The Mumbai-based singer-songwriter breaks down tracks from his debut LP ‘Songs From A Matchbox,’ crowdfunding the record, competing on ‘The Stage’ and more
We caught up with Mumbai-based singer-songwriter Raghav Meattle at his Bandra pad a day after he’s returned playing the Pandora Music Festival in Hyderabad. He says, “It was a great thing for me, I was feeling proud and it was the first time I took the band out.”
Meattle’s success has been gradual – from his days at the start of this decade fronting New Delhi-based prog rockers The Uncertainty Principle and later part of electro-pop duo Meattle & Malik with producer Nikhil Malik, he’s also juggled moving between his hometown to Hyderabad, Bengaluru and now in Mumbai over the last five years.
The musician’s stint on singing competition The Stage in 2016 also helped gather a few eyeballs. Meattle – who made it to the Top 6 on The Stage – says, “It got me a bit of exposure but mostly it gave me the confidence.” That confidence is what pushed the singer-songwriter to quit his job at tech startup Instamojo in Bengaluru and move to Mumbai in late 2016 to pursue music full-time. “It was literally starting from scratch and I played everything I got and slowly started getting better,” he says.
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