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Abhi The Nomad

Abhi The Nomad

Abhi The Nomad has been played on NTS shows including Explorations w/ Digging In India, with Going For 6 first played on 7 August 2024.

Abhi Sridharan Vaidehi, better known by his stage name Abhi The Nomad, is an Indian rapper and singer.

Vaidehi was born in Madras, India to a diplomat father who was frequently forced to travel. He currently lives in Austin, Texas. Of his heritage, Vaidehi stated in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times “I’m not really complaining — being Indian’s actually almost an advantage… but it’d be cool if a lot of Indians were prominent in hip-hop. They’re not, and I don’t know why.” In addition to India, Vaidehi has resided in China, Hong Kong, France, the Fiji Islands and the United States. He describes a childhood memory of him being pedaled to kindergarten in the rear compartment of a cycle rickshaw. The events of Vaidehi's childhood heavily influenced his name,  'Nomad' meaning a person without a fixed habitat.

Some of Vaidehi's earliest musical influences included Blink-182 and Linkin Park. He later found himself fascinated with the music of Chicago rapper Kanye West, whom he has described as his gateway into hip-hop music. Of his introduction to the genre, Vaidehi stated “Ye got me into hip-hop, and Jay kept me coming back."

When Vaidehi was in high school, he was struck by a taxi cab. As he later explained in a behind-the-scenes video in which he explained the making of his song “Extra Life", he "flew twenty feet in the air, landed, and… when I opened my eyes, my vision was blurry, 'cause my glasses flew off, and they were actually like five feet away from me. And a truck ran over them and crushed them right in front of my eyes. I'm not even making this shit up." Vaidehi survived the incident and seemingly made a full recovery.

During the 2020 presidential election primary campaign season, Vaidehi promoted Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders by releasing a video on his YouTube channel featuring live, acoustic versions of his songs “Jungle", “So Long", and “Hello Stranger".

Vaidehi has released three full-length albums, Marbled, Modern Trash, and, most recently, Abhi vs The Universe, as well as four extended plays, Beginning, Catharsis, Where Are My Friends, and Abhi vs Kato with producer Kato on the Track. In December 2021, nearly three months after the release of Abhi vs the Universe, a deluxe edition of the album was released on all platforms. Of all of the songs in his expansive discography, more than half are collaborations. Some of Vaidehi's most frequent collaborators are Khary, Harrison Sands, Sherm, and Foster Cazz.

On August 3, 2022, Vaidehi announced a twenty-stop tour entitled Abhi the Nomad: Universe Tour. The tour ran for just over two months from September 18, 2022, to November 20, 2022, and saw support from singer-songwriter and TikTok inflencer Charlie Curtis-Beard.

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Abhi The Nomad

Abhi The Nomad has been played on NTS shows including Explorations w/ Digging In India, with Going For 6 first played on 7 August 2024.

Abhi Sridharan Vaidehi, better known by his stage name Abhi The Nomad, is an Indian rapper and singer.

Vaidehi was born in Madras, India to a diplomat father who was frequently forced to travel. He currently lives in Austin, Texas. Of his heritage, Vaidehi stated in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times “I’m not really complaining — being Indian’s actually almost an advantage… but it’d be cool if a lot of Indians were prominent in hip-hop. They’re not, and I don’t know why.” In addition to India, Vaidehi has resided in China, Hong Kong, France, the Fiji Islands and the United States. He describes a childhood memory of him being pedaled to kindergarten in the rear compartment of a cycle rickshaw. The events of Vaidehi's childhood heavily influenced his name,  'Nomad' meaning a person without a fixed habitat.

Some of Vaidehi's earliest musical influences included Blink-182 and Linkin Park. He later found himself fascinated with the music of Chicago rapper Kanye West, whom he has described as his gateway into hip-hop music. Of his introduction to the genre, Vaidehi stated “Ye got me into hip-hop, and Jay kept me coming back."

When Vaidehi was in high school, he was struck by a taxi cab. As he later explained in a behind-the-scenes video in which he explained the making of his song “Extra Life", he "flew twenty feet in the air, landed, and… when I opened my eyes, my vision was blurry, 'cause my glasses flew off, and they were actually like five feet away from me. And a truck ran over them and crushed them right in front of my eyes. I'm not even making this shit up." Vaidehi survived the incident and seemingly made a full recovery.

During the 2020 presidential election primary campaign season, Vaidehi promoted Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders by releasing a video on his YouTube channel featuring live, acoustic versions of his songs “Jungle", “So Long", and “Hello Stranger".

Vaidehi has released three full-length albums, Marbled, Modern Trash, and, most recently, Abhi vs The Universe, as well as four extended plays, Beginning, Catharsis, Where Are My Friends, and Abhi vs Kato with producer Kato on the Track. In December 2021, nearly three months after the release of Abhi vs the Universe, a deluxe edition of the album was released on all platforms. Of all of the songs in his expansive discography, more than half are collaborations. Some of Vaidehi's most frequent collaborators are Khary, Harrison Sands, Sherm, and Foster Cazz.

On August 3, 2022, Vaidehi announced a twenty-stop tour entitled Abhi the Nomad: Universe Tour. The tour ran for just over two months from September 18, 2022, to November 20, 2022, and saw support from singer-songwriter and TikTok inflencer Charlie Curtis-Beard.

Original source: Last.fm

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