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“Tragedy,” became the cornerstone upon which Dhruv began to build Private Blizzard, an album that explores his season of despair. Its title borrowed from “The City Planners,” a Margaret Atwood poem he treasured as a closeted queer teenager in Singapore, Private Blizzard confronts feelings of self-doubt, loneliness, rejection, and malaise with a dozen shimmering neo-soul anthems and classic ballads.

In Spring 2023, Dhruv arrived in Nashville to meet with producer JT Daly who empowered him by demanding he actually doubt himself, to question what exactly his songs should contain. By week’s end, “Tragedy”—now a beautiful and seemingly effortless reflection on a very difficult time—was done. Dhruv realized he had found the musical partner he’d sought his entire life.

Over the next several months, Dhruv returned repeatedly to Nashville, ultimately cowriting every number on Private Blizzard with Daly. Most of us have our version of a “private blizzard,” the tumultuous things we conceal in order to function in this world, to get by as best we can. The gift of art is that someone shares theirs, extending it so that we might all feel less alone, crazy, or depressed. With Private Blizzard, Dhruv shows us the inner workings of one of the lowest periods of his life by singing the very songs that were not only his map of those hardships but his map out of them, too.

Presented by AEG.

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