Tapas Relia
| Tapas Relia | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 August 1978 Surat, Gujarat, India |
| Genres | Film Score, Pop, Folk, New Age, Indian Classical, Fusion |
| Occupation(s) | Music Composer, Music Producer, Singer, Lyricist |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Labels | Various |
| Website | www |
Tapas Relia (Gujarati: તપસ રેલિયા; born August 11, 1978) is an Indian music composer and producer, known for his famous advertising campaigns for brands like Close-Up (toothpaste), Domino's Pizza, Amaron Batteries, IPL and Mahabharat (2013 TV series). In Mumbai since 1996, he has also scored music for Bollywood films, including India’s first major commercial animation film ‘Hanuman (2005 film)’ and the recently released film ‘Lakshmi (2014 film)’, a film on child trafficking by acclaimed director Nagesh Kukunoor. Based in Mumbai, he works and operates from his own recording studio.
Tapas Relia was born in Surat, Gujarat, to a Gujarati couple natively from Surat but living in Ahmedabad. He spent his entire childhood and teenage years in Ahmedabad and finished higher secondary school from St. Xavier’s Loyola Hall, Ahmedabad. In 1996 he moved to Mumbai to pursue further education and a career in Music. He started learning western classical music, with Piano as his principal instrument, and cleared 7 Grades of The Trinity College Of Music, London. Simultaneously, he also experimented in the avenue of commercial music and taught himself music programming on synthesisers and sequencers. In the year 2000 he went to the US, and studied ‘Composing for Film and Multimedia’ in New York University, New York City as a summer course, and returned to India in the same year, post its completion.
He started composing and arranging music for small advertising jobs, primarily in the corporate and radio sector. His first major break in mainstream advertising came in the form of the jingle “Kya Aap Closeup Karte Hain” for Close-Up (toothpaste). It was a huge success, and is considered to be one of the top jingles of all time even today. After that he went onto compose hundreds of Ads and other jingles for leading brands and agencies, including the Amaron Batteries campaign, Domino's Pizza ‘Pizza Aaye Free” campaign, Hero Honda (2010) campaign, IPL Mumbai Indians Anthem, and several other advertising campaigns, including ad campaigns and promos for leading Television shows like Mahabharata (2013) Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 3, Bigg Boss and MasterChef India.
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