Deepak Thakur

Deepak Thakur is an Indian playback singer, also known by his nickname ‘Kanhaiya.’ He was born on 3rd July 1994 in the small village of Athar in Buxar district of Bihar to a homemaker mother and a farmer father, Pankaj Thakur.

He had been passionate about singing from a young age, seeing which his parents moved to the nearby city of Muzaffarpur to provide him with more exposure than that his rural home had to offer. In Muzaffarpur, he attended the Oxford Public School followed by the Pristine Children’s High School before enrolling in the Lalit Narayan Mishra College of Business Administration.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and was pursuing his masters in the same but dropped out of college to chase a career in singing. He was discovered by music director Sneha Khanwalkar She is a famous Indian music director known for he >> Read More... , who gave him the break he needed in Bollywood with the opportunity to sing ‘Humni Ke Chhodi Ke’ for Anurag Kashyap’s crime-drama, “Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1” (2012).

The song was a critical hit, opening the doors to Deepak’s next endeavors, ‘Moora Morning’ from “Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2” (2012) and ‘Adhura Main’ from “ Mukkabaaz Click to look into! >> Read More... ” (2018). Deepak also participated in the tenth season of Colors TV’s reality competition “ Bigg Boss Bigg Boss Tamil is the Tamil language version of t >> Read More... ” (2006), as part of a ‘commoner jodi’ along with his girlfriend, Urvashi Vani Urvashi Vani is a prospective singer hailing from >> Read More... . He ended up as the second runner-up in the show.