Sowmya is a music journalist and pop culture expert with over 15 years of experience. Her work can be found in publications like Rolling Stone, Billboard, XXL, Playboy, High Snobiety, Complex, New York Magazine, Village Voice and Time. She specializes in interviewing artists—especially in hip-hop—from J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar to Ariana Grande, Travis $cott and Alicia Keys.
As an on-air host, she has appeared on MTV, MSNBC, VH1, Hot 97, Build Series, E!, BET, CNN, NPR, BBC, and more. Her work has been aired in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Israel.
She hosted and programmed SiriusXM’s The Look Out radio show.
A respected industry leader and authority in hip-hop, she been invited as a speaker and moderator for SXSW, Music Biz, SoundCloud, Amazon Music and Pandora.
Her first book: Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion is coming October 2023 from Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster.
Sowmya began her career at William Morris Endeavor’s Agent Training Program, CNN and Bad Boy Records.
She is a graduate of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.