Ash King
Ash King is a singer, Songwriter and composer of half Bengali and half Gujarati origin based in London. He made his playback singing debut in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6.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. King spent his childhood surrounded by celebrated musical artists with whom his father worked closely with. Music has always run in his family. His father used to perform with Ravi Shankar in India back in the sixties. He recalls that when he was very young, George Harrisonvisited their house at Wembley as he was into Indian classical music. His mother hails from Karamsad, Gujarat. Influenced early on by joining a Gospel choir and listening to soul artists such as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Al Green and Luther Vandross, King’s style and flavor deliver a sound that is easy on the ear and alluring even for those who aren’t drawn to his specialized genre. However, you would be mistaken to think King’s talents lie in just the one genre.