Sheila Chandra
The household I grew up in was chaotic. By the time I was 16, I had a top-10 hit and, by the age of 27 in the 1990s, an international career as a ‘groundbreaking’ artist in the Asian-influenced world-fusion genre. As a performer, I had a highly creative approach to my music, ignoring trends and trying instead to define the boundaries of world music and my own voice. But those old chaotic habits I learned as a child were entrenched in every area of my life. My house always looked like a bomb site. I worked 16-hour days, often seven days a week.
THE ‘CREATIVE CHAOS’ FALLACY