Arjun is a London-based singer, songwriter and music producer known for his fusion of contemporary Western and Eastern sounds, combining soulful R&B with elements of South Asian music. This formula has made him a big hit with Asian youth across the globe. As a pioneer in the Hindi/R&B Fusion genre, Arjun has set the standard for other young Asian artists now following in his footsteps.
- is a multi-instrumentalist, capable of playing the guitar, piano, bass, drums and flute, on top of singing and beat-boxing.
- was signed to India’s biggest record label T-Series. ‘I’ll Be Waiting’, his first single released on the T-Series channel has racked up over 88 million views, charted at #1 in the iTunes India Chart and spent over 40 weeks
in the UK BBC Asian Download Chart.
- signed a record deal with Island Records, a branch of Universal Music, in September 2016 and released his first single with Island in October 2017, his second single ‘Vaadi’ in February 2018 and his debut album with Island Records, ‘Closer to Home’ on March 2nd 2018; this reached No 1 on the Itunes R&B chartin 24 hours. His most recent single ‘Jaane Jaana’ (July 2024) led to over a million Instagram reelswithin a month and trended No. 1 on Instagram in the UK.
- has a truly international fan-base,and has performed on all six continents, to crowds of up to 200,000, in countries including the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, US, Canada, India, Sri Lanka, UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Mauritius, Suriname, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Madagascar and Fiji.
- is currently the most viewedUK Asian artist on YouTube, with over 1 billion views.He headlined the prestigious London Mela in 2019.
- has a strong social media presence with 1.5 million Facebook fans, over 600,000 Instagram followers,
100,000 Twitter followersand 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
- won ‘Best Urban Act’(in association with the MOBOs) at the UK Asian Music Awards 2012,and was nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’at the Brit Asia Music Awards 2011.He was selected as one of MTV UK’s'Top 20 Unsigned Acts of 2012'and was voted Eastern Eye Magazine's'Male Artist of the Year'in both 2013 and 2014.He won ‘Musical Artist of the Year’at the Anokhi Awards 2016, and Artist of the Year (Asia)at the Urban Music Awards 2020.
-has produced and sung songs for Indian movies including Vanakkam Chennai, Biriyani, Valeba Rajaand hit Bollywood movie Creature 3D,starring Bipasha Basu. In 2017 he performed on the song “Suit”with Guru Randhawa, which has over 530 million views, won 2017 ‘Club Song of the Year’at the PTC Awards, India,and is featured in the Bollywood movie Hindi Mediumstarring Irrfan Khan (released May 2017).
- has supported and performed alongside some of the biggest stars from the US (Chris Brown, Tyga); the UK (Professor Green, Conor Maynard); Bollywood (Arijit Singh, Kanika Kapoor); and South India (Anirudh Ravichander, Yuvan Shankar Raja).
- has been featured by international mediaranging from CNNto BBC Radio 1, BBC 1Xtra and The Independent (UK)to the Times of Indiaand Hindustan Times.He has performed on iconic UK television show Blue Peter, at London's renowned Wembley Arenaand Times Square NY,and switched on the Diwali lights at the Empire State Building.
- had the honour of singing in the ICC Cricket T20 World Cup 2012 Official Theme Songand composed theme music for the Sri Lankan Premier League.
- has produced music for a variety of artists, including an album with
Sony Indiafor singer Shivali, which was nominated for numerous awards internationally, including Best Fusion Album and Best Debut at the
Global Indian Music Awards (GIMA) 2011.