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Prateek Kuhad, India’s Trendiest Musician
Prateek Kuhad is an Indian vocalist, lyricist and an artist who makes autonomous music in Hindi and English. He is most popular for his track cold/wreck, which was remembered for previous US President Barack Obama’s Favorite Music of 2019 list.He has been granted with Indian Indie Album of the Year 2019 by iTunes and Spotify: Top Indian Indie Hits ,The Best India Act at the 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards and Best Pop Artist Award at the Radio City Freedom Awards 2018.
Kuhad was conceived in Jaipur, Rajasthan and has two sisters. He figured out how to play the guitar at age of 16 and began songwriting in his late teenagers. Afterward, He contemplated Maths and Economics at New York University prior to moving to Delhi to seek after a full-time vocation in music. He additionally marked a distributing manage LA-based organization Cutcraft Music.Kuhad turned into the principal Indian to get endorsed by the American record name Elektra Records in 2020.
And, after it’s all said and done, he says, “music was never expected to be a vocation decision or something I would do genuinely”. He accepted a position in counseling however, following a couple of months, began to presume corporate life was not for him.”Nothing was working out and I was truly questioning myself,” he says. That vulnerability filled a melody – “There’s some kind of problem with the manner in which I think” – that turned into his first single after he quit his place of employment and moved back to New Delhi.
Before a year ago’s over, Kuhad was playing to a crowd of people of 9,000 at an open air show in Delhi’s Garden Of Five Senses, covering off an enormous, 30-date visit.
The individuals who have found Kuhad — an incredible 590k endorsers on his YouTube channel — say he isn’t only a mind-set, however a lucid articulation of the multitude of feelings united in the immense wreck such is reality.