Jasmine Bharucha

{{Short description|Indian-Canadian singer and author}}

Jasmine Bharucha (also spelled Barucha) is an Indian-Canadian singer and author.

Bharucha grew up in Mumbai and in 1990 became the first performer from India to appear on MTV Asia.{{cite web |title=Jasmine Bharucha |url=https://musikandfilm.com/artists/jasmine-bharuch/ |publisher=Musik and Film |access-date=13 September 2024}} She released her debut album Alien Desire with Magnasound Records in 1991, along with a music video for the song "Alone Now".{{cite news |last1=Bhattacharjee |first1=Rudradeep |title=Why 1992 is the year the song changed in India |url=https://scroll.in/reel/1033799/why-1992-is-the-year-the-song-changed |access-date=13 September 2024 |work=Scroll.in |date=28 September 2022}} The video featured her in a "big brass bed with black satin sheets".{{cite book |last1=Dalrymple |first1=William |author-link=William Dalrymple|title=The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters |date=1998 |page=153 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing |isbn=978-0-307-94893-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7W9b9FNAhQIC&pg=PT153 |access-date=13 September 2024}}

In 1992, Bharucha married and emigrated to Vancouver, Canada.{{cite news |last1=Sangghvi |first1=Malavika |title=Whatever happened to? |url=https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/whatever-happened-to--15418158 |access-date=13 September 2024 |work=Mid-Day |date=2 July 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Sangghvi |first1=Malavika |title=Malavika's Mumbaistan: Rocking Around The Clock |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/malavika-s-mumbaistan-rocking-around-the-clock/story-96PwFn8hV1stKATl1s40PO.html |access-date=13 September 2024 |work=Hindustan Times |date=5 July 2019}} She became a realtor and wrote Who Am I?, a children's book about mindfulness.{{cite news |last1=Nicol |first1=Janet |title=Former Indian pop star Jasmine Bharucha finds new voice in Canada |url=https://canadianimmigrant.ca/people/former-indian-pop-star-jasmine-bharucha-finds-new-voice-in-canada |access-date=13 September 2024 |work=Canadian Immigrant |date=5 June 2015}}{{cite web |title=About Jasmine Bharucha |url=http://www.jasminebharuchamusic.com/about.php |access-date=13 September 2024}}