Raja Kumari. Pic/Madeleine Kobold

It's a different kind of pain when you write songs for other people. So, it's like you sing a song, and put your heart into it, and then the producers ask you, 'oh! That was great. Who is going to sing that?' And in your head you think, me! Who else?" says singer Raja Kumari, who is down from Los Angeles to promote her first album, The Come Up, which was released by Sony and Epic Records last month.'