Ritviz
Ritviz Srivastava (born 24 July 1996) is an Indian singer-songwriter, electronic musician and record producer from Pune, Maharashtra, India.[1] He is known for his song "Udd Gaye" 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 has been selected for the Forbes India 30 Under 30 list of 2021,[2] and has been featured on one of the digital covers of the Grazia India Cool List 2021.
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| Birth name | Ritviz Srivastava |
| Born | 24 July 1996 Darbhanga, Bihar, India |
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| Years active | 2013–present |
Early life and career
Ritviz Srivastava was born in Darbhanga, Bihar and brought up in Pune, Maharashtra. He currently resides in Goa. His mother, Mrs Anvita Bharti, is the Head of the Department of Performing Arts at Delhi Public School, Pune, Maharashtra. His father, Mr Pranay Prasoon, is a banker in the department of Foreign Exchange at ICICI Bank in Pune and also plays the tabla. This resulted in an exposure to music from an early age. Ritviz 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.[3][4] He composed his first song at the age of 11.[2] His preferred D.A.W. is Ableton.[5]
Ritviz has released four EPs, "Yuv", "Ved", "Dev" and "Baaraat"; and his debut album, "Mimmi".[6] His songs "Liggi" and "Udd Gaye" have been especially successful, their music videos having gathered, as of 12 September 2022, 166 million and 97 million (video and audio combined) views on YouTube respectively.
His associated acts include a remix of Nucleya's track "Lights", from the 2016 album "Raja Baja",[7] a remix of Major Lazer's "Light It Up", of which Ritviz made the Diwali version which features his voice as well as production, and lastly a remix of Lauv's "Modern Loneliness". 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.[8]
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.[9]
Discography
Albums and EPs
| Year | Album / EP | Track | Artist(s) |
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| 2016 | Yuv | Bali | Ritviz |
| Taan | |||
| Yuv | |||
| Jiti | |||
| 2017-2019 | Ved | Udd Gaye | Ritviz |
| Jeet | |||
| Barso | |||
| Ved | |||
| Jeet 2.0 | |||
| Sage | |||
| 2019-2021 | Dev | Chalo Chalein | Ritviz ft. Seedhe Maut |
| Liggi | Ritviz | ||
| Raahi | |||
| Thandi Hawa | |||
| Pran | |||
| Khamoshi | Ritviz & Karan Kanchan | ||
| 2020 | Thandi Hawa (Official Remixes) | Thandi Hawa (Sez on the Beat & Enkore Remix) | Ritviz |
| Thandi Hawa (Anish Sood Remix) | |||
| Thandi Hawa (Nucleya Remix) | |||
| Thandi Hawa (Zupiter Remix) | |||
| 2021 | Baaraat | Sathi | Ritviz & Nucleya |
| Ari Ari | |||
| Roz | |||
| Baaraat | |||
| 2022 | Mimmi | Aaj Na | Ritviz |
| Mehfooz | |||
| Mimmi | |||
| Chandamama | |||
| Taj | |||
| Jaana | Ritviz & Karan Kanchan | ||
| Pukaar | Ritviz | ||
| Aas Paas |
Singles and collaborations
| Year | Track | Artists | Album / Compilation | |
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| 2013 | Teenage Sound | Ritviz | ||
| 2014 | Vizdumb | Beatific | Ritviz | |
| I Feel Love | ||||
| 2015 | Mukti | Ritviz | "dimmSummer Presents: Revolution Rising Volume 2" | |
| 2016 | Turn Up | Su Real ft. Ritviz | "Twerkistan" by Su Real | |
| Lights (Ritviz Remix) | Nucleya & Ritviz | |||
| 2019 | Light It Up (Ritviz Diwali Edition) | Major Lazer & Ritviz ft. Nyla & Fuse ODG | ||
| 2020 | Modern Loneliness (Ritviz Remix) | Lauv & Ritviz | "~how i'm feeling~ (the extras)" by Lauv | |
| Roshni | SickFlip & Ritviz ft. Seedhe Maut | |||
Web series soundtracks
| Year | Series | Song | Artist(s) |
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| 2018 | Comicstaan | Comicstaan Title Track | Ritviz |
| 2020 | Mismatched | Sun Toh | Ritviz |
| 2022 | Ms. Marvel[10] | Sage | Ritviz |
| Thandi Hawa | Ritviz | ||
| Aavegi | Ritviz |
References
- Patwa, Priyadarshini (20 February 2020). "Meet Ritviz, the New Desi Electronica Master on the Block". Entrepreneur.
- "Ritviz: Tapping Into Classical Roots To Create New-age Music". Forbes India. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- "Ritviz: "I cannot make music just for the heck of it"". The Hindu. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- "How Indian Electro-Pop Artist Ritviz Banked on Spotify Streams to Navigate Pandemic". Billboard. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- Inc, Equipboard. "Ritviz's Equipboard". Equipboard. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - "Ritviz to soon release debut full-length album 'Mimmi' - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- NUCLEYA Raja Baja – Official Aftermovie | NSCI Dome, retrieved 6 July 2020
- "Katy Perry mesmerizes fans as she performs with Dua Lipa at Mumbai concert. See pics and videos". Hindustan Times. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- "Ms Marvel | AR Rahman : 'Ms Marvel's desi connect: AR Rahman, Ritviz & Ishq Bector add a dash of Indian music to MCU". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
- "Pasoori and 9 other tracks by South Asian artists that are featured in the Ms Marvel series". GQ India. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.