Joe Jacob
Adarsha Ramakumar
Bruce Lee Mani
Sandeep Vasishta
Nitesh Nataraj
Matt Goldsborough
Pranav Swaroop B N
Bobby Liebling
Greg Turley
Achyuth Jaigopal
Karthick Iyer
Darbuka Siva
Raghu Dixit
Farhan Akhtar
Benny Dayal
Sonu Nigam
Krishnakumar Kunnath
Arijit Singh
Mika Singh
Naveen Thomas
Wilfred Demoz
Naresh Nathan
Rzhude David
Rahul Pophali
Bryden Lewis
Parth Chandiramani
1. Joe Jacob
Jomon ‘Joe’ Jacob is an Indian drummer living in Bangalore, India. He comes from Thiruvala, a town in Kerala, India. He started his career at the age of 17. Since then, he has played for bands spanning diverse genres such as – rock, progressive metal, and fusion. He has toured the world many times with the famous Raghu Dixit Project. He works as their full-time drummer and percussionist. He has played at Glastonbury Festival, Opera Houses in Sidney, and Colombo (Sri Lanka). Jacob is also a drum instructor and founder of Joe’s Drum School based in Bangalore.Â
...2. Adarsha Ramakumar
Adarsha Ramakumar is the younger son of the famous South Indian Carnatic Mridangam artist K S Ramakumar and his wife, K S Veena. They have two sons- Sriharsha Ramakumar who is a well-known flautist, and Adarsha Ramakumar, who is a violinist. Adarsha Ramakumar was born as well as raised in Bangalore, Karnataka. Having been born into such a musical family, Adarsha started learning to play the violin when he was at the tender age of 6 years. He was taught by Smt. Bhagya Krishna Murthy, and has been under her tutelage for over 13 years.
Adarsha Ramakumar has also said that he is a great admirer of Sri. M S Gopalakrishnan, a veteran of violin in Carnatic music. Adarsha Ramakumar, his elder brother Sriharsha Ramakumar, and their father K S Ramakumar have together and individually played for more than 700 stage performances, mai...
3. Bruce Lee Mani
Bruce Lee Mani is an Indian musician, singer, music educator, songwriter, rock vocalist, and guitar player from Karnataka. He completed his school education at The Home School, Basavanagudi. After that, Bruce Lee Mani went to Christ College, Bangalore, to pursue a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Journalism, Psychology & English Literature. Then, he took M.S in Media & Communication at Bangalore University. His wife's name is Bindu. Bruce Lee Mani worked as a Lecturer in the Department of English at Christ University, Bangalore. He taught English for Pre-University and Bachelors' degree courses. Then, Bruce Lee Mani ran and managed A2G Music, i.e., Bangalore's first music store by musicians for musicians.
He has worked as an Independent Communications Consultant in Bangalore for almost six years. He was respon...
4. Sandeep Vasishta
Sandeep Vasishta is a multi-faceted artist, music composer, producer, performer, and recording artist who has established a successful career in various musical genres. He is Bangalore's most popular and in-demand woodwind artist, performing both live and in the studio. Sandeep, who comes from a musical family, received his first taste of music from his mother, a well-known radio personality. He first breathed into a flute on his mother's lap and hasn't stopped since. Sandeep has played for over 900 movies, 800 albums, 350 ad jingles, 50 television title tracks, 2,000 studio sessions, and 1,500 live events since specializing in Hindustani Classical Music under Pl. Annada Prasanna Pattanaik, a pupil of Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia.
Sandeep's dedication to his craft has led to collaborations with great vocalists such ...
5. Nitesh Nataraj
Nitesh Natrajan is a singer and a musician. He was born on February 25 in Bangalore. He got married to Shraddha Bhat. He has done his studies at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he has given many live performances. He is a great former drummer and percussionist at The Raghu Dixit Project. He had also given live performances as a drummer, which were all appreciated by people, at Hard Rock Café in Mumbai, at Phoenix Marketcity in Bangalore, at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and in many other cities too. He also makes music cover videos with different artists like him on various social media platforms, some of which are: Thinking out loud—Ed Shreen, Neenade Naa—Yuvarathna, Tangled—I see the light—Mandy Moore, and watch over you—Alter Bridge.
