Ash King

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Ash King
Background information
Birth nameAshutosh Ganguly
Born (1980-08-03) 3 August 1980 (age 43)
London, England
GenresPop/Soul
Occupation(s)Singer
composer
songwriter
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active2009–present

Ashutosh Ganguly, better known by his stage name Ash King, is a British singer, songwriter and composer. He made his playback singing debut in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6. [1] [2] He is a relative of prominent Indian singer Kishore Kumar. He has also sung the song "Carbon Copy" in the movie Drishyam .

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Personal life

Ash King hails from a family of musicians who has shaped his relationship with music. His grandfather Brajendra Lal Ganguly was the first Indian classical music teacher at Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's home and school Shantiniketan, and also a prominent freedom fighter for India and close ally of Subhas Chandra Bose and first cousin of Kishore Kumar's father. [3] King spent his childhood surrounded by celebrated musical artists with whom his father worked closely with. His father used to perform with Ravi Shankar in India back in the sixties. According to him, when he was very young, George Harrison visited their house at Wembley as he was into Indian classical music. His mother hails from Karamsad, Gujarat. [4]

He was influenced early on by joining a Gospel choir.

Career

His first Bollywood break was with A. R. Rahman on the film Delhi-6 which he recorded at Rahman's personal studio. Rahman invited King, to his London home after friends sang his praises. He was impressed with the 25-year-old's voice, he flew him to Chennai to record in his private studio. Since then he has gone on to sing Te Amo for the film Dum Maaro Dum, I Love You for the film Bodyguard and featured on Suno Aisha from the film Aisha.

Ash Featured on Lady Gaga's official single for Bad Romance on a remix of Just Dance , this was also used in the remix album and the Asian release of the album. [5]

Ash is also a prominent singer in the UK, having sung and co-written the song Love Is Blind which he sang with singer Ramzi and featured on the song Look For Me with Hard Kaur. [6] In 2011, Ash performed at some of the biggest events in the UK including performances at Glastonbury Festival for the BBC [7] and also performed on the main stage at the BBC London Mela. [8]

After 2011, in 2012 Ash was appointed for a Bengali song "Kothin" of Bojhena Shey Bojhena film. He also took part in MTV India's 'MTV Unplugged' – Series 2, with a whole episode dedicated to his hits. Other performers included A R Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan and Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan. In April 2013 he headlined a concert at the Southbank Centre in London, alongside Sufi/Bollywood singer Harshdeep Kaur.

