Updated On: 15 May, 2019 11:18 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Deepak Rathore
Tell us about your band?
Deepak Rathore is a singer-songwriter from India. With more than 60k subscribers on his Youtube channel and more than 3 million views on his music videos, Deepak Rathore has certainly achieved a name for himself in the Indie music community. It started from some school singing sessions and picked up pace when I started my engineering in Chandigarh formed a band and we use to jam daily. I did major compositions and lyrics in Shimla and many parts of Himachal. Travelling a lot and writing. Dehradun also plays an important part in giving shape to my music. Finally started recording originals in 2013. The song like 'Shimla Tha Ghar' 'Suna Pada' 'Ja Tujhko’ 'Pahadan' received a very warm response and crossed millions of views on youtube.
Who are your biggest music influences?
The major influences are from day to day life and from the people around me. As we are located near hills of Uttrakhand and Himachal a lot of influence comes from the sound of nature and the hills. Apart from these, my other influencers are bands like Euphoria, Agnee and Lucky Ali, Goo Goo Dolls, Snow Petrol, kodaline, Imagine Dragons, Passenger, Jon Mayer, Jason Mraz.