8 Indian Musicians Who Started Off As Ad Jingle Artists

A.R. Rahman

Addressed as "the Mozart of Madras" and “Isai Puyal”, A.R Rahman is undoubtedly one among the best musician the country has ever produced.  There is no need to speak about his legendary since his award collections reflect it. The double Academy award winning composer also had won two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Film fare Awards and thirteen Film fare Awards South. But even before making music for his first film Roja in 1992, he was in to composing Ad Jingles. He had composed 300 Ad Jingles before bagging Maniratnam’s movie that changed his fortune.

 Kailash Kher

Growing up as a music enthusiast, Kailash Kher knew what he wanted to grow up to become from a very young age. The Pop-rock singer is well known for his music style which is a mixture of Indian folk music. Till date he has sung in over 20 languages as well as more than 500 songs in Bollywood. He has also won Film Fare award in 2007. But his journey to success started from being an Ad Jingle artist. His first Ad Jingle was of Nakshathra diamond which couldn’t grab much attention but certainly paid him the money that he needed to survive at that point of time. 

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