Baba Sehgal
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Baba Sehgal is an iconic Indian rapper who was famous in the mid 90's. He is credited as the first Indian rapper to jump on the Indipop bandwagon, and released an album which got frequent airplay on MTV India. His famous hits include 'Thanda Thanda Paani' (a remake of "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice), 'Manjula' and 'Dil Dhadke'.
Background
He was an engineer prior to jumping into music as a career. He had the distinction of being the first Indian music video ever to be shown on MTV Asia (which was broadcasting out of Hong Kong at the time).
He has released 22 albums till now, though they haven't all met with the same level of commercial success. He released 'Main bhi Madonna', Thandaa thandaa paani (1992), Dilruba(1990), Alibaba(1991) and many more albums. He almost always writes, composes and sings the songs in his albms himself. He was the music director of he movie 'Dance Party' which had a popular song "kapurthala se aaya hoon, tere liye laaya hoon, Orange kurta peela pajama.."
He made a one time acting appearance as the main lead (hero) of the Bollywood film 'Miss 420'. Before this he hosted the TV show 'Superhit Muqabla' which was aired on DD2 at primetime. He has also worked as a stage performer and a model
He was in New York for 4 to 5 years and when he came home to Mumbai, he released his album 'Welcome to Mumbai', which was his 22nd and latest music album
He also directed the music for the Bollywood film 'Bhoot Uncle'.
He is also anchoring the tv show 'Santa and Banta news unlimited' on Zoom TV channel.
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