Fijiana on Her Debut India Performance and Why Her Next Song Will Address Immigration

Bay Area-based Indo-Fiji artist Fijiana. Image: Courtesy of the artist

When you score a breakout hit, doors get opened. For Fiji-origin, Bay Area-based Fijiana, she got welcomed to carry out at the halftime program of the Oakland Roots Sports Club home video game on Apr. 18, 2026. She remembers how some remained in participation simply to capture her efficiency, following the success of tunes like “Welcome to the Bay” and “STA.”

Fijiana states over a video call from the U.S. an Indian-origin household fulfilled her right after the efficiency. “There was an older male who brought his entire household and he was type of shy, however his child resembled, ‘He brought all of us here! He resembled, we need to go support her!’ That was so lovely to see,” she states.

She’s likewise got a lot of love from Indo-Fijian folks for putting their culture on the map. “It warms my heart to see the diaspora seem like they see themselves in me,” Fijiana states. In the months considering that the identity-focused hood anthem “Welcome to the Bay” accumulated majority a million streams throughout platforms, the artist has actually gone on to launch a sensuous single “STA” and support R&B powerhouse Kehlani. Now, she’s on her method to make her launching India efficiency at BUDX NBA House in New Delhi on May 9, 2026, together with the similarity NAV, Reble, Yashraj, The Bausa and more. She states, “I feel so thrilled to even have this connection with India through music, and I get to go remain in India through work.”

It’s a fast 15-minute set for Fijiana, so she assures her best-known tunes up until now–“Identity, “” Welcome to the Bay “and”STA”– carried out with dancers from the Sacramento Kings dance team. “I’m doing sort of the tunes that I tend to do for a larger arena type of audience. I wished to select 2 tunes that I enjoy dancing to,”she states with a laugh.

Beyond the efficiencies, Fijiana prepares a mix of work and play. She states, “I wish to have a studio session [with Indian artists]I seem like that would be perfect.”She stops briefly and includes, “I simply wish to fulfill individuals. I was speaking with my good friend the other day, I resembled,’Hopefully I get to construct with somebody hot when I’m there.'”

That sort of talk is something Fijiana has actually constantly shown in her music, right from her launching album Thirst in 2022 and songs like “Sanskari Hoe”with New Delhi manufacturer duo MadStarBase. Then, she likewise showed on life in the Bay Area, with a track that blew up since it showcased simply how inviting and multiculturally varied the area on the West Coast U.S. was. She states, “I understood I was making a tune about the Bay, however it was likewise really cultural in such a way, and I would not anticipate it to go as type of mainstream, like in American culture– it didn’t actually cross my mind. The truth that individuals type of simply took it and accepted it, specifically in the Bay, which is, like, where my audience actually is … it resembled, ‘Oh, y’ all accept this Indo-Fiji immigrant woman in your neighborhood, in your hearts.'”

Naturally, Fijiana states there is a level of pressure that follows tunes have actually exploded internationally, like”Welcome to the Bay”and “STA”have. Her next product likewise speaks about uniqueness, however in a various method. Like her snarling 2021 single “Identity, “which called out appropriation and happily declared her Indo-Fiji roots, Fijiana states the next tune addresses “migration problems.” She acknowledges that hip-hop is indicated for “freedom and to bring awareness to problems.” Fijiana discusses, “I believe it’s needed [to talk about these issues]I seem like I’m in hip-hop, and I believe I highly feel– particularly as brown individuals in hip-hop, we can laugh at things and whatever– however if we’re not utilizing hip-hop as a tool, then we’re simply type of in appropriation. I do not wish to live that method.”