Sowmya Krishnamurthy

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About The Author

Sowmya Krishnamurthy is a music journalist and pop culture expert. Her work has been featured in Time, Rolling Stone, Complex, XXL, Playboy, Highsnobiety, and NPR. She is a graduate of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion and The Blueprint: Inside the Business of Roc-A-Fella Records.

Books by Sowmya Krishnamurthy

The Blueprint
Inside the Business of Roc-A-Fella Records
Hit Men meets Dilla Time in this story of how three legacies in the music industry built a business empire—and how three entrepreneurs reimagined what a record label could become.

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Fashion Killa
How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion
A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2024

This “first comprehensive anthology of the marriage between hip-hop and luxury fashion” (The Cut) draws on exclusive interviews to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought...

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