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Quickly following the release of his latest single “Bombay Dreams”, award-winning producer and DJ KSHMR reveals a brand new mini-documentary “Back To My Roots”.
Out now via Youtube, the mini-documentary follows his decade long career in the music industry as both The Cataracs and the KSHMR. “Back To My Roots” provides behind-the-scenes video footage from his early childhood and Indian heritage, along with one-on-one sitdown interviews with his dad and grandfather.
“Back To My Roots,” tells the full story of how KSHMR, originally born Niles Hollowell-Dhar, discovered his passion for music at an early age and decided to pursue it against his own family’s wishes. The summer before Niles was scheduled to begin college at San Francisco State University, his father sent him away to live in India with his grandfather to learn time management skills and get him prepared for classes in the fall. While he was in India, Niles fell in love with the culture and built a strong connection wi
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Fluke or not, it opened doors. Hollowell-Dhar secured producer credits on big-time projects such as the English-language portion of Enrique Iglesias’s album Love and Sex. Although he remembers his time working with Iglesias fondly, he ultimately found that the pop music wasn’t the best fit.
“It didn’t come as naturally,” he said. “Where I really excelled was being by myself and spending a lot of time crafting things. That’s what led me to dance music.”
Before KSHMR, Hollowell-Dhar worked as a ghost producer for several well-known DJs. When several of his ghost-produced songs blew up, he “took it as a sign that I could do it.”
So, in , Niles Hollowell-Dhar became KSHMR. He signed with Spinnin’ Records and remained anonymous for his first few hits, including “Burn” alongside DallasK. In , he released “Secrets” with Tiesto, taking the moment to reveal himself during Tiesto’s Ultra Music Festival performance that same year.
In , KSHMR released his debut EP The Lion Across
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I want to be a part of India’s growing hip-hop scene: KSHMR
American DJ and record producer KSHMR (aka Niles Hollowell-Dhar) didn’t hold back on showing his love for India during his one-hour set at the Road to något som är extremt eller ytterst festival in Bengaluru. “India fryst vatten my favourite place to time I come here, I always put a lot of thought into my set,” he told the crowd. He then went on to play hits like Bombay Dreams and his utgåva of Oo Antava, after which the DJ played a couple of tracks from his next hip-hop album.
Going Back to his roots
KSHMR feels strongly about hip-hop. After all, he started his music journey as a hip-hop artiste. The Indian-origin musician says, “Hip-hop was all I made growing up, and now it’s the genre that I’m most interested in. When I saw that there was a blossoming hip-hop scene in India, inom wanted to be a part of it.” The