Raghav now plays more than 33 instruments. He has performed live for over 2000 public, corporate and private shows since 2003.
RAGHAV SACHAR IN A R REHMAN NENJE EZHU SERIES
He was termed as a Born Genius and featured in National Geographic’s Worldwide Television Series titled “My Brilliant Brain”. His crowning glory was being awarded the Golden Key Award and Earnest Award for academic excellence in 20 at Monash. He gave solo concerts while visiting India and worked with Viva and Shubha Mudgal on albums apart from recording for jingles for advertisements such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Sony Walkman etc. Raghav has also done affiliated courses from the Berklee College of Music, Boston and Trinity College of London. It was during this time that Raghav toured as a "One-Man Band" to countries in South East Asia including Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. He studied Music & Composition and Performance with the main instrument, the Saxophone and minor instrument being flute, and did his majors in Jazz at Monash. before proceeding to Monash Conservatory of Music, Melbourne in 2000 to study music. He also formed a band, Canzona, with some friends where they toured all over India and played at key places like the IIT institutions, BITS Pilani etc. At the age of 15, he was chosen by the government of India as their representative in Russia for a cultural exchange program. 'Soniye' is out on the official YouTube channel of Panorama Music.He won the Best Drummer Award at the Pepsi Cornucopia contest in Delhi in 1994 besides being adjudged the best keyboard player at the BITS Pilani Festival. We also shot a cute little video of the soothing melodious song that it is." The music video also features Kate Sharma.Īsked about how the song happened and Raghav said, "I think I composed the main song a little more than three years ago and then with a section of saxophone and instrumental part, I created the entire song that is released now by Panaroma Music. His latest song 'Soniye' is performed and composed by Sachar and penned by Chandan Gokhru. Rahman, Salim-Sulaiman, Vishal-Shekhar, international drummer Dave Weckl, among others. He has frequently collaborated and performed as an instrumentalist with A.R. Raghav is known for delivering commercially successful independent albums like 'Raghav, For the First Time', '24 Carat', 'Play It Loud' among others. Perhaps that is why my room for creative satisfaction is still all the independent music that I create." So it is not that of a deeper creative and collaborative process for me where I get to know the world of the story, the character, situation everything in detail. Out of three songs, they will select one and then with a few changes here and there, and eventually, the song gets released. I was asked if I have a love song on a specific theme, and I sent a couple of songs that I composed earlier and kept in my song bank. He further added, "These days, doing Bollywood music is more of shopping. In last couple of years, the process of Bollywood music projects has changed even more." When I was younger, I was not submissive enough all the time to do so. When we are doing a project for Bollywood, we have to keep the pure artiste, the creative mind aside and rather have to submit to the vision of the director who has the overall picture in mind. So for me, I can put my creative energy into making a song in a multiple ways. I play saxophone, flute and other instruments too. Raghav told IANS: "I am a singer, composer and an instrumentalist. Mumbai, Dec 21 (IANS): Independent singer-songwriter Raghav Sachar says that making music for Bollywood is more of keeping the pure artiste aside and understanding the demand of the film rather than the collaborative process that earlier used to happen.Įven though he is known for some popular songs like 'Kabul Fiza', 'Rustom Vahi', 'Dil Mera' in Bollywood movies, asked about why he does not do more Bollywood music be it playback singing or composing, in conversation with IANS, Raghav shared how things have changed.