Madame Gandhi

About

Kiran Gandhi, who performs as Madame Gandhi, is an award-winning artist and activist known for her uplifting, percussive electronic music and message of personal power.

She began producing in 2015 after her London Marathon free-bleeding story went viral, challenging menstrual stigma worldwide.

She was the former drummer for GRAMMY-nominated artist M.I.A, and has been recognized as a TED Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Music, and BBC 100 Women.

While pursuing a Masters in Music, Science and Technology at Stanford University, she traveled to Antarctica to record melting glaciers, using sound to inspire empathy around climate change. She partnered with Earth Percent’s Sounds Right program to credit NATURE as an artist on her latest music, redirecting streaming royalties to planetary conservation.

She has since received the Songwriters Hall of Fame Abe Olman Prize and is a 2026 Alicia Keys “She is the Music” Vanguard Honoree. She is also a 2026 Billboard Culture Shifter FEMMY Nominee.

Gandhi holds a bachelor's degree in math and women’s studies from Georgetown (2011) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (2015).

Today she travels internationally to speak and perform, using her music as a message for gender liberation, sustainability and thriving.