Saturday 23 March 2013

Roger David (born 15 October 1979), known world wide by his stage name Bohemia or Raja is a Punjabi rapper and a music producer from California.

Bohemia quickly gained popularity in 2002 with his independent first album, Vich Pardesan De (In The Foreign Land) which reached the Top 10 on BBC Radio 1 UK.[citation needed] The following album, Pesa Nasha Pyar, Released in 2006 became the first full-length Punjabi-rap album released by a major Record label. It brought Bohemia increased popularity, including his recent[when?] multi-record deal with the music label Universal Music Group Pvt. Ltd. India. It also brought his creation of Punjabi rap to mainstream recognition making Bohemia known as a pioneer of a new genre of music: Desi-Hip-Hop or Desi-rap.

In 2006 Pesa Nasha Pyar hits #2 on Maxim magazine’s Top 10 downloads, and #3 on Planet M chart. Bohemia appears in XXL magazine New York. He enters Bollywood in 2009 with the title track for Warner Bros. feature film ‘Chandni Chowk to China’, Bohemia appeared in the film with Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone.[2] He most recently lends his voice for the film Desi Boyz. Bohemia raps to set the scene for Sanjay Dutt's cameo along with, Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone and Chitrangda Singh.[3] ‘Da Rap Star’, his third album receives 4 nominations at the UK Asian music awards and PTC Punjabi music awards, including ‘Best Punjabi Album’ and ‘Best Music Director’. ‘Da Rap Star’ also remains  on Planet M chart India for several weeks. Bohemia then went on touring for the rest of 2009 performing all over Europe, Asia and America. He has appeared on many of Universal India’s mega-compilations including "The Chart busters" where he appears on three tracks. Universal called this compilation The biggest hits in Punjabi on one massive album![4] Bohemia is one of the best-selling artists of the year, making him the flagship artist of Universal Music Group India.

Bohemia was ranked 25th on Desiclub.com’s list of the 50 Coolest Desis.[5] “Ek Tera Pyar”, his second single from ‘Da Rap Star’ entered the B4U Top 10 chart, becoming the first none film track to do so. Bohemia was amongst the top 100 most searched Asian artists on yahoo.com. He has been featured on over 30 major label compilations and collaborations to date.

Bohemia is  on the Top 15 Desi Artists of the Decade. "This list is like no other" says Urban Desi radio. The list features artists that came onto the urban Desi scene and changed it forever.[6] He has released his latest album "Thousand Thoughts" (hazar gallan)