Mihir Joshi
| Mihir Joshi | |
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Mihir Joshi performing during 'Mumbai Blues' album launch | |
| Born |
March 15, 1981 Mumbai, India, India. |
| Other names | Music-Man Mihir[1] |
| Occupation | Television show host, Radio Jockey and Singer |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Mihir Joshi (born March 15, 1981) is an Indian singer, television anchor and former All India Radio FM Rainbow radio jockey.
Professional life
He started his career as a radio jockey, known as Music-man Mihir.[2] His first interview was with Engelbert Humperdinck.[1] He worked with a music instrument store called Furtados Music to help promote local bands and create a bridge between artists and the instrument companies. He also worked as a freelance writer and photographer for many magazines and newspapers (Rock Street Journal, Rave (magazine), Yuva, Jam, JLT, Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror and various others, including his own, called eMUSICPOST.com). After serving 5 years as a radio jockey on All India Radio, he moved to Radio One (India)[3] to host One Mumbai One Music, a show dedicated to featuring Indian musicians on radio. This was the kind radio talk show where he spoke with many artists, the format later became whats known as The MJ Show.
Music career
Performing artist
Mihir Joshi formed and fronted three English bands as the lead vocalist, The King Keys in 2006, The Works in 2007, and Mihir Joshi Band[4][5] in 2012. He also formed his first Hindi band, Bombay Rock Project in 2011, that went on to perform and do quite well on season 3 of India's Got Talent. He also formed his new Bollywood Band in 2014.
Album
Mihir released his first album in 31 May 2014 - Mumbai Blues, produced by Ashish Manchanda, recorded at Ranjit Barot's Nirvana Studios and Ashish's Flying Carpet Productions. It was released worldwide digitally by Times Music and physically by Flying Carpet Productions. The album was launched by Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa of the famous Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music director trio on the Harman Live Arena stage at the Palm Expo in Mumbai.
In February 2015, Mihir's label Times Music was ordered[6][7] by Central Board of Film Certification to remove the word Bombay from one of his songs, Sorry.
Almost 9 months after the release of the album, the Mihir Joshi Band won the 2015 Global Indian Music Academy Awards (also known as GIMA awards) for the Best Rock Album. The award was present to Mihir by music director and ace guitar player Ehsaan Noorani. Along with the award Ehsaan also gifted Mihir a Fender Ehsaan Noorani Signature Series Squier Stratocaster.
Television Hosting
Mihir hosted two TV reality shows - ICICI Direct Aspire on Zee Business and Maruti Suzuki Colors Of Youth on MTV India.
The MJ Show
He started The MJ Show as a blog in 2010, and later took it to a visual platform on YouTube with help from Ping Network in August 2013. Season 1 had 50 episodes and season 2 has already had 10 episodes shown on the YouTube channel. The show is also broadcast by NDTV Prime on every tuesday night as a primetime show.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The voice & the man in The New Indian Express". Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ↑ "CASEY KASEM APRIL 27, 1932 - JUNE 15, 2014 `A human archive of musical references'". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ↑ "Treasure o’ Tunes". Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ↑ "Mihir Joshi Band". Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ↑ "The Mihir Joshi Band brings something unique to the table". Times of India. Times of India. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ↑ "'Censorship' on women's safety song sparks Twitter backlash". BBC.com. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ "Censor board forces singer to bleep out word 'Bombay' from music video". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2 February 2015.