Siddharth Basrur
Siddharth in 2013
Background information
Genres	Indie, Bollywood, Playback singing, Progressive metal, Alternative rock
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter

Siddharth Basrur is an Indian vocalist, composer and a playback singer. He entered the indie music scene with his first band, Kinky Ski Munky. He is the frontman of Mumbai's progressive metal band Goddess Gagged.^[1] Basrur has contributed to Bollywood movies like Haunted 3D, Players and David.^[2][3]

Early life

Siddharth Basrur was born in 1981 and was interested in music since childhood. Basrur dropped out of his first year of college and started working in a music store, as it paid him more than his pocket money.^[4] He grew up listening to everything from Alice Cooper to Kishore Kumar. He was influenced by his father and uncles, who listened to classic rock 'n’ roll. At the young age of 15, Alternative Rock became his favourite genre.^[5]

Career

Having obtained a diploma in audio engineering, Basrur worked for some time in the film industry doing audio post production for movies. He quit his job as a sound engineer and took up content writing for Channel V in 2008, which he would later quit in order to make music full-time.^[4] In 2000, Basrur composed vocal melodies for the band Kinky Ski Munky. Basrur would receive his first break in commercial music by Chirantan, a friend of his who was involved in the making of the soundtrack for Haunted 3D, giving him the opportunity to sing two songs for the movie.^[6] In late 2016, he sang the Hindi version of the song "We Know the Way" for the Hindi-dubbed release of the Disney animated feature film Moana.

Performances and appearances

He was asked to open the show for the daughter of well known late Indian sitar composer Ravi Shankar, Norah Jones, who performed at the 'A Summer's Day' music festival, held in Mumbai on March 2, 2013.^[7] Basrur and Meiyang Chang performed a jam session at the Jack & Jones store in Mumbai on October 20, 2013.^[8] He has also performed live at IndiEarth at the Park, held in Chennai.^[9]

Music style and impact

Basrur's music ranges between a variety of genres like punk rock and indie rock, to metal music. In 2013, he released his solo album Chasing Rain in two chapters - respectively named Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.^[10]

Awards and nominations

Siddharth Basrur won the MTV VMAI in 2013 for Roots Song of the Year.^[11] He has been nominated for the Radio Cit Awards in 2013,^[12] and also for the Jack Daniels Rock awards in 2014 in the categories of song of the year and male artist of the year^[13]

Discography

Bollywood

Kannada

Tamil

Telugu

Malayalam

IPL 2018

Solo Career

Goddess Gagged

References