About the Artist
Bappi Lahiri is India’s master musician. A tabla prodigy at age four, Lahiri has gone on to have one of the most successful musical careers in Southeast Asia. Though not as well known to western audiences as Ravi Shankar or Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Bappi is a household name throughout the entire region. He has established an incredible body of work in the Indian film industry, having scored over five hundred Bollywood pictures. In 1986 alone, Bappi set a record of over one hundred and eighty songs recorded for thirty-three films, which were released in a single year and is documented in the Guinness Book of World Records.
He is best known for "Disco Dancer" which also won him the China Gold Award in Beijing. A trendsetter in Hindi film music, Bappi adapted himself for Bengali music as well. "Ogo Bodhu Sundari" and "Guru Dakshina" are among the popular Bengali musical hits Lahari composed. A number of India’s most popular singers have sung songs composed by Bappi in a career spanning over twenty five years, five hundred films, and over four thousand songs. His music blasts out of car radios and boom boxes wherever Indian popular music is heard.
Now India’s best-kept musical secret is getting recognition outside of his native land. It started when a sampling of Bappi's music became the underlying music track to the Top Ten Billboard hit, "Addictive" by Truth Hurts. With the enormous success of the single, Bappi’s music was being heard all over the western world. Bappi Lahiri was immediately partnered with Serious Music, LLC of Los Angeles to release his first US album under a new record label, Bappiwood Records.
Containing ten of his most famous Indian Bollywood songs, Bappi remixed the songs in addition to utilizing the talents of his multi-instrumentalist son Bappa, and his equally talented daughter, the singer Rema, on many of the tracks. With a U.S. tour hitting many of the largest Indian communities in the United States, along with various planned promotions to hit th
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