HanuMankind

Some Lesser Known Facts About HanuMankind

• HanuMankind spent his childhood in various places such as Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Italy, and mostly in Houston, Texas as his father worked in the Oil industry.

• He started rapping freestyle with his friends at the age of fifteen, and gradually his interest increased.

• He returned to India in 2012 and completed his graduation in Business Management, Marketing, and related support services in 2015.

• During his graduation, he worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs for three months from June 2014 to August 2014.

• He also actively participated in the Innopreneurs Club at PSG College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore and was its Board Member from October 2014 to May 2015.

• In 2016, he joined Goldman Sachs as an Operations Analyst for over a year and joined Big City Promotions in Bengaluru, as an Alliance and Partnership Specialist in April 2017.

• He also worked as a personal trainer as a side job.

• In 2019, he collaborated with musician Parimal Shais on his debut project, Kalari EP, performed at the music festival, NH7 Weekender in Pune.

  

• He mentioned in an interview the meaning of his stage name, HanuMankind. He combined a familiar name among Indians, Hanuman, the Hindu deity who personifies honour, courage and loyalty and the word ‘mankind’ referring to the rest of the world.

• Some of his other songs are S.L.A.B. (2020), Genghis (2021), Maadeva (2022), and Ayyayyo (2023).

• In 2021, he was one of the artists, along with Arivu, Siri, NJ (Neeraj Madhav), and Kartik Shah, featured in Namma Stories (2021) streamed on Netflix.

  

• His latest release, Big Dawgs (2024), received international acclaim from artists like Project Pat and businessmen like Anant Mahindra.

• He smokes rolled cigarettes and consumes alcohol occasionally.