Ambika Nayak, known professionally as Kayan, is an Indian musician, singer and disc jockey.
Her stage name, Kayan, is derived from reversing her surname "Nayak". Additionally, she is also a part of the group Kimochi Youkai and the electronic music duo Nothing Anonymous with Nirmit Shah.[1][2] According to Nayak, her family was already musically inclined, with her mother being a Hindustani classical vocalist and her grandmother, a Kathak dancer, and she was thus able to get substantial exposure and training.[3]
By the end of 2021, she was reportedly one of the most streamed female indie artists on Spotify.[4][5]
In 2022, she released her seventh and eighth singles DFWM (abbreviation of Don't Fuck With Me) and No Shade, the latter of which featured Singaporean rapper Yung Raja.[6]
Reception
editThe magazine Man's World praised her live DJ sets as "passionately genre-agnostic, driven by feel and an inexplicable sixth-sense tied to her spectators", and claimed that they had been key to her overall musical popularity.[2]
Discography
editSingles
Filmography
editWeb series
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Hello Mini | Vixy | Season 2 | [9] |
References
edit- ^ "Watch Kayan's Fresh Music Video for New Single 'Cool Kids'". Rolling Stone India. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ a b "Fashion, Passion And More: Meet Ambika Nayak aka Kayan". Man's World. 24 August 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
- ^ "Kayan to rock, jazz in Hyderabad". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ "10 indie artistes who shook up India's music scene in 2021". Vogue India. 28 December 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ "Checking in with Kayan: Ambika Nayak talks about going solo, DJing and fashion". Mid-day. 29 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ Ng, Scott (15 August 2022). "India's Kayan enlists Yung Raja for new single 'No Shade'". Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ a b "Best Of 2020: Indian Noisemakers On Our Radar". Man's World. 29 December 2020. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ "10 Best Indian Music Videos of 2021". Rolling Stone India. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ "Singers Kayan and Noor Chahal: On YouTube Music Foundry, and breaking out in style". The Hindu. 24 September 2022.
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