Stylistically, Apache Indian moved from mixing Indian music with raggamuffin and (on his second album) hip hop to more traditional forms of reggae on his most recent album, Karma. It featured Luciano, Boy George as well as Mafia & Fluxy.Īpache Indian merged raggamuffin with Indian music as well as influences from mainstream pop and hip hop, and started a trend that has found a large following. Karma, his fourth album, was a return to more traditional forms of reggae. In his heyday, he also made an appearance in the Tamil film, Love Birds, dancing alongside Prabhu Deva. Real People / Wild East (produced by Harjinder Boparai) proved to be his most experimental album, and also featured more Indian elements than the other albums. It was followed by Make Way for the Indian, (produced by Sly & Robbie, The Press, Mafia & Fluxy, Pandit Dinesh and Chris Lane), which featured rapper Tim Dog and spawned the hit, “Boom Shack-A-Lak”. Although he was born on, in Handsworth, Birmingham to immigrant parents from Jalandhar.ĬareerWith the collaboration of his cousins Simon & Diamond, he introduced the new hybrid sound of bhangra raggamuffin – also known as bhangramuffin – to the world with his first album No Reservations (produced by Simon & Diamond, Phil Chill, Robert Livingston, Bobby Digital and Sly Dunbar) in 1993.
Apache Indian is the stage name of the reggae dee jay/toaster, Steven Kapur.
This is the one Jalandhari musician who has not only made his place among Indians but also among people from western world.
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