Sanam (band)
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Left to Right: Venky S, Keshav Dhanraj, Samar Puri, Sanam Puri
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Mumbai, India |
| Genres | Pop Rock |
| Years active | 2010–present |
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| Website | www |
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Sanam is an Indian Pop Rock Band based in Mumbai consisting of Sanam Puri (Lead Vocals), Samar Puri (Lead Guitar and Vocals), Venky S or Venkat Subramaniyam (Bass Guitar and Vocals) and Keshav Dhanraj (Drums and Vocals). The band’s manager Ben Thomas is often referred to as the fifth band member. Together they strive to create the sound & style the band is recognised for by blending 4 different musical influences. This band is considered to bring back the band culture and independent music into India after a notable gap. The band is known for being amongst India’s top 10 independent YouTube Channels, India’s biggest music artist on the digital platform and the fastest growing YouTube Channel in the country.
The band’s music is known to bring out messages of Love, Peace and a feeling of Togetherness, making 3 generations of grand parents, parents and children enjoying the same music together. For the same reason their live concerts find audiences of all age groups coming together. The band has also started a new trend of releasing singles in India instead of full Albums. The band has so far recorded & performed songs in the following languages - Hindi, English, Bengali, Telugu and Gujarati.
The band name Sanam is derived from the universal word for love in languages like Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit, across Eastern Europe to the Indian sub-continent. The band’s frontman Sanam Puri is also the voice behind Bollywood chart busters like ‘Dhat Teri Ki' and 'Ishq Bulaava’. Amongst other original songs written, produced and composed by the band, is the song 'Main Hoon' for 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ that received rave reviews across its multi-language theatre release in India.The band is also known for giving a new life to retro classics like ‘Lag Jaa Gale’, ‘Aap Ki Nazrone Ne Samjha’, ‘Mere Mehboob Qayamat Hogi’ and ‘Gulabi Aankhen’ to name a few.
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Venky S, in his school days enjoyed watching a lot of MTV and Channel V; major influences being the music videos of Queen, Michael Jackson, Guns N’ Roses, Take That, Boyz II Men, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Nirvana, and a few others. Indipop was at its peak on TV at the time. His mother loved watching Hindi movies, which got him listening to many popular Bollywood songs at the time. He enjoyed singing and also playing the Guitar and bass at a very young age. Keshav Dhanraj was introduced to music by his brother Arjun Dhanraj, who had his own band and was always into music as a child. Inspired by Arjun, Keshav began to explore different instruments (Violin, Recorder, Guitars, Drums) and different styles of music by going for concerts and watching other musicians perform. Keshav got the initial feel of performing to an audience at a young age by doing shows with his brother’s band, before he set out to start his own. Brothers Samar Puri and Sanam Puri enjoyed composing songs to surprise their parents from the age of 6-7. Samar Puri initially started off by going for Piano classes in Delhi for a few weeks when he was younger. During that time, their parents forced Sanam Puri to also learn the Piano and do vocal lessons as they discovered that he could sing. However the classes were short lived. Around this time, Samar and Sanam Puri were enrolled in talent competitions (most of which they won) and were accompanied by their mother since they were still very young at the time. Sanam Puri eventually started learning to play the keyboard and Samar started the guitar. Samar also enjoyed writing lyrics about the age of 12. They grew up listening to a lot of pop music but slowly cut down on listening to artists and concentrated more on composing music together.
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