The punk band Kamala Harris took her cousin to see live

In interviews over the past few years, American politics Kamala Harrisrevealed that he is a fan of jazz, soul and a little hip-hop. It’s difficult to imagine an authority of such stature at a punk rock show, but this already happened at the beginning of the century — at least according to a relative.

Sharada Balachandran Orihuela is her younger cousin Kamalaon my mother’s side. The two lived together when Sharada moved to the United States.

The cousin of Kamala was born in Mexico, but studied in India. In the South Asian country, he learned to like punk rock, although there were few local artists in the style.

She herself explained to the agency EFE:

I went to high school in India and there weren’t many punk rock shows there. I listened to music on my Walkman and when I moved to the States, I thought now I could go to all those shows.”

This was around 2001, when Sharada went to live with Kamalawho at the time was still working as a lawyer, and her mother, Shyamalain Oakland, in the US state of California. In addition to attending college in the United States, the young woman got the opportunity from her older cousin to watch one of her favorite bands live: Bad Religionwho performed in San Francisco, also in California.

Although the group has never officially expressed any kind of support for Kamala In electoral disputes, it seems to have good circulation among musicians in general. In 2024, Kamala Harris lost the American election to donald trumpbut had support from artists such as Charli XCX, Pink, Beyonce, Megan Thee Stallion, Bon Iver and Jason Isbell.

About Bad Religion

Active since 1980, the Bad Religion is one of the most famous punk rock bands to emerge in that decade. Influential name especially for the dissemination of so-called pop punk in later times, the group carries political messages in practically all of its songs. Although he did not declare a vote in Kamalathe group has already stated that the album Age of Unreason (2019) is a declaration of “hate” towards donald trump. The same has already happened with The Empire Strikes First (2004), ungratefully “dedicated” to the then president George W. Bush.

From the original lineup, three members remain: the vocalist Greg Graffinthe guitarist Brett Gurewitz and the bassist Jay Bentley. In addition to politics, the group also deals with social issues, science — since Graffin He has a PhD in zoology — and religion, critically, in his lyrics.

Collaborated: André Luiz Fernandes.