![]() ![]() "This is the main reason why I decided to base my career abroad and to release all of my music through Western labels as that was the only path to success that I saw," he says.īorn in North Carolina to a family of doctors, Kej was eight when he moved back to the Indian city of Bangalore and has lived there since. Kej attributes this to Bollywood's "vice-like group" on the Indian music industry. But some music lovers told the BBC that they had never heard of Kej or his work until he made headlines for his latest award. He is popular with critics who marvel at his ability to reimagine Indian music. The album beat heavyweights like Christina Aguilera and The Chainsmokers and has earned the musician high-praise globally. ![]() The album won in the The Best New Age Album category.Ī year on, Divine Tides has once again managed to make it big at the awards, after it won in the Best New Age Album category, making Kej the first Indian to have won three Grammys. Six years later in 2022, Kej won his second Grammy for Divine Tides, a collaboration he did with The Police drummer Stewart Copeland. 1 on the US Billboard New Age Albums Chart a year before. The album by Kej and South African flute player Wouter Kellerman had debuted at No. In 2015, when Kej won his first Grammy for Winds of Samsara, he was already the youngest Indian to win the award. ![]() "Music and our environment have always been two pillars that have defined my life and after I won my first Grammy, I decided to dedicate my life and my music to the sole purpose of environmental consciousness by blending both these passions together," he told the BBC. ![]()
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