{"id":53478,"date":"2025-07-08T17:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/shilpa-sharda-breaks-barriers-in-indian-music-with-sanju-rathod-farhan-khan-cheema-y-more\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T17:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:58:24","slug":"shilpa-sharda-breaks-barriers-in-indian-music-with-sanju-rathod-farhan-khan-cheema-y-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/shilpa-sharda-breaks-barriers-in-indian-music-with-sanju-rathod-farhan-khan-cheema-y-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Shilpa Sharda Breaks Barriers in Indian Music with Sanju Rathod, Farhan Khan, Cheema Y &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 8:<\/strong> In an industry where female leadership is underrepresented, Shilpa Sharda of Believe leads with vision, empathy, and impact. In the Indian music industry \u2014 where leadership roles have too often been a boys\u2019 club \u2014 Shilpa Sharda is making space and making history. As Director at Believe Artists, one of the world\u2019s leading digital music companies, Shilpa stands out as a rare female voice in executive leadership \u2014 and more importantly, as a transformative one.<\/p>\n<p>Recently invited to the TEDx stage, Shilpa shared a deeply personal story of rejection, resilience, and reinvention. She spoke candidly about the stereotypes she faced \u2014 being called \u201ctoo emotional\u201d for leadership, being overlooked in rooms where decisions were made, and being underestimated in an industry slow to accept women in power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmpathy isn\u2019t my weakness \u2013 it\u2019s my leadership edge,\u201d she said during her talk. \u201cIt\u2019s what allows me to build real trust with artists and create systems where they can grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her current role, Shilpa has been a key driver in developing and championing breakthrough talent that\u2019s redefining the Indian music landscape, including Sanju Rathod, Farhan Khan, Cheema Y, and many others. These artists represent diverse regions, sounds, and social narratives, and Shilpa has been instrumental in shaping their journey, not just as music professionals but as cultural voices.<\/p>\n<p>Her commitment to artist development, long-term growth, and authenticity has enabled emerging talent to transcend conventional boundaries, fostering strategic collaborations with platforms such as Spotify, YouTube, and Netflix, and redefining success within India\u2019s independent music landscape.<\/p>\n<p>In an industry that rarely highlights female leadership, let alone celebrates it, Shilpa\u2019s rise is both a milestone and a message. It proves that leadership rooted in emotional intelligence, cultural fluency, and strategic vision isn\u2019t just valid\u2014it\u2019s vital.<\/p>\n<p>Her journey is more than a story of success. It\u2019s a blueprint for change.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have any objection to this press release content, kindly contact pr.error.rectification@gmail.com to notify us. We will respond and rectify the situation in the next 24 hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 8: In an industry where female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-53478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesspoint.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}