Dev Negi (born 25 June 1989) is an Indian singer-songwriter and a playback singer based in Mumbai, India. Negi has recorded numerous chartbuster songs for Hindi films, albums, television and TV commercials. The song Biba which is a collaboration of the international DJ Marshmello and music composer Pritam has been sung by Negi along with Shirley Setia & Pradeep Sran. His song Badri Ki Dulhania was one of the most viewed Indian songs on YouTube in 2017.[1][2][3]
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| Born | 25 June 1989 Dwarahat, Uttarakhand, India |
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| Years active | 2013 – present |
Early life
editNegi hails from a hilly town Dwarahat of Almora, Uttarakhand. He has done his schooling from a local state run intermediate school. During his childhood, he used to perform in school and local cultural events and he spent his maximum time in listening to Mohammed Rafi & Kishore Kumar's songs. According to Negi, he has learnt most of the music through listening and he too mentioned Rafi saab as an institution to him. After his schooling, he moved to Jalandhar, Punjab for higher education. Negi holds a bachelor's degree in music from Apeejay College of Fine Arts and he has learned Hindustani classical music from his guru Shri Vinod Verma ji. He trained his voice there in Jalandhar and by the end of 2010 he shifted to Mumbai.[4][5][6][7]
Career
editNegi made his debut with the song "Aaja Ab Jee Le Zara" from the film Ankur Arora Murder Case in 2013. He sang "Hai Yehi Zindagi" (film version) for Sajid Nadiawala's Kick and the title track of Ungli in 2014. In 2015, he got noticed when his two film songs released consecutively, "Ho Gaya Hai Pyaar" from Tanu Weds Manu Returns and "Coffee Peetey Peetey" from Gabbar Is Back. These songs brought him fame but "Badri Ki Dulhania" in 2017 came out as a major milestone in his career. After that he recorded a list of major chartbusters including "Chalti Hai Kya 9 Se 12" from Judwaa 2, "Sweety Tera Drama" from Bareilly Ki Barfi, "Butterfly" from the film Jab Harry Met Sejal, "Sweatheart" from Kedarnath and many others. His song Naach Meri Jaan for the Salman Khan starrer Tubelight has the Kumaoni lyrics written by him. It was for the first time when Kumaoni language has been used in a mainstream Hindi film song. Negi has done rapping in the song "Rang Laal" from Force 2 along with John Abraham which perfectly depicts the emotions of every Indian, post the Uri terror attack and India's retaliatory surgical strike. Apart from the films, he has sung several title tracks for television including Mere Rang Mein Rangne Waali, Ek Boond Ishq, Beintehaa and Nisha Aur Uske Cousins. Besides, he has recorded songs for Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali films. From then to now, he has shown his versatility by singing in different genres.[8][9][10][11][12]
Personal life
editNegi was born in Dwarahat on 25 June 1989. His father is an ex-army man and a former boxer and his mother is a homemaker. Negi is the youngest among his siblings. Being born and brought up in a Kumaoni – Rajput family, he has no ancestral roots to the music. However, he feels the music is always there in the beauty of hills and that has always been a big inspiration to him. In an interview, he mentioned that the feel is the most important factor in singing, particularly in playback and that feel is there in his singing due to the hills.[13][14][15]
Discography
editHindi
editFilms
editNon-film
edit| Year | Title | Work | Composer(s) | Co-singer(s) | Lyricist(s) | Ref(s) |
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| 2022 | "Kesariyo Rang" | Non-album single | Lijo George, DJ Chetas | Asees Kaur | Kumaar | [16] |
| "Mashooka" | Tanishk Bagchi | Ullumanati, Yash Narvekar | [17] | |||
| Kya Fark Padta Hai | Kya Fark Padta Hai - Single | Pawan Muradpuri | Ayaz Gorakhpuri | |||
| 2021 | Iss Pyar Ko | Moods With Melodies | Himesh Reshammiya | |||
| Iss Tarah Aashiqui Ka | Iss Tarah Aashiqui Ka - Single | Chirantann Bhatt | Manoj Yadav | |||
| 2020 | Raja Ganpati (feat. Asees Kaur, Deedar Kaur) | Raja Ganpati – Single | Tanishk Bagchi | Asees Kaur, Deedar Kaur | Rashmi Virag | |
| Kahin Ka Na Chorha | Kahin Ka Na Chorha – Single | Bharat Goel | Siddhant Kaushal | |||
| 2019 | Choodiyan (feat. Jackky Bhagnani & Dytto) | Choodiyan — Single | Tanishk Bagchi | Asees Kaur | Shabbir Ahmed | |
| Zaroori To Nahi | Zaroori To Nahi – Single | Dev Negi | Saba Akbarabadi, Amit Sharma | |||
| BIBA (feat. Marshmello & Pritam) | BIBA – Single | Marshmello & Pritam | Shirley Setia & Pradeep Sran | |||
| Psycho | Psycho – Single | Rajjat Sharma | Dev Negi | |||
| 2018 | Yeh Kya Hua | Broken But Beautiful | Rana Mazumdar | Shreya Ghosal | Amitabh Bhattacharya | |
| Side Wala Hero | SideHero | Vayu | Vayu | |||
| 2017 | Tujhme Hi Mera Jahaan | Tujhme Hi Mera Jahaan – Single | Aslam Keyi | B K Samant | [18] | |
