Labeled an Ambassador of The New India, Monica Sharma Dogra is a Maryland raised musician, daughter of Kashmiri immigrants, who grew up listening to Hindu devotional songs, Ghazals, and the Bollywood hits of Lata Mangeshkar. After winning a competition at the age of 16, she debuted at Carnegie Hall and then went on to graduate from NYU’s prestigious music performance program - which catapaulted her to appear in the New York Theatre Circuit doing both plays and musicals. She then found herself in India, while recording a solo-project with Andre Bettes in New York City, the producer of Madonna’s Immaculate Collection. It was there she met her music partner Randolph Correia, and formed the band Shaa’ir. S+F has been named one of India’s favorite bands by VH1, and played at some of the biggest festivals in the world, such as The Big Chill (UK), Midem (France), Glastonbury (UK), OYA (Norway), c/o POP (Germany), Indian Music Fest (Holland).
In 2015 she judged India first ever singing talent hunt show titled 'The Stage'. Shortly after which she released her debut solo album titled 'Spit' that featured collaborations with artists from around the world such as Robot Koch (Germany/LA), Prash 'Engine-Earz' Mistry (UK), Gaurav Raina (India) to name a few.
