Who is Ricky Kej? Indian music composer who won his third Grammy Award. Read here

Bengaluru based music composer Ricky Kej has won his third Grammy Award for the album "Divine Tides". Stewart Copeland, drummer of the legendary British rock band The Police, who collaborated with Kej on the record, shared the honour with Ricky.

The pair received the gramophone award for best immersive audio album winner at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. Last year, they won a Grammy for best new age album for the same record.

Who is Ricky Kej?

Ricky Kej, who was born in North Carolina in 1981, is half-Punjabi and half-Marwari and has been living in Bengaluru since the age of eight. He attended Bishop Cotton School in Bengaluru before graduating from Oxford Dental College with a degree in dentistry.

Ricky is the youngest recipient of a Grammy Award, and he is only the fourth Indian to get the honour. In 2015, Ricky took home his first Grammy Award for his album “Winds of Samsara”, which was honoured as the year's finest New Age recording.

His extensive body of work includes 16 worldwide studio albums, over 3500 commercials, and four feature films, including the natural history documentary 'Wild Karnataka,' narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

FAQs

1- Who received a Grammy Award for the first time from India?
In 1968, the late Indian composer Pandit Ravi Shankar became the first Indian to receive a Grammy Award in the category of ‘Best Chamber Music Performance’ for his album “West Meets East”.


2- Who is India's youngest Grammy winner?
Ricky Kej is the youngest person to win a Grammy Award for India, and he is only the fourth Indian to do so.