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The raga Kalyāṇi in Karnatak music is a very popular one. M.S. Subbulakshmi probably sang several hundreds of ālāpanas (free melodic improvisations) in Kalyani over the course of her lifetime. One in particular struck me quite strongly, and I decided to learn it and recontextualize it in a way that allowed me to float in and out of M.S.’s alapana, to make a return to ancestry, but on my own terms, in my own body, and honoring my own voice.