It has also played at many other major festivals including WOMAD (in Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.), Woodford Folk Festival and Sakifo Music Festival on the island of Reunion. debut, playing at GlobalFEST at Webster Hall in New York City and at The Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C. In January 2014, The Bombay Royale made its U.S. and toured Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In 2013, the band was booked to play at Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. The Bombay Royale released its first album You Me Bullets Love in April 2012 and was chosen as iTunes Breakthrough World Music Album for 2012. The band's male lead, Shourov Bhattacharya, is a second generation Indian-Australian musician and entrepreneur of Bengali descent. She is a Bollywood dance teacher and is married to the band's multi-instrumentalist Josh Bennett. Parvyn Kaur Singh, the band's female lead singer, is the daughter of Dya Singh, a traditional shabad singer. The Bombay Royale was formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 by Andy Williamson. The band composes its music collaboratively with major contributions from saxophonist and band leader Andy Williamson, keyboard player Matty Vehl, bassist Bob Knob, guitarist Tom Martin and others.
The band also performs songs in English, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi. The vocal lines and lyrics to The Bombay Royale's songs are written mostly by lead vocalist Shourov Bhattacharya in Hindi and Bengali. However, it now composes and performs its own original music, synthesizing Indian classical and folk music with Western styles such as surf, rock and disco. Early in its career, the band performed covers of popular Hindi songs from that era such as "Jaan Pehechan Ho" and "Dum Maro Dum". The Bombay Royale is heavily inspired by the soundtracks of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood movies. *1 Musical style *2 Biography *3 Discography The band was conceived by musical director Andy Williamson who also plays saxophone and flute. The band composes and performs music inspired by the soundtracks of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood movies. The Bombay Royale is an 11-piece Australian band fronted by singers Parvyn Kaur Singh and Shourov Bhattacharya and led by Andy Williamson.
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