1. Arun Shenoy was born on 30 April 1978 and is an Indian-Singaporean musician and songwriter.
31 Facts About Arun Shenoy
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Arun Shenoy is best known for his Grammy Award nomination at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards for his debut full-length studio album Rumbadoodle released in 2012.
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Arun Shenoy was conferred the Outstanding Computing Alumni Award by the School of Computing at NUS in 2018 and is a Distinguished Alumni of MIT, Manipal.
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Arun Shenoy is the founder of record label, Narked Records.
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Arun Shenoy has stated that name shifts aside, it's some of the most compelling, heartfelt and life affirming music he has heard.
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Arun Shenoy has been featured by Zen Magazine in the best dressed couples list at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards red carpet arrivals in 2014; and again by Le Guide Noir at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards red carpet arrivals in 2015.
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Arun Shenoy was born in 1978 at Manipal in coastal Karnataka.
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Arun Shenoy did his schooling at The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore from 1982 to 1993 followed by his pre-university education at St Joseph's Arts and Science College, Bangalore, from 1993 to 1995.
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Arun Shenoy returned to Manipal for his engineering degree at the Manipal Institute of Technology and graduated in 1999.
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Arun Shenoy moved to Singapore in 2003 pursue his master's degree by research in Computation Audio from the National University of Singapore.
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Arun Shenoy has been involved in the local music scene through his university days.
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Later in the same year, Arun Shenoy released a solo EP on 31 October 2010, which was titled Sol.
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Arun Shenoy has cited Yanni as a major inspiration for the album.
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Arun Shenoy contributes all the proceeds from the album to an education fund for underprivileged people in India.
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On 5 December 2012, Arun Shenoy was announced as a nominee for a Grammy Award at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in the category of Best Pop Instrumental Album for the album.
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Arun Shenoy has been noted as a first time nominee alongside other first time nominees in the Pop Field Fun.
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Arun Shenoy has collaborated with American producer Matthew Shell on a jazz instrumental single titled "Genesis" in 2013.
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In 2014, Arun Shenoy announced a collaboration with Berlin-based producer Sridhar.
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Later in the year, Arun Shenoy announced the formation of a new band Soul'd, a trio of Arun Shenoy on guitar, Ravichandra Kulur on flute and Duke Purisima on bass The band released their first single as a self-titled debut on 5 September 2014.
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On 1 July 2016, Arun Shenoy released A Stagey Bank Affair, his second album and his first as a collaboration with The Groove Project, a group that consists of 13 other artists.
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Arun Shenoy has said that laughter and misery becomes the balance-beam on which our existence is constantly weighed.
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Arun Shenoy collaborated with singer-songwriter, Elizabeth Butler on an American roots song titled "If I Knew" that was released on 1 July 2017.
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On 30 August 2018, Arun Shenoy released a 5 track singer-songwriter acoustic EP titled The Unplugged Songwriter Sessions, as a musical collaboration with the core team from The Groove Project, most notably, the rhythm section of bassist Duke Purisima and drummer Jerry Chua, and the addition of a few former and a few new musical collaborators.
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Arun Shenoy has explained in the liner notes the music was written during an extended phase dealing with difficult personal issues.
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In 2019, Arun Shenoy changed the lineup of The Groove Project into a high energy, groove intensive eight-man lineup recording music produced, co-written and co-arranged by Arun Shenoy with Matthew Shell, and prominently featuring pianist Lonnie Park and saxophonist Marcus Mitchell.
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Arun Shenoy had envisioned Shenoy's previous project as a multi-sensory experience of music, art, animation and physical packaging.
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Arun Shenoy had cited David Bowie and Pink Floyd as some of her early influences for art direction of musical projects.
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Arun Shenoy has stated that name shifts aside, it's some of the most compelling, heartfelt and life affirming music he has heard.
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Arun Shenoy was nominated along with Larry Carlton, Dave Koz, Gerald Albright and Norman Brown, and the eventual winner Chris Botti.
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Arun Shenoy was the first ever Singapore citizen to be nominated for a Grammy.
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Arun Shenoy was conferred the Outstanding Computing Alumni Award by the School of Computing at NUS in 2018 and is a Distinguished Alumni of MIT, Manipal.