Biography

Hriday Deepak Gattani (born 20 January 1991) is an Indian Playback Singer, Music Director, Song Writer and Performer from Mumbai, India.He is born and brought up in Mumbai. His father Deepak Gattani has officially managed many music concerts and live performances for legendary music director A. R. Rahman.He runs an Event Management Company along with his wife Sandhya Gattani named Rapport Global Events.

Hriday Gattani grew up watching great artistes perform live and was surrounded by musicians in his formative years because of his father's Career in Music management.He got trained in Classical Music under the legendary Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.

Hriday was mentored by the legendary Music Maestro A. R. Rahman.Under Rahman's music direction, Hriday made his Bollywood debut as a singer in the 2014 film Lekar Hum Deewana Dil, with the songs 'Maaloom' and 'Tu Shining'He got the opportunity for playback singing while he was a student of Western Classical at KM College of Music and Technology.

Apart from touring with A. R. Rahman for live concerts and performances, Hriday has also recorded for A. R. Rahman's 'One Vision', a song composed from prose written by then President, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.Hriday recorded an upbeat indie pop track "I Just Met Somebody" in collaboration with Singer Neeti Mohan. Neeti sang the Hindi verses of the song while Gattani sang the English ones. He Collaborated with Shruti Pathak on the Fusion cover 'Nothing on You' and with Suchismita Das on 'Let It Be'. As per the Singer, his Single 'Uljha' in collaboration with Vishal Dadlani's label VLT (Vishal Likes This), is based on his personal experiences.

Hriday debuted as a full fledged Music Director with a Marathi movie "Youngraad".
- IMDb mini biography by: Ashish Parasharr