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Ritviz Srivastava (born July 24, 1996) is an Indian singer-songwriter, electronic musician and record producer from Pune, Maharashtra, India. He rose to prominence after his song "Udd Gaye" was featured on A.I.B.'s official YouTube channel after becoming the winner of the 2017 Bacardi House Party Sessions, a talent hunt competition organised by A.I.B. and Nucleya.
Ritviz was featured on Forbes India's 30 Under 30 list and on one of the digital covers of the Grazia India's Cool List in 2021.
Early life
Ritviz Srivastava was born in Darbhanga, Bihar to Pranay Prasoon, a banker in the department of Foreign Exchange at ICICI Bank in Pune, who also plays the tabla and Anvita Bharti, the Head of the Department of Performing Arts at Delhi Public School, Pune, Maharashtra. This resulted in an exposure to music from an early age.
Ritviz grew up in Pune. He started learning music when he was 8 years old, and went on to be tutored by Uday Bhawalkar in the Dhrupad subgenre of Hindustani Music. He composed his first song at the age of 11.
Career
Following the release of his debut EP, Yuv in 2016, Ritviz released his second EP Ved three years later which was preceded by the hit single "Udd Gaye". He then made a remix version of Nucleya's track "Lights", from the 2016 album "Raja Baja", a remix of Major Lazer's "Light It Up", of which Ritviz made the Diwali version which features his voice as well as production in 2019. In May 2020, he was featured on the remix of Lauv's "Modern Loneliness". In the following year, Ritviz released another EP, Dev, preceded by "Liggi", he then followed it up with a collaborative EP Baaraat along with Nucleya. The four track EP was accompanied by a series of NFT.
In July, 2022 Ritviz announced that his debut album, Mimmi would be releasing on September 2, 2022. The album was named after and dedicated to his mother, who also helped co-writing the songs. After the release of his debut album, Ritviz embarked on his Mimmi Album Launch Tour throughout 2023.
Ritviz has performed at EDC Las Vegas, Sunburn Festival, the Bacardi NH7 Weekender, Zomaland by Zomato and YouTube Fanfest. He opened for Katy Perry and Dua Lipa at the OnePlus Music Festival in 2019.
Ritviz composed the title track of the Amazon Prime Video show Comicstaan, appeared on the soundtrack of the Netflix series Mismatched with "Sun Toh", and his music has been featured in the Marvel series Ms. Marvel.
On June 21, 2024, Ritviz released the single "Mehrbaan" featuring Pakistani Singer Hasan Raheem.
Discography
= Albums and EPs
== Singles and collaborations
== Web series soundtracks
=References
External links
Ritviz's channel on YouTube
Ritviz on Spotify
Ritviz on Twitter
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