...6. Matt Goldsborough
Matt Goldsborough is a famous musician. He is a responsible member of his band and took over the position of Chuck Robinson, who has decided to let go of the band to concentrate on his creatively demanding career. Considering a press release announcing and welcoming former Pentagram guitarist Matt G, he has been relatively steady in his career. He has been highly successful in his career, made a name for himself, and is truly iconic. Even for those who are non-interested in this genre of music, he made it intriguing.
...8. Bobby Liebling
He is a reputed musician and is a member of the popular heavy metal band in Virginia named Pentagram. It is considered primarily among the honorable pioneers of heavy metal music. He has been one of the permanent members and performs as an ace vocalist. He left his previous band Shades of Darkness to join the newly formed band Pentagram, resonating the gloomy undertones the musical genre and consequently the band had. He is mainly an expert of Doom metal, an extreme subgenre of hard rock or metal music, but with slower tempos and heavily intense music to build up the angst.Â
...9. Greg Turley
Greg is a guitarist, bassist in the Pentagram group. The band was initially thought to be named as Macabre due to the darker undercurrents of their themes. The band was superb and improved their game in the 1970’s rock scene, presenting many music tapes, but was interested in releasing a full-fledged album only after reshuffling their initial lineup. Throughout the band’s musical history the only vital member is vocalist Bobby Liebling. The historical lineup of Pentagram has featured many promising musicians in the individual metal scene, with members spending time in other metallic genres such as the Obsessed, Place of Skulls, Internal Void, Spirit Caravan, among many others. The band’s present chronology consists of Liebling (vocals), Matt Goldsborough (guitar), Greg Turley ( bass) and Minnesota Pete Campbell.
...10. Achyuth Jaigopal
Achyuth Jaigopal is a young Indian guitarist. At just 21, he had showcased his skills in over two-hundred shows across nine countries. He also has a music album to his credit, and he is the guitarist of the four-member band When Chai Met Toast. Achyuth’ s music highlights activism which he fuses pretty well. The band has four members namely Ashwin Gopakumar, Pai Sailesh, Palle Francis, and Achyuth Jaigoapal himself.
Ashwin and Achyuth do the songwriting while Sailesh and Francis accompany them on drum set and keyboard. The group was formed in 2015 by Achyuth and Ashwin as they both have the same music interest. When Chai Met Toast is a sensation in Kerala’s music circuit, and the band is one of the promising groups in the country.
Till now they have released an album named The Joy of Little Things. Achyuth i...
11. Karthick Iyer
Music has no language. It has its own spark that everyone can connect themselves with it. It has its own beauty, peace, rhythm. Music plays with emotions beautifully. Karthick Iyer is one of them who plays with music. He is a great violinist, vocalist and playback singer from Chennai. Karthick Iyer has his different style known as Indo soul. Indosoul has its creativity which includes an electronic violin, a mridangam, an acoustic guitar, bass, drums and the vocals.
Karthick Iyer is alive with indosoul. He participates with various musicians. His band involves all the genres, instruments, languages, cultures and break down all the possible hurdles between them which give rise to Indosoul. From his belief, Indosoul is a mixture of all the cultures, customs, traditions whic...
12. Darbuka Siva
Darbuka Siva is a famous self-taught Indian musician, drummer, percussionist, music producer, actor and radio jockey. He was born on 13th March 1982 in North Chennai. He was critically acclaimed for his musical projects "Yodhaka" and" La Pongal". Siva was seventeen when he started learning drums and percussion. His professional career began when he joined the Bengali Baul band "Okiyotaan" in 2002. It also meant the end of his college education as he had to skip exams to perform. In 2003, Siva formed his band with singer Tanvi Shah called "Zahrra" which performed music from all over the world including Arabic, Cuban, African and South American.
He was one of the few who played the Darbuka and thus the moniker. Siva formed "Yodhaka" in 2005 as an experimental band that performed c...
13. Raghu Dixit
Raghu Dixit, born in Mysuru, Karnataka, is a famous singer, songwriter, music composer and producer who founded The Raghu Dixit Project, which is a platform for artists and musicians from various genres to create and showcase their talents. Dixit’s music is rooted in Indian culture and traditions, depicted in a contemporary form. Raghu Dixit is a master level Bharathanatiyam dancer. He studied microbiology and was working in Belgium as a scientist. He was always passionate about music, thus, he also played on a local radio station in Belgium. At the age of 24, he returned to India and worked as a technical writer in a software company for a year and a half.
