Forum Radio: Druv Kent

Send us Fan MailDruv Kent – aka ‘Dhruv’ – is a financier turned singer/songwriter, recording in both English and Hindi. HIs 2015 debut saw him become the first Asia-based artist supported by BBC Radio 2 in twenty years. He’s since scored several #1 hits on the World Indie Music Charts, the Euro Charts and the US Top 20. Recently, he featured in Rolling Stone magazine. Brought up in Kolkata before moving to America, Druv returned to India in the mid-90s to begin his banking career. In this he was very successful, and his work took him to Hong Kong and Singapore, for Credit Suisse and Deutschbank. But all the while that Druv was working as an investment banker, he was also a musician, and finally in 2013, he decided to pursue music as a career. There are some lovely thoughts in here about creativity and how to open yourself up to it: "What's changed [for me] is there's a level of quiet confidence... when I started, I was in such a rush because I could not believe that I was capable or I could channel this kind of energy through me. It's less about my own capability. It's more about this ability to get into the state of being able to move yourself out of the way, move your ego out of the way, and let the song come to you and, through exploration, figure out what it's trying to say and let it speak through you."Music by Alex Vickers