Namaste Kohei

Kohei (Japanese: 光平 Kōhei; Hindi: कोऽहे), better known online as Namaste Kohei, is a Japanese musician and reactor, currently staying in Bandra city of Mumbai, Maharashtra in India.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Kohei was born in Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan. He started playing the violin when he was three years old. He later moved to Tokyo, and completed his career as a beginner musician from the Tokyo College of Music. He loved listening to international music.
Soon, after listening to classical Indian and Bollywood music, he was interested in modern Indian music. He learnt about singer-songwriter from the 2008 British drama film Slumdog Millionaire. He "fell in love" with Indian music and moved to India shortly after he started his YouTube channel in 2016.
===Life in India===
Kohei started learning the Hindi language from Central Hindi Institute (केंद्रीय हिन्दी संस्थान) in Mysuru, Karnataka. After becoming fluent in Hindi, he joined the Symphony Orchestra of India based in Mumbai. He performed at Indian business tycoon 's daughter, Isha Ambani's wedding ceremony along with the band, at the programme held at Jio Gardens, Mumbai.
Over time, he proved to be more and more interested in the Indian culture. He met several celebrities and was mentioned by several Indian YouTubers. After he created a reaction video to CarryMinati's pop song Yalgaar, he was mentioned in a Life Is Strange livestream by Carry on his gaming channel, CarryisLive. Carry's remarks were also mentioned by Neon Man on his news report later that day.
==YouTube Career==
Kohei started his YouTube career by uploading covers of Bollywood songs played on his violin. This slowly transformed into videos where he covered multiple violin tracks of the songs. Gradually, he started doing mashups too. He shifted to creating videos about Japanese and Indian cultures, and uploaded "surprising tourists" videos by speaking Hindi to Indian tourists in Japan. He also conducted street interviews.
He was featured on a news report by Indian media channel Zee News, mentioning his performance with a violin cover on the song Kaun Tujhe from M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, where he paid tributes to Indian actor on his death.
==Controversy==
On 5 May 2021, a Japanese YouTube channel named Candy Fox released a song titled Curry Police in a video that has since been set to private. The video featured two men dressed in Rajasthani attire who loved nothing in the world but curry; the song was a satirical play on the "curry" stereotyping against the Indian diaspora abroad. The song received massive backlash from Indian YouTube, and the Japanese Embassy in India also spoke against it.
===Inactivity===
Kohei uploaded a few more videos until September 2021, which was when he uploaded his last video. It is believed that the inactivity is due to the preceding controversy, but Kohei has not posted anything about it.
==References==
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