It was then when radio city rose in Bangalore, and he started making music for them and started his home studio. He started his career by starting his...
14. Farhan Akhtar
One of the most recognized young director of Indian cinema. In fact, he is the most versatile person in the industry as of now. He is Farhan Akhtar, a film director, actor, singer, writer, producer, screenwriter everything you name it, he has it. Son of the famous writer Javed Akhtar & actress Honey Irani was born on 09 Jan, 1974 in Mumbai.Â
As he was growing, he found the film industry around him. At home, the atmosphere of arts, literature influenced him to become creative man. He did his schooling from Maneckji Cooper & Graduated from HR College, Mumbai. After then, he started his career in films, first as ass...
15. Benny Dayal
Benny Dayal is an Indian Pop-Singer. Born in Kollam, Kerala, India on May 13, 1984. He was a member of the S5 Pop Band in India. He started as a playback singer and known to have work with various reputable composers.
He finished his studies from Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS) and took Journalism in Madras Christian College. His Indian-Pop-Electro-Rap-Reggae infused songs made him so famous and with unique quality compared to any singers. This made him one of the most loved singers by doing such mix-ups of traditional Indian music to a new-era’s songs. You’ll be so moved in listening to any of his songs.
He worked before as an Event Coordinator for RR Donnelley Printing. He also worked as an HR Executive for a BPO when he received a call and inviting him to audition for ARR Studio. He...
16. Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record l...
17. Krishnakumar Kunnath
Krishnakumar Kunnath is an Indian playback singer of Malayalam region. He was born and brought up in Delhi. Krishna was born to C.S. Menon and Kanakavalli, both his parents are Malayali. He has sung a song in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayali languages. His other names are K.K. or Kay Kay. He has completed his schooling from Mount St. Mary’s school, Delhi. Krishna graduated from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University from the commerce background. During his school days, he won many singing competitions. Even before joining singing as his profession he was the lead vocalist for different college bands. KK was very much influenced by singer Kishore Kumar and music director R.D. Burman. No training was taken up by him in this field. After completing his graduation, he moved to Mumbai with dreams to become a s...
18. Arijit Singh
Most famous for his songs in Aashiqui 2, Arijit Singh has established himself as a prominent playback singer and music programmer. He was the runner-up in Fame Gurukul, a singing competition, in 2005. He then went on to win another singing reality show, 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil.
Born in 1987 in West Bengal, Arjit was trained in classical music by his aunt and mother. He had a passion for music from an early age and his parents decided to get him a professional trainer, Rajendra Prasad Hazari for classical music and Dhirendra Prasad Hazari to train him at tabla. Â His teachers encouraged Arijit to try out for Fame Gurukul in 2005 and chose to promote the Indian classical music genre.
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Pritam Chakraborty gave Arjit a chance and signed him for three films; Crook, Golmaal 3, and Action R...
19. Mika Singh
Mika Singh is an actor, singer, stage presenter and composer. He was born on 10 June 1977 in Durgapur Bihar. He is the youngest child among six of Ajmer Singh Chandan and Balbir Kaur. Mika Singh real name is Amrik Singh. He is the real brother of all time famous punjabi singer Daler Mehandi. He is one of the most famous Punjabi singer. He sang several songs in Bollywood ‘Mauja Hi Mauja’, ‘Dhanno’, ‘Dhinka Chika’, ‘Gabru’ and ‘Mai tera agal bagal hu’.
Mika is also known for the songs Jaato Ka Chora and Rani Tu Mai Raja of the movie Son of Sardar. In 2014, he shares the stage with the rockstar Yo Yo Honey Singh for the song Mast Kalandar. The song is very much appreciated by the audience especially the young of India. Since 1998, Mika Singh was the part of more than 150 albums and movies either he was the compo...
21. Wilfred Demoz
22. Naresh Nathan
23. Rzhude David
24. Rahul Pophali
25. Bryden Lewis
26. Parth Chandiramani