# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C69fy3PRpyI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17508678-thefader-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/04368405ea.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-05-14T19:37:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

In one half of her life, Riya Mahesh is Quiet Light, an experimental folk-pop songwriter and producer creating startlingly original songs; in the other, she’s a 22-year-old, third-year student on clinical rotations where her coworkers have no idea of her alter ego. “Sometimes I wake up and I feel like I’m playing a video game, and that’s my life,” she says. “It’s like, ‘What identity do I want to wear today?’”

“My goal whenever I make music,” Mahesh says, “is that someone could just listen to an MP3 file of it, and they don’t know how I look; they don’t know anything about me. [And] They can tell that I’m telling them a story in a Gillian Welch, folk-writing-esque way, but I want it to feel like a dream sequence.”

Read our interview with Quiet Light at the link in bio.

#QuietLight #TheOpener

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