A trip to the Himalayan Mountains in northern India helped lead New York-born indie pop artist Doe Paoro back to music.
“I was actually quitting music,” she said. “I was taking time to actually figure out what my next move was gonna be. Because I felt like I kind of needed to give that up.”

Paoro is kicking off a multi-city tour with Lafayette-based band Givers with a performance at The Spanish Moon tonight at 9 p.m. The singer is headlining the show and said when she was handed the opportunity to play at the Baton Rouge venue, she took it.
After her performance at Spanish Moon, Paoro will be opening for Givers throughout their tour. The shows will run up the East Coast to New York and then will head west and play at venues in Chicago. This is not the first time the groups have toured together, leading to an already comfortable relationship.
Paoro said she considers her music a portal to a spiritual place of healing and expression.
Before traveling, she was in a band that wasn’t working out, which lead to the trip that helped her find music again, she said.
The sound is inspired by nature, her travels in northern India and meditation she learned there. While she was in northern India she was also trained in Lhamo, a Tibetan folk opera, something Paoro accredits as an influence to her music.
After traveling and finding inspiration from her music, Paoro returned home. She wrote the beginnings of her debut album, “Slow to Love,” isolated in a cabin right outside Syracuse, New York.
Paoro said her music has a different sound from other artists, which is inspired by many different things throughout her life.
While the artist couldn’t put down exactly what makes her music stand out, she hinted it’s perhaps what the listener takes out of it. If anything, she said she wants her listeners to feel rejuvenated and healed after listening to a track, exactly what the music does to her.
For tonight’s performance, she said she will be playing most of the music from her second album “After,” which was released in September.
The first single released from the album, “Hypotheticals,” was featured on Season 4 of the HBOseries “Girls.”
Ship of Fools and Summer Fits will also be performing at the show. General admission tickets are $10.