Leo Kalyan

Britain’s Leo Kalyan can be an emotive, electronic-based vocalist/songwriter who have makes yearning, atmospheric R&B-infused pop and dance music. Located in East London, Kalyan was created right into a Muslim family members and spent his youngsters journeying between London and Lahore. Students of traditional Indian music, he was raised listening to a variety of Bollywood and globe music, aswell as trip-hop and R&B performers like Massive Assault, Sade, and Janet Jackson. Although he previously experimented with producing music for quite some time, around 2014 he started teaching himself to create in earnest and eventually published remixes (or “refixes”) of Jessie Ware’s “Working” and Duke Dumont’s “Want U” to SoundCloud. The monitors caught on, attaining blog interest and assisting Kalyan popularity of important music blog page aggregator Buzz Machine. Also for this period, he also collaborated with Karma Child and MNEK over the monitor “Over You.” Kalyan acquired an even larger calendar year in 2015 using the discharge of his Sterling silver Linings EP, offering the one “Fingertips.” The monitor proceeded to go viral, nabbing more than a million loading plays and gaining him an area over the BBC 1Xtra playlist. Following that, he was honored PRS Music Base financing, which helped him happen to be perform at Austin’s SXSW in 2016.