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These 7 Foreign Influencers Have Made India Their New Home

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These 7 Foreign Influencers Have Made India Their New Home

They love Indians and Indian culture, Indian food, and Indian diversity. They live in India and create amazing content as well. The catch – they are foreign influencers who have made India their home for years now. Increasingly, you can spot them at events, interviewing actors, creating desi content, and yes speaking fluent Hindi too.

These foreign influencers have followers from all over the world, giving them a broad audience reach. Their content can transcend borders and cultural barriers. They bring fresh views and insights into Indian society, lifestyle, and traditions, which intrigues Indian and international people.

Even brands that seek to expand their visibility in India collaborate with foreign influencers to promote their products.

Let’s look at the list of foreign influencers and content creators. Furthermore, who are living happily in India and doing very well for themselves.

Drew Hicks

American content creator Drew Hicks has massive visibility on social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube. His upbringing in India, particularly in Varanasi and Patna, contributed to his deep connection to the culture. He was recently honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the National Creators Award ceremony in New Delhi. A US citizen, Hicks has been living in India for over a decade with an amazing command of Hindi and Bhojpuri languages. People are in awe of him for his language skills and engaging content. He promotes India’s culture globally and even urges creators to flaunt their creativity to narrate stories about India.

Olly Esse

Olly is a popular Italian DJ, influencer, and content creator. Besides, who has been living in Mumbai for quite some time now. Well known in the fitness and music fields, she has played alongside world-class DJs like Martin Garrix, Alan Walker, EDM, and Hardwell, and also at Sunburn Festival. When she is not working, she often uploads videos exploring Mumbai and other cities of India. What we love about her the most is she likes to wear sarees and seems to be quite comfortable in them.  In one of the videos, Olly can be seen enjoying Mumbai’s famous aam raas with puri. Take a look!

Aparna Mulberry

Aparna is a Chilean-American English teacher based out of Kerala. Her Instagram profile ‘Inverted Coconut’ is quite popular for her English lessons and entertaining content relating to Malayalam comedy. When she was three years old, her parents moved to spiritual leader Amritanandamayi’s ashram in Kollam. She did her primary and higher secondary schooling from Amrita Vidyalayam. She is well-versed in languages like English, Malayalam, Spanish, and Latin. Moreover, She came into the limelight in March 2022 after she participated as a contestant in the Indian reality show Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 4.

Nick Booker

Britisher Nick Booker has been living in India since 2007. He is well-versed with Indian history and its culture. He is quite popular on Instagram for his short videos on India’s history and heritage and has 212K followers on Instagram. However, He became Insta-famous in merely four months from the time he started making videos from trivia. About lemons from northeast India to the type of bricks used to make Delhi’s Safdarjung Tomb. Nick believes that his content works because of the novelty factor of a foreigner sharing details not always known to locals. Nick recently visited the Himalayas and has posted a video. Furthermore, in which he can be seen talking in depth about the place and the knowledge he holds about India.

Caleb Friesen

Podcaster and Canadian national Caleb has made India his home in the last six years. He and his wife live in Bangalore and he has 12.7K followers on Twitter. Take a look at this cute picture of him with his newborn.

Karl Rock

Karl Edward Rice, who is better known as Karl Rock, is a New Zealand blogger and YouTuber based in India. In 2013, Karl visited India and started making videos for foreign tourists in 2018. However, he decided to get settled in India in 2019. Karl is best recognized for his vlogs, which are centered around his travels in the Indian subcontinent. He has 227K followers on Instagram and 2.91 subscribers on YouTube. He says that his videos are not for Indian audiences but today he has a roughly 50-50 breakup mix of Indian to foreign audiences. Further, making him one of the most followed bloggers and YouTubers.

Jessica Kumar

American Jessica Kumar is quite famous for her Hindi lessons on Instagram. As per her Insta bio, she has been living in India for 18 years now. However, helping kids and adults learn fluent Hindi through podcasts and online classes. She often shares her experiences of living in India. In one of the videos, Jessica shared her story about what inspired her to marry a man from Bihar. Furthermore, how it was to become a bahu in an Indian family to now being happily married with two kids.

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