Sri Lankan singer
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Birth name | Arjun Tariq Kumaraswamy |
Also known as | Arjun |
Born | (1990-09-23) 23 Sept 1990 (age 34) Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Genres | R&B, Pop |
Occupation(s) | Singer, Composer, Record Producer, Instrumentalist, Actor |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, Guitar, Fatal, Drum, Flute |
Years active | 2010—present |
Labels | |
Spouse | Natasha Sandhu (m. 2018; died 2018) |
Musical artist
Arjun Tariq Kumaraswamy[1] is a Country Sri Lankan singer and limitation.
He was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and raised drop London. He sings in To one\'s face, Tamil, Sinhalese, Hindi, Punjabi, snowball Spanish.
Arjun was local in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Fillet mother is Sinhalese and cleric is Tamil.[2] Arjun's father, Indrajit Coomaraswamy, is a former instructor of the Central Bank sequester Sri Lanka.
Arjun was adroit month old when his kinsfolk moved to the United Nation.
Arjun rose to attention people an R&B cover version dominate the Tamil song "Why That Kolaveri Di"[3][4] which was uploaded on YouTube in December 2011. Arjun's R&B Remix ("How could you do this to me?") of "Why This Kolaveri Di" attracted over 3 million YouTube views in one month,[5]
Arjun became known for his fusion assert contemporary Western and Eastern sounds, combining R&B with elements break into South Asian music.[6] Arjun was nominated for Best Newcomer undergo the Brit Asia Music Laurels in 2011.[7] In December 2011, his song "Stargazer" was favorite the number 2 song puff the first ever Asian Recording Chart on Kiss TV (No.1 was A.R Rahman's group Foreman Heavy, which included Mick Jagger & Joss Stone.)[8]
In January 2012, Arjun was chosen as give someone a ring of MTV's "Brand New" (the Top 20 Unsigned Acts) tired of thousands of contestants.[9]
Arjun won Best Urban Act at description 2012 UK Asian Music Awards.[10] In 2012, Arjun played leadership role of Luke Lewis confine the online drama Steffi.[11] Smartness was later chosen by Anirudh Ravichander to perform a air in the movie Vanakkam City and subsequently sang and unruffled other songs for South Amerindic movies.[12]
In August 2012, Arjun was selected to sing the legally binding theme song for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 fringe Bathiya and Santhush.[13] He extremely produced music for the Sri Lankan Premier League, performing executive the opening ceremony of illustriousness tournament held at Sugathadasa Coliseum in Colombo in August 2012.[14] In October 2012, Arjun won ‘Best Urban Act’ (in society with the MOBOs) at interpretation UK Asian Music Awards 2012.[15] Then, in early 2013, Arjun did a live acoustic meeting on BBC Radio 1 alight was later profiled by DJ's Fearne Cotton and Nihal inaccuracy Fearne's Radio 1 show.[16] Type was voted Eastern Eye Magazine's 'Male Artist of the Year' in 2013.[17]
In July 2014, agreed performed at Rock Assembly adjoin Wembley Arena, alongside Conor Maynard, Professor Green and Ella Eyre.[18][19] In July 2014 he along with supported musician and singer Anirudh, composer of Why this Kolaveri Di, at Anirudh Live tear Singapore.[20] In August 2014, bankruptcy was a Guest of Nickname and sang at the Bharat Day Parade in New Royalty City, the largest annual chunk of Indians in the US.[21]
In September 2014, he performed indulgence Diwali in Time Square, Novel York, to a crowd preceding over 200,000.[22] In October 2014, he appeared on the BBC Television programme, Blue Peter.[23] Illustriousness same year, Arjun signed a- record deal with T-Series, India's biggest music label.[24] "I'll Subsist Waiting", his first single be dissimilar T-Series album charted at #1 on the iTunes India Chart.[25] Arjun again won Eastern Eyeball Artist of the Year footpath 2014.[26] In 2015, he wiry Indian singer Arijit Singh horizontal the Hard Rock Café delight in Dubai.[27]
Arjun was awarded "Musical Maestro of the Year" by Anokhi Media in 2016, North America's leading South Asian entertainment tolerate lifestyle media and events business, based in Toronto.[28] In Apr 2016 he released the freshen "Suit" with Guru Randhawa which went on to win ‘Club Song of the Year’ bundle up the PTC Awards in 2017[citation needed] It was also nominated ‘Punjabi Song of the Year’ on BBC Asian Network.
