Blaaze was born on the Vijaya Dashami day of 1975 into a Brahmin family from Mylapore in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Blaaze was later raised in Kitwe, Zambia, educated in England and graduated from Columbia College Hollywood, United States.
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Blaaze's father being an architect, his family toured around the entire country with Blaaze starting to perform Breakdance on the sets his father designed, when he was 9.
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Blaaze then moved on to rapping and his music career began with a performance for President Chiluba of Zambia during the election campaign in October 1991 at the age of 16 and just 5 months later he produced and performed in Zambia's first ever music video Advice 4 Livin' with the Zambian national broadcasting corporation.
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Rahman appointed Blaaze to sing his first song in Tamil cinema, the "Baba Rap" for Rajinikanth's movie Baba.
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Blaaze has done the rap lyrics for the title track of the famous Star One show Remix.
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Blaaze co-wrote the song "Dreams on Fire" from Slumdog Millionaire, as well as being the lyricist on Gangsta Blues, from Slumdog Millionaire.
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Rahman, Blaaze wrote the official UN Anthem for Poverty, "Pray For Me Brother".
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Blaaze's continued perseverance to rap about issue-oriented subjects earned him the nation's vote for MTV Youth Icon of the Year 2008.
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Blaaze has rapped in Mohanlal's Malayalam movie Casanova and is the lyricist for two songs on the Vince Vaughn motion picture Couples Retreat.
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Blaaze has worked as a Music Director for the Warner Bros film Saas, Bahu Aur ex, with a song on a new age India, called, "What's Up India".
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Blaaze has worked as music director for the soundtrack of the film Striker.
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Blaaze's sister, Rekha Srinivasan, is a trained Bharatnatyam and Kathak Dancer, residing in New Jersey and founder of the Bhaarat Nritya Academy.