Raj Barman

Some Lesser Known Facts About Raj Barman

• Raj Barman is an Indian playback singer, songwriter, live performer, and Youtuber. He is known for his recordings of unplugged music.

• He began singing at a tender age. When he was 15 years old, his mother recorded his voice and sent it to her guru Pintoo Bhattacharya, who was a Bengali singer. Pintoo Bhattacharya was impressed by Raj’s voice and roped him in for singing lessons.

  

• Raj’s parents urged him to play cricket. Up until the 10th grade, he played cricket with great devotion, but after that, he stopped playing. ^[1]Odisha Diary

• On 3 October 2009, Raj started his YouTube channel where he posted videos of him singing Bollywood song covers. In an interview, while talking about his journey, he said,
  

  I had started my YouTube channel around 2009-10 but it came to notice after I made a cover of Tere Sang Yaara. I had in mind to do music in a full-fledged way but YouTube gave me a boost which by luck came in the way. Gradually, TV and Fm were replaced by YouTube. It is completely about the number game. I have done a lot of covers, though I feel the market of original music is saturated because of this as everyone wants to become a singer on YouTube.”

• In 2018, he collaborated with the singer Deepshikha Raina on YouTube and posted a video with the title New vs. Old 2 Bollywood Mashup, which went viral overnight and gained more than 115 million views.

  

• In 2021, Wynk Music titled Barman’s song ‘Saadgi To Hamari’ the song of the month.

  

• In 2022, Wynk Music named him the artist of the month of June. He received praise for his singing and lent his voice to a number of Hindi songs including Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin (2019), Tu Milta Hai Mujhe (2022), Ijazzat Hai (2022), and Tu Baithe Mere Samne (2022).

• In 2022, Raj Barman worked on the song “Dil Dhak Dhak Karta Hai” from the movie Doctor G, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Rakul Preet Singh, with singers Amjad Nadeem Aamir and Sakshi Holkar.

• Raj considers himself a pet lover and owns a dog named Guddu.

  

• Barman is a fan of Himesh Reshammiya and Micheal Jackson.

• Raj has performed at several award shows including the Stagecraft Awards 2018.

• Raj was nominated for the film Mon Jane na (2019) under the category of the best playback singer (male) at the West Bengal Film Journalists’ Association 2020.

• As Raj has more than 475k followers on Instagram and 3.42M subscribers on YouTube.

• In an interview, Raj said that he did not struggle in his career.

• His favourite song is Tu Mile Dil Khile by Alka Yagnik.

• While talking about his future goals in an interview, Barman said that he wanted to become a composer and filmmaker.

• Raj believes that he shares a remarkable resemblance with the Bollywood singer Arijit Singh. In an interview, while talking about this, he said,
  

  Initially, I used to get agitated due to the constant comparison of Arijit Singh and me. Though our voices are quite similar, I cannot help it. ” ^[2]Odisha Diary

• Barman considers singer Kumar Sanu as his idol.

• Raj has performed live at events such as weddings, private parties, college fests, corporate shows, and live concerts in many places such as Hyderabad, Gujarat, Singapore, and Jakarta.

  

• He smokes hookah occasionally.