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ALBUMSufi Love Mashup (By DJ Raahul Pai & DJ Saquib) - SingleDJ Saquib, Dj Raahul Pai, Parthiv Gohil, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shankar Mahadevan, Richa Sharma, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Kailash Kher, Paresh Kamath, Naresh Kamath, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Salim Merchant, Javed Ali, Kavita Seth, Amitabh Bhattacharya & Tochi Raina
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Biografia dell'artista
Acclaimed singer and composer Tochi Raina catapulted to fame with a raft of enduring Bollywood smashes—matched by virtuosic parallel explorations of Sufi melodies.
• The artist’s family instilled a deep appreciation of music and spirituality in him. His grandmother was a prominent sitar player, while his fakir grandfather introduced him to Sufi music.
• As a teenager, Raina followed his muse to Delhi, where he trained in Sufi and classical music alongside maestros such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ustad Bhure Khan.
• His Bollywood breakthrough as a playback singer came with “Bulle Shah” from 2008 film A Wednesday!. He then made an array of style-blending hits like bhangra banger “Gal Mitthi Mitthi” (Aisha) and romantic duet “Saibo” with Shreya Ghoshal (Shor in the City).
• In 2014, the Global Indian Music Academy Awards awarded Best Duet to Raina and Rekha Bhardwaj for “Kabira” (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani).
• Raina co-founded Band of Bandagi—a versatile creative vehicle combining soundtrack pieces, Sufi melodies and ghazals—with singers and composers Neeru Rawal and Prashant Satose.
• In 2013, the ensemble released the soundtrack for an unreleased political thriller, Ek Bura Aadmi. Raina shares a song with his sister, Harmeet.
• The band’s 2018 album Sufi Acoustica is a sweeping tribute to Punjabi poet Bulleh Shah and other revered local influences that inventively incorporates Western pop sounds.
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