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Biography
Infobox musical artist|name = Stanford Raagapella|image = Raagapella 2011.png|caption = Raagapella, 2011 group|background = group_or_band|origin = Stanford University |genre = World music|World , A cappella |years_active = 2002–present|website = http://www.raagapella.com/ www.raagapella.com Stanford Raagapella , popularly known as Raag , is among the world's most prominent South Asian fusion a cappella groups. Founded in 2002, Stanford Raagapella is Stanford University|Stanford University's South Asian fusion a cappella group. Raagapella's music draws from a variety of genres and languages, focusing on a fusion of Western and Bollywood pop music. That the music style is South Asian fusion means that many songs ("fusion songs") are a combination of a song from each genre, Eastern and Western, mixed into one arrangement. Raagapella has released one album to date, Raags to Riches , and has toured throughout the United States and India , performing with artists including A.R. Rahman .cite web|url= http://www.raagapella.com/bio |title=Stanford Raagapella & #124; bio |publisher=Raagapella.com |date= |accessdate=2011-09-07
History
Raagapella was founded in 2002, making it the youngest of Stanford's nine on campus a cappella groups. Many people think it to be the most prestigious singing group in Stanford. Even more think that it is talented because of the group's hard work and dedication. The group quickly grew from its founding four members to a size of about thirteen, where it has stayed. In 2005 and 2006 Raagapella won Anahat, the National South Asian A Cappella Competition, and placed third in the same in 2004 and 2007; and in 2006 also took part in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) where it was a semi-finalist. Later the same year Raagapella went on tour the first time, a tradition which has continued every year since, bringing them to the East and West coasts, Texas, Chicago, Iowa and India,cite web|url= http://www.stanford.edu/group/raagapella/history.html |title=Raagapella & #124; History |publisher=Stanford.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-09-07 during which CNN-IBN did a story about the group.cite web|url= http://ibnlive.in.com/news/raagapella-indianised-form-of-italian-music/67780-8.html |title=Raagapella, Indianised form of Italian music |publisher=Ibnlive.in.com |date= |accessdate=2011-09-07 In 2006 Raagapella also performed with composer and singer A.R. Rahman in the Hollywood Bowl , where they collaborated again in 2007 (in the Oracle Arena , Oakland and NASA Colosseum) and again in the Hollywood Bowl in 2011.cite web|url= http://www.casa.org/node/3121 |title=Raagapella & #124; A Cappella Music - The Contemporary A Cappella Society |publisher=Casa.org |date= |accessdate=2011-09-07cite web|url= http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/artist-detail.cfm? id=2912 |title=Raagapella - About the Performer |publisher=LA Phil |date= |accessdate=2011-09-07
Music
Raagapella's critically acclaimed music consists mainly of Bollywood and Western pop. The repertoire also however contains classic rock (such as "I'll Take You Home"), Persian literature#Poetry 2|Persian poetry ("Ey Karevan/Hallelujah"), a national song ("Vande Mataram"), Hip hop music|hip hop ("Kangna"), R& B ("Burn/Jaane Kye Chahe"), Folk music|folk ("All along the Watchtower") and rap ("Motel"). Most songs are in Hindi and/or English language|English , with more minor occurrences of Punjabi language|Punjabi , Sinhalese language|Singhalese , Tamil language|Tamil , Persian language|Persian and Telugu language|Telugu .cite web|url= http://www.raagapella.com/discography? id=2625 |title=Stanford Raagapella & #124; discography & #124; Raags to Riches |publisher=Raagapella.com |date=2005-12-01 |accessdate=2011-09-07
Members
Founding members were Mehul Trivedi, Bobby Ghosh, Sudeep Roy, and Jay Pandit. Current officers are are Arif Gilani ( President ), Raman Nelakanti ( Music Director ), and Amrit Saxena ( Financial Manager & Tour Manager ).
For the 2011-2012 school year, members are as following:cite web|url= http://www.raagapella.com/page:singers |title=Stanford Raagapella & #124; page:singers |publisher=Raagapella.com |date= |accessdate=2011-09-07
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