- Dhunn
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Dhunn Origin Bangalore, India Genres Hindi rock Years active 2007 – present Labels Crescendo Website http://www.dhunn.com Members Ankur Bhasin, Muneer A Mohsin Dhunn is an Indian music band of soft rock – contemporary genre and comprises Ankur Bhasin and Muneer A Mohsin. Dhunn is known for their original, melodious music and live instrumentation in their music. Being a young and emerging group, Dhunn is a major hit with the late teens and early adults. Dhunn write and compose all their own music.
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Members
- Ankur Bhasin
- Muneer A Mohsin
Early years
Ankur and Muneer both studied in Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore, India. During their schooling days, Ankur started writing poetry and his interest in music led to participation in a literary fest organized by Baldwin Boys' School in 1997. Ankur's group won third prize in the Western Music (Group) category. With an enthused interest, as an aftermath of the unanticipated win in the literary fest, Ankur decided to learn guitar. Ankur met with his school mate Muneer who was also struggling to learn guitar. Together they started learning and teaching guitar to each other with Muneer being the initial guide with already having some basic knowledge of guitar chords.
Being largely self taught, the duo struggled and created their own format of notations and chords and since it was hard for them to play covers of other bands, they started creating their own music. However, after the completion of their high school in 2000, Ankur moved to Carnegie Mellon University, USA for further studies. Muneer also subsequently moved to Michigan State University, USA for pursuing his college.
In USA, Ankur served as the President of Awaaz (a student organization for Indian Music at Carnegie Mellon University) during the year 2002–2003 and also formed a fusion band Raag 'n Roll. The band was an instant hit amongst the students, having gathered more than 350 people for its first performance in Pittsburgh, USA. The band was however disbanded the next year with many of its members leaving the university upon completion of their courses at Carnegie Mellon University.
After the completion of their college, the duo met up again in Bangalore. Rekindling their interest in music, Ankur and Muneer started creating their own music. Ankur soon met with another friend from school - Rahul Gupta. Due to their shared interest in original music, Ankur invited Rahul to be part of the band (then termed as Dreamers). The rough recordings made by Dreamers turned out to be better than expected and they decided to get a professional recording done. Dreamers changed their name to Vibrants and recorded their debut album at Raveolution Studios, Bangalore. Once again the music turned out to be better than expected by the band members and they immediately decided to go public with the album and shot their debut video Yaadein.
The band once again changed their name to Dhunn to give it a more Indianized and earthly feeling and launched their debut album at Cinemax, Versova, Mumbai on 11 April 2007. Rahul, however, soon separated from the band thereafter due to personal differences.
Album discography
Year of Release Album Name Music Company 2007 Dhunn Crescendo Video Discography
Year Video Director 2008 Tumhari Yaad Shekhar Sirin 2007 Yaadein Remix Mridul Toolsidaas 2007 Yaadein Mridul Toolsidaas Performances
Date Performance 14 Nov 2008 For Little Paradise at Forum Mall, Bangalore, India 26 Oct 2008 For Indian Business Chamber at Sheraton, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 18 Jul 2008 For Rotary Jayanagar, Bangalore, India 15 Jun 2008 IIM, Bangalore, India 08 Jun 2008 Little Paradise, Bangalore, India 03 Nov 2007 For Diwali Mela by Punjabi Welfare Association at Patel's Inn, Bangalore, India 27 Oct 2007 For Oxfam at LIDO Mall, Bangalore, India 11 Apr 2007 Club Escape, Mumbai, India 25 Feb 2007 Gold Coin Club, Bangalore, India 24 Feb 2007 For Rotary Indranagar on International Night for World Understanding Month at Herbs and Spices, Whitefied, Bangalore, India TV appearances
Date Feature 29 Oct 2007 Dhunn's LIDO show telecasted on TV 9 27 Oct 2007 Interview on Udaya TV 24 Oct 2007 E TV Aug / Sep 2007 Dhunn shoots three episode series with Real Estate TV for the show titled "Space Harmonics" 14 May 2007 MTV Super select (MTV India) Radio Appearances
Date Feature 02 Mar 2008 LIVE show on FM Rainbow from 3pm - 5pm 21 Jun 2007 LIVE show on Radio City, Bangalore on for World Music Day 16 Jun 2007 Radio Mirchi, Bangalore from 9pm-midnight on the Club Mirchi 19 May 2007 Radio Mirchi, Mumbai from 9pm to 1am on Club Mirchi with Jeeturaaj 25 Jun 2006 Radio City Live, Bangalore at 9pm Magazine appearances
Month Feature July 2007 Man's World June 2007 Featured as Upcoming Artist in RAVE, India April 2007 Generation Y 2007 Nirvana Woman Fashion Magazine Trivia
Dhunn's debut video 'Yaadein' is ranked #13 in the All Time Non Movie Hits category by Rajshri[1]
References
"Dhunn's Official Band Website : www.dhunn.com". www.dhunn.com. http://www.dhunn.com. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
"Bangalore-based band `Dhunn` launches their album". www.radioandmusic.com. http://www.radioandmusic.com/node/603/image_gallery,type_anonymous_user,url_node/603/image_gallery. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
"Bangalore-based band 'Dhunn' launches their album". www.indiaglitz.com. http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/30858.html. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
Nguyen, Thuy (2008-10-22), "Incham to celebrate Diwali festival in town", The Saigon Times, http://english.thesaigontimes.vn/Home/travel/arts/1670/
Karimbayil, Saheer (2007-10-25), "Sufi band to perform in City", Deccan Herald, http://www.deccanherald.com/content/Oct252007/metrothurs2007102432118.asp[dead link]
Syeda, Farida (2007-04-25), "New notes", The Hindu, http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/04/25/stories/2007042500400100.htm
Syeda, Farida (2007-04-24), "Humming New Notes", The Hindu, http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/04/24/stories/2007042400400100.htm
External links
- Official Website - www.dhunn.com
References
External links
Categories:- Indian rock music groups
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