The Raghu Dixit Project
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Dixit performing at a concert, 2010
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Raghupathi Dwarakanath Dixit |
| Born |
11 November 1974 Mysore, Karnataka, India |
| Genres | Folk, Fusion |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Website | raghudixit |
| Members | Raghu Dixit Gaurav Vaz Joe Jacob Narayan Sharma Sanjay Kumar |
| Past members | Wilfred Demoz Adarsha Ramakumar Joseph Vijay Karthick Iyer Darbuka Siva Jithin Das Bruce Lee Mani Rzhude David Anirban Chakravarthy Sandeep Vashista Rahool Pophali Bryden Lewis Parth Chandiramani Achyuth Jaigopal Nitesh Nataraj |
Raghupathi Dwarakanath Dixit (born 11 November 1974) is an Indian singer-songwriter, producer, and film score composer who is the frontman for the Raghu Dixit Project, a multilingual folk music band.
Dixit's music is an amalgamation of Indian ethnic music and styles from different parts of the world. His songs include "Mysore se aayi," "Mumbai," "Antaragni," "Hey Bhagwan," "Har Saans Mein," "Gudugudiya," and "Khidki." Dixit has produced music for contemporary dance and theatre productions including the Indian contemporary dance group Nritarutya, of which, his wife, Mayuri Upadhya, is the artistic director.
Dixit's self-titled debut album was launched by the music director duo Vishal-Shekhar on their new independent record label Vishal & Shekhar Music which collaborated with Counter Culture Records for this release. Raghu Dixit was the first artist on this new label. The album was also released on world music label Wrasse Records and Sony/ATV on 20 September 2010. The album reached #1 on the iTunes World Music charts in the UK. Title music for the show Splitsvilla was also composed and sung by Raghu Dixit. In the season one finale of The Dewarists, the Raghu Dixit Project collaborated with songwriter Rewben Mashangva on the song "Masti Ki Basti".
Collaborating with artists Dixit met during his previous concerts in the UK, the Raghu Dixit Project released their second studio album, Jag Changa. The album released on 23 November 2013. The album consists of eight tracks, in Hindi, Kannada and Tamil languages. In an interview with Vishnupriya Bhandaram of The Hindu, he mentions, "Every 200 kilometres in this country, languages change, the dialects change and the food changes, lives and lifestyles change and my music is unique and probably the USP is that it's sung in a vernacular tongue… its adds mystery."
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