Singer Raveena Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted on Tour

A harrowing expertise. Singer Raveena revealed that she was not too long ago sexually assaulted whereas on tour in Latin America.

“I used to be sexually assaulted a couple of days in the past and it’s been a number of the most devastating and heartbreaking occasions I’ve had in a very very long time,” the Indian-American artist, 27, tweeted on Friday, November 11. “I would appreciate if u could respect my personal space as a lot as doable for the remainder of tour whereas I discover my sense of normalcy.”

The Massachusetts native, who’s at the moment selling her new album, Asha’s Awakening, added that she wouldn’t title the perpetrator as a result of “I don’t wanna give that particular person the facility to f—okay with this lovely second for my profession.”

Regardless of the horrific occasion, the “If Solely” artist shared that it’s been a “enormous blessing” to tour internationally. “I’m so excited to complete off the remainder of the tour robust & along with your life,” she concluded.

Following the information, followers rushed to the remark part to point out their assist for the songstress.

“I’m so sorry this occurred to you Raveena. Sending you a lot love and therapeutic power. Please do no matter you need to to care for your self!” one Twitter consumer wrote, whereas one other replied, “My coronary heart breaks for you… Deal with your self with kindness and compassion at this time (and past).”

“I’m so sorry, that’s terrible. Can’t imagine individuals nonetheless assume forcing anybody to do something is suitable. Sending you a lot of therapeutic power, the ptsd you’ll have will take time to beat, however you’ll. Thanks for being robust and susceptible to share,” a 3rd particular person stated.

Whereas selling her new file — an idea album that follows a Punjabi house princess touring by way of time and throughout planets — Raveena opened as much as Rolling Stone in February about tapping into her emotions to search out inspiration.

“A part of why we really feel pleasure, is as a result of we additionally really feel ache so deeply,” she defined. “However there’s a variety of magnificence in what number of completely different feelings we expertise, and in the end, I feel that’s what I used to be making an attempt to seize.”

Since her 2017 debut, the New York resident has been vocal about turning music right into a refuge as an Indian-American artist.

“It could positively be difficult being a South Asian artist and never having loads to go off of in Western music tradition,” she informed Them journal in April 2020. “It’s simple to really feel tremendous displaced and confused, like, ‘The place do I match into all this?’ However that’s additionally essentially the most thrilling half about it. There isn’t a framework so you possibly can invent your individual.”

To work by way of her historical past with “abuse” and “intergenerational trauma” as a baby of Indian immigrants, Raveena shared that she has devoted her house within the business to being a voice for fellow “brown weirdos” and people who really feel they don’t belong.

“I need to create an area for every type of outsiders,” she stated on the time. “Survivors, queer individuals, individuals with melancholy, individuals who simply felt like they didn’t match rising up.”