Bahari Biography

Coming out of the Southern California community of Manhattan Beach the all-female modern trio Bahari which is vocalist/bassist Natalia Panzarella vocalist/keyboardist Ruby Carr and vocalist/guitarist Sidney Sartini embody a youthful reflection of the creative spirit of the coastal lifestyle. “I grew up on an island off the coast of Kenya called Lamu and Swahili is my first language” Ruby explains. “We were all hanging out one day and the girls were asking me about words in Swahili and I told them that ‘bahari’ meant ocean. We thought it would make a great name for our group. We all grew up around the ocean and are very much inspired by it. Plus our music has a summery California vibe so it just felt right.”
With collective influences that span singer-songwriter folk and classic rock to contemporary pop the members of Bahari have created a radiant harmony-rich brightly melodic sound. The songs range from the upbeat clap-happy pop of “Dancing On The Sun” and “Summer Forever” to the neo-psychedelic rock stylings of “Altar of the Sun” to the spare moody ballad and first single “Wild Ones” which finds the girls asserting an almost feral us-against-the-world pack mentality when they sing: “We wake up to the sun / Burning while we’re young / We’re the wild ones / Raised by the wolves / We howl to the moon.” Warming to that theme they refuse to “play by the rules” on “Reckless Youth” which Sidney describes as a song about “doing what you want and being free.” The lyrics not only detail the girls’ lives and loves they also offer listeners a sense of what it’s like to be a spirited independent-minded 18-year-old woman in 2016.

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