A number of the band's tracks featured in the popular video game Far Cry 4, released in November 2014. In August 2014, Rolling Stone magazine featured The Bombay Royale in its list of '10 New Artists You Need To Know'.
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The band released its second music video Henna Henna in May 2014 and its second album The Island of Dr Electrico in July 2014 under the HopeStreet Recordings label. 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. Together with her husband Josh, Parvyn also tours the nation presenting cultural education workshops on Indian classical and Bollywood music and dance at primary and secondary schools as well as festivals and events working with organisations such as Multicultural Arts Victoria and Nexus Arts.The Bombay Royale is an 11-piece Australian band fronted by singers Parvyn Kaur Singh and Shourov Bhattacharya and led by Andy Williamson. In Australia she often performs at festivals such as Woodford Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, WOMADelaide, Fairbridge Folk Festival and many other multicultural events across all states. Internationally she has performed at the Winnepeg Folk Festival, Salmon Arm Folk Fest, Hillside Festival in Canada, California World Music Fest, Glastonbury, Womad UK, Cambridge Folk Fest, Royal Albert Hall, Singapore Arts Festival, Smithsonian Institute, and extensively across Sikh community venues all over the globe.
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In 2016 she also collaborated with L-Fresh the Lion on his ARIA nominated album Become.
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Parvyn has collaborated with Aussie Hip-Hop artists such as Mantra in 2011 on his single “Got Me Wrong” which was on high rotation on Triple J and ABC’s Rage TV show. Licensing deals with HBO TV’s ‘Better Call Saul’ and Ubisoft Games ‘Far Cry 4’ helped to increase the bands international profile. In 2010, Parvyn was a founding member of The Bombay Royale, who in 2012 released their first album ‘You Me Bullets Love’, which went straight to number one on the iTunes ‘world’ charts. As performers of Sikh religious music, their work is held in high esteem by Sikh communities across the globe. Parvyn has spent her life on the stage, beginning her international touring career in her father, Dya Singh’s ensemble at the age of seven. Her debut record ‘Sa’ has collaborations with producers Joelistics, Yelderbert aka Max Dowling and Bob Knob from HopeStreet Recordings. Parvyn’s current solo project synthesies a lifetime of work and represents a new step in her practice. Best known as vocalist in cult psychedelic band The Bombay Royale she is influenced by electronica and jazz and her background in Sikh devotional music and her training in Indian classical music and dance. Parvyn Kaur Singh is a Punjabi Australian singer and dancer.