Kayan (musician)

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Ambika Nayak, known professionally as Kayan, is an Indian musician, singer and disc jockey.

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Her stage name, Kayan, is derived from reversing her surname "Nayak". Additionally, she is also a part of the group Kimochi Youkai and the electronic music duo Nothing Anonymous with Nirmit Shah. [1] [2] According to Nayak, her family was already musically inclined, with her mother being a Hindustani classical vocalist and her grandmother, a Kathak dancer, and she was thus able to get substantial exposure and training. [3]

By the end of 2021, she was reportedly one of the most streamed female indie artists on Spotify. [4] [5]

In 2022, she released her seventh and eighth singles DFWM (abbreviation of Don't Fuck With Me) and No Shade, the latter of which featured Singaporean rapper Yung Raja. [6]

Reception

The magazine Man's World praised her live DJ sets as "passionately genre-agnostic, driven by feel and an inexplicable sixth-sense tied to her spectators", and claimed that they had been key to her overall musical popularity. [2]

Discography

Singles

Filmography

Web series

YearTitleRoleNotesRef
2021 Hello Mini VixySeason 2 [9]

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References

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