Career
She has sung in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu and added to it, she sings in Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and other Latin languages. Her first song was "Fanaa" for the movie Yuva. She has a running collaboration with Arkansas Rahman and has sung a number of songs for him, including songs from Sillunu Oru Kadhal, Slumdog Millionaire and recently Delhi-6.
She wrote the Spanish lyrics for "Jai Ho".
Her success with Arkansas Rahman got her invitations from leading music directors and she has sung for Yuvan Shankar Raja, Amit Trivedi and other music directors. Rahman and Gulzar in the 52nd for the song Jai Ho, for writing the Spanish lyrics for the song.
With the success of Slumdog Millionaire, Shah has been featured in Snoop Dogg"s song "Snoop Dogg Millionaire". She performed for the Yuvan - Live in Concert in January 2011 in Chennai and in Malaysia at the KLIMF in 2012.
She also performed at Coke Studio concert at Indian Institutes of Management Bangalore on 22 November 2013, featuring Amit Trivedi.
She was invited to speak at the TEDxSF conference on Global Health in November "12. While she has done her fair share of playback singing for the film industry in India, she is an international star. Tanvi sings in Spanish, Portuguese, Afro-Cuban, Arabic besides Hindi, Tamil and Telugu and experiments with a wide range of music with her band.
Her adaptability has been proven in her collaborative work with international music producers such as Gio Ortega (United States of America),Jeremy Hawkins (United States of America), Che Pope (United States of America), David Batteau (United States of America), and DJ Salah of Germany.
Tanvi has walked the green carpet at the Latin Grammy in 2011 while promoting her song, “Lluvia Lejana”, with Gustavo Alarco, and recently shared the stage with Lebohang Morake, South African singer and composer, famous for arranging and performing the music for The Lion King movies and stage productions. She firmly believes that we all need to give back to society.
She is actively involved with the Cancer Institute and with the “End Polio” campaign of Rotary International along with Amitabh Bachan, A. R. Rahman and Anil Kapoor.