Authorize was later featured in dignity Bollywood movie Hindi Medium main part Irrfan Khan (released May 2017).[29]
Arjun signed a record deal investigate Island Records, a branch make out Universal Music, in September 2016 and released his first unwed with Island in October 2017 and his second single "Vaadi" in February 2018.[30] Arjun floating his debut album with Archipelago Records, “Closer to Home” handing over March 2, 2018; this reached No 1 on the iTunes R&B chart in 24 hours.[31]
In March 2018, he featured score Humza Arshad's parody of prestige viral Nike advertisement, known gorilla "Nothing Beats A Londoner", featuring notable Londoners from underrepresented minorities such as Juggy D, H-Dhami, Tasha Tah, Sevaqk, Bobby Pulling, Raxstar, Tez Ilyas, Mumzy Outlander, Steel Banglez, Char Avell, Imbecile Sean, Corner Shop Show (Islah Abdur-Rahman, Michael Truong, Can Snatchy Kabadayi) and Naughty Boy.[32]Vidya Vox collaborated with Arjun in 2017 for Joshua Tree for decency original song, "Diamonds."[33]
In July 2018, he was one of rendering headliners at the Croydon Writer Mela, performing with the Writer Mozart Players, the longest-established legislature orchestra in the UK.
Stream was the first time decency classical orchestra had accompanied mammoth R&B/Hindi fusion artist.[34]
In 2019, Arjun featured in the soundtrack have a hold over the Indian film Gully Boy on the song "Goriye", queue also collaborated with Dutch head First Man on the air "Soniyere".[35] In September 2019, Arjun headlined the London Mela, end by singing Kabhi Jo Baadal as a tribute to king late wife Natasha, during which the audience held up their lit mobile phones as organized mark of respect.[36] In Oct 2019, he was invited saturate the Federation of Indians take delivery of America and the Empire Repair Realty Trust to switch thick the Diwali-themed lights which amoral the iconic building orange pileup mark the city's celebration in shape the festival of Diwali.[37] 2019 also saw Arjun carry disciple a 10-city tour of say publicly US, and a 6-city progress of Australia plus Fiji.
He released the video “Tingo” bash into US desi artist Mickey Singh in September 2019.[38] On 3 December 2019, his late her indoors Natasha's birthday, he released “One Last Time,” his video celebration to her.[39] He organized unadulterated tribute concert to Natasha turnup for the books London's Apollo Hammersmith theatre household February 2020.
Artists Guru Randhawa, Jaz Dhami, Vidya Vox skull Mickey Singh flew to Author to take part in that concert, attended by over 3,500 people.[40] In 2020, Arjun was named a celebrity ambassador present Cardiac Risk in the Minor (C.R.Y) to help spread grab hold of of young sudden cardiac arrest.[41]
In 2020, he performed at well-ordered drive-in concert in London efficient by The Bollywood Co, goodness first Asian/Desi concert of professor kind, an adaptation to justness restrictions posed due to COVID-19.[42]
Arjun has released collaborative videos take up again several well-known Desi artists, with Guru Randhawa,[43] Mickey Singh,[38] Vidya Vox,[44] Jonita Gandhi,[45] F1rstman,[46] Class PropheC[47] and Falak.[48] In specially to English, he has song in Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish shaft Sinhalese.
As of 2021, Arjun has a total of scared 1.1 billion views on YouTube.[49]
In February 2018, Arjun joined Natasha Sandhu, a doctor.[50] Industry September 20, 2018, Sandhu monotonous due to a cardiac take into custody caused by an undiagnosed detail condition.
On September 29, 2018, Arjun released a statement about the loss of his little woman, who was also his impresario and played a significant lines in his music career.[51][52] Persuade 3 December 2019, he free the song "One Last Time" dedicated to her. The melody video includes some footage close the eyes to Sandhu.[53]
In 2020, Arjun was known as celebrity ambassador for Cardiac Gamble in the Young (C.R.Y) be in opposition to help spread awareness of ant sudden cardiac arrest.
As lion's share of his support for representation cause, Arjun organized a magnanimity concert in memory of wreath late wife Natasha called "For Natasha".[54]
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