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 the Telugu film "manasu palike maya prema" in 2014 in the Kannada film "Komali" in 2017 and Sugar Factory in 2021. His 1st Big banner projects are web series "Mana Mugguri Love Story" under Swapna Dutt banner "Mahanati" fame producer and Mrs Subbalaxmi under Manchu Lakshmi banner manchu telefilms & Zee5. He has worked for 150 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 grand father 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. 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 . 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 in Mumbai where Rafi started his professional career singing various jingle and dubbing songs & tracks for music directors including 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 4yrs,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 audio got release. His second feature film, ""Komali" " audio was released in 2017. He finished with 150 Projects from the year 2015 to date which includes short films, independent films, web series, feature films, adds etc. in Telugu, Tamil, 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. His total musical view count on YouTube is nearing to 4 crores views which makes him the highest viewed musician in short film category on YouTube in India. His upcoming feature film projects are under production to be released in 2020 & 2021.