Raju Singh

Biography

Raju Singh (Full name: Rajinder Singh Panesar) is an Indian film score composer, session musician, singer, and guitarist. His first collaboration was with Malkit Singh of Hai Jamalo fame.

Together with Adesh Srivastav, they released an album called I Love Golden Star which was quite a rage in the underground circles in Britain.

Some of his early compositions include of shows Dekh Bhai Dekh, Filmi Chakkar, Aahat, Boogie Woogie, and CID.

Rajinder Singh Panesar, aka Raju Singh, was born on 3 April 1969 in Mumbai, India. Son of Gursharan Kaur Panesar and Charanjit Singh Panesar; his father hails from Amritsar and his Mother from Ferozepur, Punjab.

Singh's family lived in Juhu, Mumbai. He attended St. Xavier's High School, Vile Parle, and completed college from Mithibai College in 1986.

Raju Singh has been an integral part of the music industry from the very young age of 16 years when he would play the Bass guitar for the veteran music director R.D. Burman.

Learning from the masters from such a young age has imbibed in Raju a deep understanding of the role of music in films. Singh's school friends remember him as a guitar and drummer boy.

Singh did his first album Instrumental Tracks Power Of Music with his friend Aadesh Shrivastav in the year 1987 under the label Venus.

As a musician, Singh started playing for Uttam Singh who introduced him as a guitarist for the song Mere Pyar Ki Umar for the movie Waaris, sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Manmohan.

Initially, he started off as a guitarist with R D Burman and had the honor to be a part of his last movie 1942: A Love Story then slowly progressed on to become an arranger, music director, composer, and scorer for Bollywood movies later composing and directing for television and advertising.

One of the famous hits is Soniyo from Raaz: The Mystery Continues, Gungunati Hain from Satta.