Sahaj (musician)

Sahaj Ticotin (born April 5, 1974), is a Jewish American musician and the vocalist/guitarist from the Rock band Ra. Sahaj was born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Russian-Jewish father. During a pilgrimage to India in 1992, he learned more of the Egyptian Sun God, Ra, which became the name of his band.

Sahaj held the record for longest single note, for a male vocalist, in a song, having held a high B for 24 seconds. He was overtaken by Jan Werner Danielsen of Norway with 28 seconds in his live version of Nella FantasiaFact|date=September 2007. This record breaker can be heard on Ra's live album, "Raw", on the track "Skorn". Sahaj Ticotin overtook the previous record of 20.2 seconds which was held by Morten Harket, the lead singer of a-ha, in the song, "Summer Moved On".Fact|date=August 2007

He is the brother of motion picture and television actress Rachel Ticotin.

External links

* [http://www.voxonline.com/alternative/ra/index.htm Interview with Sahaj and his band Ra]