![]() ![]() The song also topped the Spotify Daily Top Songs India, overtaking even the popular Bollywood song ‘Kesariya’, the latter coming with the backing of Dharma Productions’ marketing muscle, meme culture, and of course, the combined star power of Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt. The song found a perch on Billboard India at the No. His reign expanded with a bigger hit ‘Maan Meri Jaan’ from his album ‘Champagne Talk’, which was about a love lost because of a misunderstanding. His 2020 breakout hit ‘Tu Aake Dekh Le’ emerged as a favourite number for desi parties. ![]() He did not win the show’s first season, but he set out on a different journey, the one that would make him an absolute favourite of indie music listeners and the one that would catapult him to the Billboard and Spotify charts. He didn’t tell anyone at home about it till he knew he was among the finalists. It was during the show that he adopted the regal stage name. ![]() He gave a digital audition and sent over his files for the show where he was judged by the biggest of Indian stars - Raftaar, Raja Kumari, Nucleya and Naezy. In 2019, he gave his audition for in ‘MTV Hustle’ and again it was the Internet that became his vehicle. And it keeps growing eight years after he started off his journey. It was the Internet, which took him to the remotest parts of India and cultivated a new audience for him. The King was adding jewels to his crown one after the other. Ten months later, he followed it up with another song titled ‘Zinnda’, which was about surviving heartbreak. The YouTube algorithm helped as his music started getting recommended to those who are on a lookout for new artistes. As fate would have it, his song was loved by the audience. All it needed to be a musician was the music and a stable Internet connection or network coverage.Īt the age of 19, Arpan posted his first song ‘Boombass’ on YouTube to try his luck. The 4G spectrum witnessed a steady expansion in India and as a result this changed the world for many independent artistes as they didn’t have to go through the grind of breaking through the gates of music labels and caving in to the demands of studio executives. 2015 has been a definitive year for a lot of artistes across the board. It was in 2015 that Arpan laid the foundation of the throne that he would go on to occupy as the ‘King. And he worked towards his dream by making songs while still at his job. Arpan held onto his job for half a decade, but music was always the escape route for him. ![]() Despite his good performance, the class divide caught up with him and soon, he dropped out of the college as he couldn’t relate to his fellow students.Īfter college, like everyone else he knew, it was time for Arpan to enter the workforce. He even played football in the national under-20 team while in college. He got the admission in Dyal Singh College, Delhi University, to pursue Bachelor of Arts via the sports quota. The guy was gifted with the ‘right bent of mind’, no seriously, as much as he was good at music, he was a gifted sportsman as well – both the streams being the function of the right side of the brain. He cultivated the musician in him at a very early age as he was the soprano of his choir at the Navyug School - a government-run school for bright but economically underprivileged students in Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar. ![]()
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