Kabir Rafi

Early life

Kabir rafi was born to Shaik Abdul Khader in vishakapatnam, bought up and travelled to various cities in india like Mumbai, bengaluru, Assam (silchar), gujarat (bhuj) and settled in Hyderabad. He belongs from a royal indian army background family where his great grand father was a freedom fighter. His grandfather and father also served in the Indian army where his father is retired sub-major who was a huge fan of singer Mohammed Rafi and kept same name to his child. Followed by this he too working professionally in music field today. He has done his bachelor's degree in hotel management from Regency College in 2009. & MBA graduate (passed out 2011) done job for 1 year in just dial on contract basis. He basically started his career as a singer in his early stages. He started his music career at the age of 12 in 1998 with various music stage shows and learned Hindustani classical music in vocals & Tabla (Pratham swaash 1st grade) it was his mother who identified the talent in him & encouraged him to learn music & participate in various stage shows, singing competitions etc. As his father was serving in Indian Army he then shifted to Mumbai where he started his professional career singing various jingle and dubbing songs & tracks for various music directors. one of them is music director dilip sen who guided him in 2005. As he was getting lot of opportunities from Tollywood his home industry he got shifted to hyderabad in 2006. Where he given lot of background music work for various top music directors as Asst. Composer, singer and keyboard player, also sang track songs for them one of the music director who encouraged him was late chakri in his early stages. Then he joined Composer Jeevan thomas in 2009 for 4yrs observed, worked & learnt various professional aspect of Music under his class.

Career

From 2012 to 2014 he was under observation and worked in the musical team of musician & music director jeevan thomas for the movies Kuberulu, first love 2013 and Yavvanam Oka Fantasy 2015. He also got opportunity to sing songs in telugu, kannada and hindi as playback singer for few movies. And also given stage performances as singer for more than 100 events. In 2014 he finished his first movie as full-fledged music direction debut "manasu palike maya prema". audio got released. Then in 2016 his independent film parinayam audio got release. his 2nd feature FILM "Komali " audio released. in 2017 also Announced with 3rd film Prod. No 1 under MJ Creations. He finished with 90 Projects from the year 2015 to till date which includes short films, independent films, web series, feature films, adds etc. in Telugu,Tamil, Hindi & English. His most popular projects which went viral and brought fame are Konchan Istam Chaala Kastam, I Hate You, Aa Gang Repu, Maa Naana Kosam, Pilli Kalla Papa, Oye Nandu etc. and critically applaused short films are She, Musalman, Papa etc. his total musical view count on YouTube is nearing to 3 crores views which made him the highest viewed musician in short film category on YouTube in india. Presently signed 8 features films going to compose in 2017 & 2018.

Awards and nominations

1. Awarded with siima short film awards for the best music director for "KICK" short film by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam (Director of PELLICHUPULU), hosted by allu sirish, Rana Daggubati, and navdeep
2. Awarded with Indie Fest Short Film Award 2015 for best background music for short film "Aa gang repu"
3. Awarded with a national award from VR films national award 2016 for best music for song "yedo maya chesav". in shortfilm category.
4. Nominated in Lotus Short film Awards 2016 for Maa Naana Kosam & parinayam for best song and singer.
5. Nominated in Lotus Short film Awards 2016 for Aa gang repu & Koncham istam chaala kastam for best music.
6. Felicitated with Short film Diamond Award 2017 towards Contribution of Music in Tollywood short film industry for 2 years to till date presented by tollywood director and producers Raj Kandukuri, lyric writer Chandra Bose & producer T.Rama Satya Narayana.

Discography

Feature Films

Short, Independent And Mini Films

Web Series

Singles & Album Songs

As Playback Singer

As Audiographer