Vocalist and songwriter Asha Puthli was well-known in her native India before emigrating to New York in the late 1960s. She made a splash in the jazz world when appearing on records by Charlie Mariano and on Ornette Coleman's seminal Science Fiction in 1971. Further, she anticipated several major developments in Western popular music with four albums she released for CBS Europe. 1976's The Devil Is Loose showcased her slinky vocals deployed above pulsing electronic beats, anticipating Euro disco. She focused on acting, modeling, and raising a child during the '80s but returned to recording with 1990's Hari Om. Sampled often by rappers and dance-music producers, Puthli was a forerunner of East-West fusion in dance styles so popular among clubgoers. She returned to performing in 2006 and released Lost in 2009. In 2019 she was a featured collaborator on Gabriel Grillotti's single "Je Crois C'est Ça L'amour."