1. Raghav Sachar started playing his first instrument, the harmonica, at the age of four.
13 Facts About Raghav Sachar
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Raghav Sachar won the Best Drummer Award at the Pepsi Cornucopia contest in Delhi in 1994 besides being adjudged the best keyboard player at the BITS Pilani Festival.
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Raghav Sachar formed a band, Canzona, with some friends where they toured all over India and played at key places like the IITs, BITS Pilani etc.
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Raghav Sachar is an alumnus of Mount St Mary's, Delhi Cantt.
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Raghav Sachar has done affiliated courses from the Berklee College of Music, Boston and Trinity College of London.
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Raghav Sachar gave solo concerts while visiting India and worked with Viva and Shubha Mudgal on albums apart from recording for jingles for advertisements such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Sony Walkman etc.
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Raghav Sachar's crowning glory was being awarded the Golden Key Award and Earnest Award for academic excellence in 2000 and 2001 at Monash.
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Raghav Sachar has performed live for over 2000 public, corporate and private shows since 2003.
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Raghav Sachar released his first album "Raghav- For The First Time" in 2003 through His Master's Voice, followed by three other albums released through Universal Music in 2005 and 2007.
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Raghav Sachar played numerous instruments in various Bollywood blockbuster films, such as, Salaam Namaste, Parineeta, Dhoom, Kaal, Hum Tum, Yehaan, Black Friday, Kal Ho Na Ho, Don to name a few.
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Raghav Sachar has played in over 150 films till date.
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Raghav Sachar has recorded and performed with leading artists such as: Dave Weckl, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kailash Kher, Shankar Mahadevan, Adnan Sami, Shubha Mudgal, Neeraj Shridhar, Kunal Ganjawala, Sivamani, Niladri Kumar, Taufiq Qureshi, Louis Banks, Ranjit Barot, etc.
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On 21 January 2014 Raghav Sachar married actress Amita Pathak in Mumbai.