Baba Sehgal, a Sikh Rajput, is an Indian rapper and actor. Brought up in Lucknow, he was famous in the mid 1990s. He is credited as the first Indian rapper[1] to jump on the Indipop bandwagon,[2] and released an album which got frequent airplay on MTV India.[3] Since then he has dominated the Indian rap scene[4] with hits such as 'Thanda Thanda Paani' (a remake of "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice),[5] 'Manjula' and 'Dil Dhadke'.He did graduation (B. Tech in electrical engineering) from GB Pant University, Nanital. he has released 22 albums till now,[7] though they haven't all met with the same level of commercial success. He released Dilruba (1990),[8] Alibaba (1991),[9] Thanda Thanda Pani (1992),[10] Main bhi Madonna (1993),[11] Double Gadbad (1999) and many more albums. He almost always writes, composes and sings the songs in his albums himself. He was the music director of the movie 'Dance Party' which had a popular song "kapurthala se aaya hoon, tere liye laaya hoon, Orange kurta peela pajama..".[12] He has the distinction of being the first Indian music video ever to be shown on MTV Asia[13] (which was broadcasting out of Hong Kong at the time).
He also acted in a few films such as Miss 420 (1998) and Double Gadbad (1999).[14] Before this he hosted the TV show Superhit Muqabla which was aired on DD2 at primetime.[15] He has also worked as a stage performer[16] and a model.
He was in New York from 2001 to 2005[17] and when he came home to Mumbai, he released his album 'Welcome to Mumbai',[18] which was his 22nd and latest music album.
He also directed the music for the Bollywood film Bhoot Uncle.[19] Baba Sehgal has considerable fan following. He is also anchoring the tv show 'Santa and Banta news unlimited' on Zoom.[20] In 2009 he was one of the performers on the NDTV Imagine show Dhoom Macha De.
In 2009 he played a role in the SAB TV comedy series Jugni Chali Jalandhar and then in 2011 he appeared in Rang Badalti Odhani on Star One. [21]
He is the first Indian artist to air his music video "Dil dhadke" on MTV.
He is featured on the Imagine Showbiz series Baba's Cross Connection.
Renewed as a Playback Singer
Baba Sehgal sung many songs for Tollywood. Some of the instant hits include Rikshavodu, Jalsa, Aarya 2, Adhurs, and Don Seenu. He was mostly hired by music director Devi Sri Prasad. It was under Devi Sri Prasad's composition that Sehgal sung the Tamil songs "Jalsa Jalsa" from Villu and "Kadhal Vandhale" from Singam. The latter became one of the most popular songs of 2010.
Albums
- Dilruba
- Alibaba
- Thanda Thanda Pani
- Double Gadbad
- Mai Bhi Madonna
- Dr Dhingra
- Welcome To Mumbai
- Pinga Pinga
- Baba's Cross Connection
- NEPAL'S Rap Rock's
Baba Sehgal Movies as Actor
- My Friend Ganesha 3 (2010)
- Nalaik (2006)
- Double Gadbad (1999)
- Miss 420 (1998)
TV Serials
- Superhit Muqabla... Anchor
- CID
- Yeh Dil Chahe More
- Jugni Chali Jalandhar... Virendra
- Rang Badalti Odhani ....
- Santa Banta Unlimited on ZoomTv
- Maniben.com... cameo
