my video in one of their episodes!<\/p>\n<h3>ASIANCE: What&#8217;s next on your agenda in your career? <\/h3>\n<p><b>Tina:<\/b> I have so many goals, and suddenly I have so many different avenues to get there, which I am incredibly grateful for! I would say in general, I just want to continue to gather that massive fan base so I can continue to give back to the world in bigger and bigger ways. (I know that\u2019s a very \u201cMiss America\u201d answer, but it\u2019s the truth!) <\/p>\n<h3>ASIANCE: From your personal experience, what would be one very important piece of advice you would give to those pursuing the same entertainer path like you? <\/h3>\n<p><b>Tina:<\/b> I would advise balance. Get out there and work your tail off and do it all! I got an honors degree in Biology and a record deal at the same time by just implementing a great amount of focus, discipline, and drive, and I feel that balance is a beautiful thing to have in order to accomplish it all. I would also advise living the way my mom lived every single day of her life, which is to \u201csee the good-and ONLY the good in everything and everyone\u201d since there are a ton of heartbreaks in this industry no matter who you are or how talented you are. What\u2019s the point of dwelling on the negative anyway? Life\u2019s too short for that-and negativity is completely futile anyway! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Mumbai, raised in New Jersey &#8211; music has always been an integral part of pop sensation TINA\u2019s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":62670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-200x300.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-300x272.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-300x205.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-130x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-300x445.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-150x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-300x417.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-285x450.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-300x198.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"NUZ","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/da69c3b09bc28e47bfa888e09e30ae7ccec068962d2718f06921758a97ed5157?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"4","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Born in Mumbai, raised in New Jersey &#8211; music has always been an integral part of pop sensation TINA\u2019s life.","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":218,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":7,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1.jpg",300,450,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-200x300.jpg",200,300,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201104_Tina_pic1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"NUZ","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=41"},"magazine_blocks_comment":4,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/da69c3b09bc28e47bfa888e09e30ae7ccec068962d2718f06921758a97ed5157?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}