Who is the Desi Rapper One Signata Nach?

One Signata Nach (born Nikhil Rajpal August 7th, 1981) is a socially conscious rapper of South Asian (Punjabi from both Pakistani and Indian side) descent and owner of Represent One Records, a 100% free mp3 download / free hindi song download, socially conscious South Asian hip hop music label, also called Desi Hip Hop music, Desi Rap music, Socially Conscious Hip Hop music and Socially Conscious Rap music

Punjabi Rapper One Signata Nach: The Early Years

One Signata Nach was born and raised in Rochester, NY (New York, USA) and began his rapping experience at the age of 6. His childhood was tainted by racism and alienation - a problem he frequently addresses in his music as a tribute to young South Asians (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Punjabi, Sri Lankan, Nepali) who deal with same problem and often forget that this is a larger issue that affects the entire young Desi (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Punjabi, Sri Lankan, Nepali) community and immigrants in general. Desi hip hop music was a dream of his as a youngster, influenced by such genius musicians as Bally Sagoo, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Malkit Singh, Apache Indian and A.R. Rahman (some favorites listed below).

Throughout his childhood he dabbled in as many musical endeavors as was available to a young South Asian boy growing up in a rural area. He started composing music on the piano before he was 10 years old and starting at the age of 12 he spent endless hours using cut and paste music editing programs to create beats that crossed genres of traditional Punjabi music, dancehall bhangra music, classical hindi music, western Bollywood music and mainstream hip hop music. His parents, Kavita and Ashok Rajpal, both of whom excelled in the art of music encouraged Nikhil (One Signata Nach) to pursue his hobby and expand upon his talent. Shortly after marrying the love of his life, Priyanka Mukherjee (granddaughter of Hrishikesh Mukherjee), Nikhil started his career in the hip hop music industry.

One Signata Nach and his Musical career:

One Signata Nach's private experimentation with music became the foundation of his work with Boston University's hindi acapella singing group music, Suno. He often played the role of music director and was the resident rapper and beatboxer in the music group. At the same time, One Signata Nach was working on his own music and started producing higher quality beats and begin learning recording and music mixing techniques. In 2005, One Signata Nach had completed his first hip hop album, "Destination: Desi Nation" and was ready to launch his music into the Indian, Pakistani and Punjabi music scene in the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), Canada (CA), India and Pakistan.

Within a short timespan, he was able to garner press attention and radio play from India New England, TheRealDesi.com, Lokvani.com, Green Street Girl Komal Trivedi (chosen as one of her favourite albums of 2006), BBC Asian Network and Radio 1's Bobby Friction and Nihal, bopudum.co.uk, Kavita Chhibber, The Boston Globe and Nitelife Radio.