| Roke Na Ruke / Mast Magan (with Tulsi Kumar) | T-Series Mixtape | [19] | ||||
| 2016 | Pukarta Chala Hoon | The Jam Room | ||||
| Din Dhal Jaye | ||||||
| Jeevan Ke Har Mod Pe | Paroma Das Gupta |
Other languages
edit| Year | Language | Song | Work | Composer(s) | Co-singer(s) | Lyricist(s) | Notes |
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| 2022 | Telugu | "Mashooka" | Non-album single | Tanishk Bagchi | Aditya Iyengar | Ramajogayya Sastry | Non-album single[20] |
| Tamil | "Mashooka" | Madhan Karky | |||||
| 2021 | Bengali | Baare Baare | Baazi | Jeet Gannguli | Nikhita Gandhi | Pratik Kundu | |
| 2019 | Jurajuri (জুরাজুরি) | Oriplast Originals | Protijyoti Ghosh | Anushree Gupta | Ritam Sen, Sambalpuri Folk Lyrics – Binod Pasayat | ||
| Jamai Badal Title Song | Jamai Badal | Jeet Gannguli | Payal Dev | Priyo Chattopadhyay | |||
| 2018 | Masha Allah | Sultan: The Saviour | Savvy | Akriti Kakkar | Raja Chanda | ||
| Chai Na Kichui | Inspector Notty K | Suddho Roy | Shweta Pandit | Priyo Chatterjee | |||
| 2017 | Hawai Hawai | Jio Pagla | Jeet Gannguli | Monali Thakur | Prasenjit Mallick | [21] | |
| Chaap Nishna | Shrestha Bangali | Anjjan Bhattacharya | Mamta Sharma
Anjjan Bhattacharya |
Lipi Katiha | [22] | ||
| Bengali | Jaya Tomari | Chaamp | Jeet Gannguli | Raja Chanda | Raja Chanda | [23] | |
| 2015 | Marathi | Deva Ganesha | Yudh.. Astitvachi Ladai | Vivek Kar | Adarsh Shinde
Pratap |
Jaffer Sagar | [24] |
| Chal Door Door (Unplugged) | |||||||
| 2013 | Punjabi | Teri Meri Jodi | Haani | Jaidev Kumar | Shipra Goyal | Kumaar | [25] |
References
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- ^ "Dev Negi doesn't record songs without knowing the actor he's singing for | music". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ "Love singing romantic songs most: Dev Negi". Ians Live. 19 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "'Badrinath Ki Dulhania' Singer Dev Negi On Bollywood Business". ETC Bollywood. 1 March 2017. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "Dev Negi: I owe my success to Kumaarji". Radio and Music. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ "FB Live: Dev Negi Belts Out His 'JHMS' Number 'Butterfly'". The Quint. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ "Uttarakhand singer Dev Negi: My style of singing is inspired from Kumaoni music". TOI. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ "Dev Negi: You can never say 'no' to anything in Bollywood". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ "JHMS singer Dev Negi: I want to sing romantic songs, not just peppy dance numbers". Hindustan Times. 31 July 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ "Singing is tougher than preparing for Indian Administrative Exam says Dev Negi". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ "John Abraham puts his baritone to good use paying tribute to Indian army". Deccan Chronicle. 22 October 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ^ "JDev Negi: Expressions in the voice are important; that's what connects a singer to his eventual audience". The Times of India. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ "Dev Negi made a bang in bollywood". Hindustan. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "Dev Negi crooned for Emraan Hashmi". Amar Ujala. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "Simmba's Singer Dev Negi to release his new single in January". India Today. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "Shantanu Maheshwari, Avneet Kaur All Set To Make You Dance To The Tune Of 'Kesariyo Rang'". www.outlookindia.com. 18 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- ^ Khan, Tahira (26 July 2022). "Rakul Preet Singh's peppy first Pan-India song 'Mashooka' out now". Zee News. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ Tujme Hi Mera Jahaan – Single on Apple Music, 21 April 2017, retrieved 20 January 2018
- ^ T-Series Mixtape by Various Artists on Apple Music, 11 August 2017, retrieved 3 January 2018
- ^ Khan, Tahira (26 July 2022). "Rakul Preet Singh's peppy first Pan-India song 'Mashooka' out now". Zee News. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ Jio Pagla (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Single by Jeet Gannguli on Apple Music, 13 October 2017, retrieved 3 January 2018
- ^ Shrestha Bangali (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP by Sanjeev – Darshan on Apple Music, 31 August 2017, retrieved 3 January 2018
- ^ Chaamp (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP by Jeet Gannguli on Apple Music, 10 June 2017, retrieved 3 January 2018
- ^ Yudh – Astitvachi Ladai (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP by Vivek Kar on Apple Music, 8 May 2015, retrieved 3 January 2018
- ^ Haani (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Jaidev Kumar on Apple Music, 22 August 2013, retrieved 3 January 2018