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Ash King

Filmography

Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearFilmSong NameCo-SingerComposerNotes
2009 Delhi-6 Dil Gira Dafatan Chinmayi A. R. Rahman
2010 Aisha Suno Aisha Nakash Aziz, Amit Trivedi Amit Trivedi
2011 Dum Maaro Dum Te Amo (Duet) Sunidhi Chauhan Pritam
Bodyguard I Love You Clinton Cerejo Nominated – IIFA Awards for Best Male Playback Singer
Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge Uh-Oh Uh-Oh! Shilpa Rao Raghu Dixit
Uh-Oh-Uh-Oh 2.0
2012 Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu Aunty Ji Bianca Gomes, Neuman Pinto, Piyush Kapoor, Fionas PintoAmit Trivedi
Paanch Adhyay Phire Paoar GaanSolo Shantanu Moitra Bengali Film
Oh My God! Tu Hi Tu (Unplugged) Himesh Reshammiya
Rush Chup Chup Ke Muazzam, Rizwan Ali KhanPritam
Hote Hote Hard Kaur
Bojhena Shey Bojhena Kothin Sayani Ghosh Arindom Chatterjee Bengali Film
2013 Shortcut Romeo Shortcut RomeoSoloHimesh Reshammiya
Baat Bann Gayi NaseebaHarpreet Singh
Dance KarnaSardar Ali
Sooper Se Ooper Behka Behka Teesha Nigam Sonu Nigam & Bickram Ghosh
2014 Heartless Mashooqana Arunima Bhattacharya Gaurav Dagaonkar
Savaari 2 Yello MareyaagiSolo Manikanth Kadri Kannada Film
Humshakals Look into My Eyes Neeti Mohan Himesh Reshammiya
Bang Bang! Meherbaan Shilpa Rao, Shekhar Ravjiani Vishal–Shekhar
2015 I Tum Todo Naa (Male version) Sunidhi Chauhan A. R. Rahman
Tum Todo Naa (Female version) Bela Shende
Parbona Ami Chartey Tokey Ure Geche Monali Thakur Indradeep Dasgupta Bengali Film
Shudhu Tomari Jonyo Jeno Tomari Kache Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury Arindom Chatterjee
Dekhte Bou Bou Prashmita Paul
Drishyam Carbon CopySolo Vishal Bhardwaj
2016 Hero 420 Chaichi Toke Savvy Gupta Indo-Bangladesh Film
Prem Ki Bujhini Ami RajiMadhubanti Bagchi
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Alizeh Arijit Singh Pritam
Saansein Mera Pyar Arijit Singh, Swati Sharma, Dev Negi, Joi Barua Vivek Kar
Ami Tomar Hote ChaiEi Tukro Premer GolpoSolo Shafiq Tuhin Bangladeshi Film
Fever
Kahaani 2 Aur Main Khush Hoon Clinton Cerejo
2017 Half Girlfriend Baarish Shashaa Tirupati Tanishk Bagchi
Ami Je Ke Tomar Bhalobeshe Felech Jonita Gandhi Indradeep DasguptaBengali film
Flat 211 Chocolatey CakeSolo Prakash Prabhakar
A Gentleman Bandook Meri Laila Jigar Saraiya, Rap: Raftaar, Sidharth Malhotra Sachin–Jigar
Guest iin London Dil Mera Shahid Mallya, Prakriti Kakar Raghav Sachar
Tu Hai Mera Sunday Yeh Mera MannSolo Amartya Bobo Rahut
2018 Stree Nazar Na Lag JaayeSachin–Jigar
2019 Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas Ho Ja Awara Monali Thakur Tanishk Bagchi
2020 Coolie No. 1 Tere SivaRenessa Das Amazon Prime Video film
Kaamyaab Paaon BhariSolo Rachita Arora
Ludo Meri Tum Ho Jubin Nautiyal Pritam Netflix film
Meri Tum Ho (Unplugged)
2021 Radhe Zoom ZoomIulia Vantur Sajid–Wajid Zee5 film
2022 Raavan You Are My LoveSoloSavvy GuptaBengali film
Bhediya ThumkeshwariRashmeet Kaur, Divya Kumar, Sachin-JigarSachin-Jigar
Maja Ma Ae pagli Prakriti Kakkar Gourov Dasgupta Amazon Prime Video film
2023 Chatrapathi Sukhriya Palak Muchhal Tanishk Bagchi
2024 Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Title TrackSoloPritam

Non-film

Accolades

Award CeremonyCategoryNominated workResultRef.(s)
10th Mirchi Music Awards Male Vocalist of The Year "Baarish" from Half Girlfriend Nominated [10]

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  2. ↑ "Bodyguard". Bollywood Hungama . 29 July 2011. Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Das, Mohua (12 June 2012). "Ashutosh tells us about Ash". The Telegraph . Archived from the original on 15 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Ash King wishes to make Gujarati music a global phenomenon". The Times of India . Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Lady Gaga's 'Just Dance' Deewaan Remix Featuring Ash King". Desi Hits. 11 October 2011. Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "Ash King in the Spotlight". Naach. 11 October 2011. Archived from the original on 29 October 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  7. ↑ "Ash King + Shammi Pithia – Until I Hit The Ground Glastonbury 2011". 11 October 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2017– via YouTube.
  8. ↑ "Jay Sean, Jazzy B, Lehmber Hussainpuri, Mumzy Stranger and Ash King joined the London Mela line up". BBC Asian Network. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "Seven Singers Come Together this Holi to Celebrate Unity with Deewaren". The Times of India . Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Nominations – Mirchi Music Awards 2017". MMAMirchiMusicAwards. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
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