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Ashutosh Ganguly, better known by his stage name Ash King, is a British-Indian singer, songwriter and composer. He made his playback singing debut in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6.[1][2] He is a relative of prominent Indian singer Kishore Kumar. He has also sung the song "Carbon Copy" in the movie Drishyam.

Ash King
Birth name	Ashutosh Ganguly
Born	(1980-08-03) 3 August 1980 (age 42) London, England
Genres	Pop/Soul
Occupation(s)	Singer composer songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Years active	2009–present

Personal life

Ash King hails from a family of musicians who has shaped his relationship with music. His grandfather Brajendra Lal Ganguly was the first Indian classical music teacher at Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's home and school Shantiniketan, and also a prominent freedom fighter for India and close ally of Subhas Chandra Bose and first cousin of Kishore Kumar's father.[3] King spent his childhood surrounded by celebrated musical artists with whom his father worked closely with. His father used to perform with Ravi Shankar in India back in the sixties. According to him, when he was very young, George Harrison visited their house at Wembley as he was into Indian classical music. His mother hails from Karamsad, Gujarat.[4]

He was influenced early on by joining a Gospel choir.

Career

His first Bollywood break was with A. R. Rahman on the film Delhi-6 which he recorded at Rahman's personal studio. Rahman invited King, to his London home after friends sang his praises. He was impressed with the 25-year-old's voice, he flew him to Chennai to record in his private studio. Since then he has gone on to sing Te Amo for the film Dum Maaro Dum, I Love You for the film Bodyguard and featured on Suno Aisha from the film Aisha.

Ash Featured on Lady Gaga's official single for Bad Romance on a remix of Just Dance, this was also used in the remix album and the Asian release of the album.[5]

Ash is also a prominent singer in the UK, having sung and co-written the song Love Is Blind which he sang with singer Ramzi and featured on the song Look For Me with Hard Kaur.[6] In 2011, Ash performed at some of the biggest events in the UK including performances at Glastonbury Festival for the BBC[7] and also performed on the main stage at the BBC London Mela.[8]

After 2011, in 2012 Ash was appointed for a Bengali song "Kothin" of Bojhena Shey Bojhena film. He also took part in MTV India's 'MTV Unplugged' – Series 2, with a whole episode dedicated to his hits. Other performers included A R Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan and Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan. In April 2013 he headlined a concert at the Southbank Centre in London, alongside Sufi/Bollywood singer Harshdeep Kaur.

Filmography

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Song Name	Co-Singer	Composer	Notes
2009	Delhi-6	Dil Gira Dafatan	Chinmayi	A. R. Rahman
2010	Aisha	Suno Aisha	Nakash Aziz, Amit Trivedi	Amit Trivedi
2011	Dum Maaro Dum	Te Amo (Duet)	Sunidhi Chauhan	Pritam
	Bodyguard	I Love You	Clinton Cerejo		Nominated – IIFA Awards for Best Male Playback Singer
	Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge	Uh-Oh Uh-Oh!	Shilpa Rao	Raghu Dixit
		Uh-Oh-Uh-Oh 2.0	Shilpa Rao
2012	Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu	Aunty Ji	Bianca Gomes, Neuman Pinto, Piyush Kapoor, Fionas Pinto	Amit Trivedi
	Paanch Adhyay	Phire Paoar Gaan	Solo	Shantanu Moitra	Bengali Film
	Oh My God!	Tu Hi Tu (Unplugged)	Solo	Himesh Reshammiya
	Rush	Chup Chup Ke	Muazzam, Rizwan Ali Khan	Pritam
		Hote Hote	Hard Kaur
	Bojhena Shey Bojhena	Kothin	Sayani Ghosh	Arindom Chatterjee	Bengali Film
2013	Shortcut Romeo	Shortcut Romeo	Solo	Himesh Reshammiya
	Baat Bann Gayi	Naseeba	Solo	Harpreet Singh
		Dance Karna	Sardar Ali
	Sooper Se Ooper	Behka Behka	Teesha Nigam	Sonu Nigam & Bickram Ghosh
2014	Heartless	Mashooqana	Arunima Bhattacharya	Gaurav Dagaonkar
	Savaari 2	Yello Mareyaagi	Solo	Manikanth Kadri	Kannada Film
	Humshakals	Look into My Eyes	Neeti Mohan	Himesh Reshammiya
	Bang Bang!	Meherbaan	Shilpa Rao, Shekhar Ravjiani	Vishal–Shekhar
2015	I	Tum Todo Naa (Male version)	Sunidhi Chauhan	A. R. Rahman
		Tum Todo Naa (Female version)	Bela Shende
	Parbona Ami Chartey Tokey	Ure Geche Chinta Bhabna Ghum Mone Mone Ekdom Rong Baloon	Monali Thakur	Indradeep Dasgupta	Bengali Film
	Shudhu Tomari Jonyo	Jeno Tomari Kache	Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury	Arindom Chatterjee
		Dekhte Bou Bou	Prashmita Paul
2016	Deewaren: Unity Song for Holi[9]	Deewaren	Sukhwinder Singh, Shaan, Javed Ali, Suraj Jagan, Kunal Ganjawala, Jonita Gandhi	Vinay Jaiswal	Single by The Moody Nation
	Hero 420	Chaichi Toke	Solo	Savvy	Indo-Bangladesh Film
	Prem Ki Bujhini	Ami Raji	Madhubanti Bagchi
	Ae Dil Hai Mushkil	Alizeh	Arijit Singh	Pritam
	Saansein	Mera Pyar	Arijit Singh, Swati Sharma, Dev Negi, Joi Barua	Vivek Kar
	Ami Tomar Hote Chai	Ei Tukro Premer Golpo	Solo	Shafiq Tuhin	Bangladesh Film
2017	Half Girlfriend	Baarish	Shashaa Tirupati	Tanishk Bagchi
	Ami Je Ke Tomar	Bhalobeshe Felech	Jonita Gandhi	Indradeep Dasgupta	Bengali film
	Flat 211	Chocolatey Cake	Solo	Prakash Prabhakar	Hindi film
	A Gentleman	Bandook Meri Laila	Jigar Saraiya, Rap: Raftaar, Sidharth Malhotra	Sachin–Jigar
	Guest iin London	Dil Mera	Shahid Mallya, Prakriti Kakar	Raghav Sachar
2018	Stree	Nazar Na Lag Jaaye	Sachin–Jigar	Sachin–Jigar
2019	Oriplast Originals	Ami Shudhu Tomar (আমি শুধু তোমার)	Solo	Ajay Singha	Bengali Album
2020	Coolie No. 1	Tere Siva	Renessa Das	Tanishk Bagchi
2021	Radhe	Zoom Zoom	Iulia Vantur	Sajid–Wajid
2022	Raavan	You Are My Love			Bengali film
	Bhediya	Thumkeshwari	Rashmeet Kaur, Divya Kumar, Sachin-Jigar	Sachin-Jigar

Non-film

• Look For Me
• Take It Easy
• Love Is Blind
• Bad Romance Remix from Lady Gaga Just Dance Album with Lady Gaga, Lush, Wedis and Young Thoro
• Revels, 2017 at Manipal Institute of Technology.
• Kishmish, with QARAN & Momina Mustehsan
• Haaye Oye – QARAN ft. Ash King

Accolades

Award Ceremony	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.(s)
10th Mirchi Music Awards	Male Vocalist of The Year	"Baarish" from Half Girlfriend	Nominated	[10]

References

External links

• Official Web Site for Ash King
• Ash King at IMDb

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