Introduction

Nikhil D'Souza, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Mumbai, India. In 2016 he signed to East West Records of Warner Music U.K. and has since been releasing his music primarily in the United Kingdom. His music has a distinctive alternative/pop/folk styling to it and melodic sensibility hinting at his main influences Sting, Jeff Buckley and Radiohead.

Early Career

From his decidedly non musical early career path as a geologist, Nikhil has come a long way to playing massive stages at the BBC biggest weekend festival, Live at Leeds, Great Escape, support gigs for Zac Brown, Striking Matches, Lizzie and Xavier Rudd at some of the biggest venues in the U.K. – the O2 institutes, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, as also selling out his own headlining shows at The Waiting Room and St. Pancras Old Church. To top off a good year, two of his unreleased songs - a remix of ‘Blind’ by EnginEarz and ‘The Fire’ written with Nitin Sawhney - were used in the trailers of the popular Netflix Tv show ‘Selection Day’. The year 2019 has seen him being selected as a headlining artist for NexaMusic – a nationwide talent hunt for English indie music fronted by A.R. Rahman. Alongside this he has also been the voice behind current chartbuster 'Vaaste' alongside Dhvani Bhanushali.

He released two songs in 2017, ‘Beautiful Mind’ and ‘Still in Love (acoustic)’. Beautiful mind made the playlist on BBC radio 2 and was critically well received. Then in 2018 he released ‘Silver and Gold’ and ‘Blind’ both of which made the radio playlists. This was followed by fan favourite ‘Love is a Liar’, and later the ‘Simple Kind of Love’ EP.

No stranger to Bollywood, he has sung hits like Shaam (Aisha), Mere Bina (Crook), Har kisi ko nahin milta (Boss) and O Gujariya (Queen) besides many others. However his focus has always been his original material which he plans on releasing in India in a big way this year.