Ahead of @wonderflip festival (next week!), we met with Aliya Rashid—the woman behind it all. Hailing from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, Rashid and her cousins grew up running along old hotel alleyways (courtesy her folks’ Jehan Numa Palace Hotel), sprawled out amidst picnic spreads and flitting between boating expeditions and long hours reading Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl.
Inspiration for Wonderflip has been with her all her life: “While I am not a musician, my love for music came early, all thanks to my mother: from Julio Iglesias, to Dean Martin, Sinatra, to the Beatles and ABBA and so much more. I was the only one in boarding school who carried a small boombox and used to make mix tapes for friends,” she recalled fondly.
More (and details on where to find tickets) here: http://bit.ly/nico-wonderflip