Ananya Birla said on Instagram that she is leaving the music industry to focus on her business endeavours. She is the firstborn child of Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla. Several well-known people expressed their surprise and best wishes for Ananya Birla’s future endeavours shortly after she made her decision public.
Shared an official Instagram post that read, “Guys, this has been the hardest decision. I’ve reached a stage where balancing both the businesses I run and am building + music is becoming near impossible and it’s taking a toll on me in ways that I can’t express. Thank you for all the love for the music I’ve released over the years. I hope one day we can appreciate English music made by our own people, as there is so much talent in our own country. Thank you again. It’s time I focused all my energies on the business world.” She captioned the post, “Unforgettable memories, thank you for all the love.”
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Singer Armaan Malik, Sania Mirza, Bobby Deol, and several others offered her love and support while expressing their shock. Armaan Malik wrote, “So sad to hear that, Ananya, but you keep doing you! More power to all your dreams and future endeavours.” Ananya Birla forayed into the music scene with the single ‘Livin the Life in 2016’, which fetched her international recognition. She became the first Indian artist to achieve platinum status for her single.
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She also appeared as a guest on Sirius XM Hits, a top 40 pop radio show that airs nationwide in the US. When Ananya Birla sang the song “Inaam” for the web series “Rudra: The Edge of Darkness,” starring Ajay Devgn, in 2022, she made her debut on the streaming platform.
Birla not only became the first singer from India to have an English-language single go platinum in her nation, but she also started the design company Ikai Asai and the microfinance company Svatantra Microfin. Additionally, last year she was named as a director to the board of Grasim Industries, the Aditya Birla Group’s main company.