Telugu Rapper Akhil Bandhu Clinches JioSaavn Spotted South Winning Tune with ‘Sye’
The guitar-inflected hip-hop and pa combo is created with A-B’s trot-to beatmaker Sxperblu
Telugu hip-hop artist Akhil Bandhu aka A-B. Characterize: Courtesy of JioSaavn
A seasoned rapper who has been within the game for 10 years, Telugu hip-hop artist Akhil Bandhu aka A-B says the talent search JioSaavn Spotted has boosted his self belief to produce extra music.
A winner within the South category for his music “Sye,” Akhil says he by no design thought he’d even produce the pinnacle 5. “It is a ways such an encouraging take dangle of for me and my crew to be connected to Warner Music India through JioSaavn Spotted,” he says.
It’s additionally a boost for unprejudiced, boundary-pushing Telugu music, in step with Akhil, who’s section of the hip-hop crew Rival Mob. With a range of of us tuning in to songs being made by indie artists in Telugu, the artist options to straightforward accessibility by strategy of streaming platforms adore JioSaavn as a first-rate plus. “This affords us (unprejudiced artists) an big scope of reaching a range of of us who in most cases hear to Tollywood or Bollywood movie music,” he provides.
Discoverability of indie music, then, used to be (and to a level, continues to be) a first-rate gap but Akhil now proudly claims the Telugu indie scene “has been going inflamed internal Telugu states” consequently of contributions by pop-rock bands adore Chowrasta and its vocalist-composer Ram Miriyala. “[He] pushed the indie scene by bringing Tollywood into the image,” Akhil says.
For his section, Akhil created “Sye” with beatmaker Sxperblu in Might possibly well well well also unprejudiced 2022 and says he knew it used to be going to “procure me one thing mountainous.” He says about the music’s likely, “[It can] pull extra of us to hip-hop on chronicle of it has the melody touch to it. My perfect honest used to be to be successful in out to distributors so I could per chance well presumably procure some sponsors to produce a factual video.”
With those plans in mind, there’s additionally a Rival Mob album developing. A multilingual beefy-length by the crew, Akhil says it’s additionally going to herald “underground artists” as featured guests. “Since this album has Hindi, Telugu and English languages, we are staring at for it to be successful in of us in all locations India,” he provides.
