Kabir Rafi
Kabir Rafi is an Indian music director, composer, playback singer, independent pop artist, and background score artist. His first multilingual feature film in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada & Malayalam is #PK, Music released in 2020. He made his full-fledged music direction debut in Telugu film "manasu palike maya prema" and made is Kannada commercial debut with Sugar Factory in 2021. His 1st Big banner projects are web series like "Mana Mugguri Love Story" under Swapna Dutt banner "Mahanati" fame producer and "Mrs Subbalaxmi" under Manchu Lakshmi banner manchu telefilms & Zee5. He has worked predominantly for 200 digital short  films and independent films from 2015 to present in English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Silent films and other languages. Early life. Kabir Rafi was born to Shaik Abdul Khader in Vishakapatnam, lived in or travelled to various cities in India including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Assam (Silchar) and Gujarat (Bhuj), then settled in Hyderabad. His family has an army background with his great-grandfather a "freedom fighter". His grandfather and father also served in the Indian army where his father, a retired sub-major, and a huge fan of singer Mohammed Rafi, gave that name to his child. Rafi works professionally in  the music field today following the encouragement of his father and mother. He did his bachelor's degree in hotel management from Regency College in 2009 and was an MBA graduate of 2011. He worked with Just Dial Company for 2 years on a contract basis as a video vendor after MBA . He started his music career at the age of 12 in 1998 with various music stage shows and learned Hindustani classical music in vocals & Tabla (Pratham swash 1st grade). His mother recognized his talent and encouraged him to learn music and participate in various stage shows, singing competitions , etc. His father was serving in the Indian Army transferred to Mumbai where Rafi started his professional career singing various jingle and dubbing songs & tracks for music directors including Dilip Sen who guided him in 2005. As he was getting a lot of opportunities from Tollywood, his home industry, he got shifted to Hyderabad in 2006. He was given a lot of background music work for various top music directors as Asst. Composer, singer and keyboard player. He also sang track songs for them. One of the music directors who encouraged him was late Chakri in his early stages. Then  he joined Composer Jeevan Thomas in 2009 for four years, observed, worked & learnt various professional aspects of Music under his class. Career. From 2012 to 2014 he was under observation and worked in the musical team of musician & music director Jeevan Thomas for the movies "Kuberulu", "First love" (2013) and "Yavvanam Oka Fantasy" (2015). He also got opportunity to sing songs in Telugu, Kannada and Hindi as playback singer for a few movies. He gave stage performances as singer for more than 100 events. In 2014 he finished his first movie as full-fledged music direction debut "Manasu palike maya  prema". audio got release. Then in 2016 his independent film "Parinayam" was released. His second feature film, "Komali" audio was released in 2017. He finished with 200 Projects from the year 2015 to present which includes short films, independent films, web series, feature films, adds etc. in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi & English. His most popular projects which went viral and brought fame are Mana Mugguri Love Story, Mrs Subbalaxmi, Konchan Istam Chaala Kastam, I Hate You, Aa Gang Repu, Maa Naana Kosam, Pilli Kalla Papa, Oye Nandu, Atu itu nuvvey, etc. Critically acclaimed short films include She, Musalman, Papa, Anandmaaye , Chotu, Karmama and many more. His total musical view count on YouTube is nearing to 4 crores views which makes him the highest viewed musician in short film category 2015- 2018 on YouTube in India. His upcoming feature film projects are under production to be released in 2021- 2022.