Coke Studio India, officially titled Coke Studio @ MTV is an Indian

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, which features live studio-recorded music performances by various artists. Coke Studio combines myriad musical influences, from Hindustani, Carnatic and Indian folk, to contemporary hip hop,

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and pop music. It is inspired by the

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i show of the same name. Season 1 premièred on 17 June 2011 on

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. Season 2 premiered on 7 July 2012 on MTV India

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. Season 3 premiered 17 August 2013 on MTV India, Big FM and DD National. Season 3 also premiered on

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on 24 August 2013. Season 4 premiered on 1 March 2015.

Seasons

Below is a list of featured artists who have performed in Coke Studio India.

Season 1 (2011)

Each hour-long episode of the Coke Studio At MTV featured six songs and a diverse mix of music from alternative genres including Carnatic and Hindustani, compositions by new musicians, recreated

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tracks, and a special song created on the programme. This season, directed by upavitra Babul had a total of 10 episodes, including one which showed the best of Season 1. * Advaita * Akriti Kakkar * Bombay Jayashri * Bondo * Chinna Ponnu * Colonial Cousins * Divya * Divya Lewis * Harshdeep Kaur * Kailash Kher * Kavita Seth * Khagan Gogoi * Khagen Gogoi * KK * Lesle Lewis * Mathang * Mathangi Rajshekhar * Megha Dalton * Megha Sriram Dalton * Mousam * Mousam Gogoi * Murtuza * Nandesh * Nandesh Umap * Naresh * Pankhi Dutta * Papon * Paresh * Parthiv Gohil * Qadir * Rabani * Raghu Dixit * Ramya Iyer * Richa Sharma * Rupmatii Jolly * Sabri Brothers * Sanjay Vidyarthi * Sanjeev Thomas * Saurav Moni * Shaan * Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan * Shankar Mahadevan * Shruti Pathak * Sunidhi Chauhan * Sur Sangam Club * Suzanne D'Mello * Tochi Raina * Ustad Rashid Khan * Wadali brothers * Zoheb Hussain

Season 2 (2012)

The second season officially aired from 7 July 2012 on MTV India and Doordarshan. Every episode featured a music composer with his own composed tracks. This season also had a total of 10 episodes, including two showing the best of Season 2. * Agam * Alisha Batth * Altamash Faridi * Amit Trivedi * Apeksha Dandekar * Ash Roy * Ashwin Srinivasan * Banjyotsana Borgohain *

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* Bhanu Pratap Singh * Bianca Gomes * Bonnie Chakraborty * Clinton Cerejo * Devender Pal Singh * Dhruv Sangari * Divya Kumar * Dominique Cerejo * Hari & Sukhmani * Harshdeep Kaur * Jake Charkey * Jasbir Jassi * Jyoti Nooran * Karsh Kale * Kaushiki Chakrabarty * La Pongal * Mahalakshmi Iyer * Mahesh Vinayakraman * Mame Khan * Mami Varte * Mandeep Sethi * Master Saleem * Mili Nair * Monali Thakur * Moora Lala * Nandini Srikar * Natalie Di Luccio * Nicki Wells * Papon * Piyush Mishra * Pranav Biswas * Prasad Khaparde * Raghubir Yadav * Salim Merchant * Salvation Singers * Samidha Joglekar * Sawan Khan Manganiyar * Shadab Faridi * Sharodee Borah * Shilpa Rao * Shriram Iyer * Shruti Pathak * Sonu Kakkar * Sugandha Garg * Sultana Nooran * Suman Shridhar * Swanand Kirkire * Usha Uthup * Vijay Prakash * Vishal Dadlani * Zila Khan After Season 2, a minicert was held at Rendezvous 2012, an annual cultural festival of

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featuring

Shilpa Rao Shilpa Rao (born Apeksha Rao; 11 April 1984) is an Indian singer born and raised in Jamshedpur. She completed her Post Graduation in Applied Statistics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, before working as a jingle singer for three years. During ...

, Papon and

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from 19 to 22 October 2012. The song "Husna" was featured in the Global Indian Music Academy Awards 2012. A minicert was held at Hard Rock Cafe, Hyderabad on 23 November 2012, featuring

Amit Trivedi Amit Trivedi (born 8 April 1979) is an Indian music director, singer and a lyricist who works primarily in Hindi films. After working as a theatre and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 200 ...

Hari & Sukhmani Hari & Sukhmani (also styled as Hari + Sukhmani or Hari and Sukhmani) is an Indian folktronic duo comprising Hari Singh Jaaj and Sukhmani Malik, who are known for fusing traditional folk music of Punjab with electronic music, and incorporating e ...

. Again a minicert was held at Hard Rock Cafe, New Delhi on 30 November 2012, featuring Papon and

Season 3 (2013)

Season 3 started to be aired from 17 August 2013 at MTV. The first full song was published on 1 August 2013. Named "Zariya", it was composed by

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. The second full song, "Bismillah", by

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, was published on 8 August 2013 on the eve of Eid. The third song, again by A. R. Rahman and named "Jagao mere des ko", was published on 14 August 2013, on the eve of Independence Day of India. On 22 August 2013 "Kattey" by

Ram Sampath Ram Sampath (born 25 July 1977) is an Indian composer, music producer and musician, who started his career composing advertising jingles for Mumbai-based advertising industry, subsequently he started composing for pop albums like ''Tanha Dil'' ( ...

was published. It is the fourth song and was published online before being aired on TV. There will be a total of ten episodes per season, each having one composer, including

, Papon,

Clinton Cerejo Clinton Cerejo is an Indian singer, music composer and musician. Life Clinton Cerejo was born into an academically inclined family with no known musical background. His father was an engineer at L&T and mother is a French professor. His elde ...

, Hitesh Sonik, and

. *

* Adi & Suhail *

Aditi Singh Sharma Aditi Singh Sharma is an Indian playback singer. She made her playback singing debut in Bollywood with Anurag Kashyap's '' Dev.D''. Sharma is known for her work in movies like '' Dev.D, No One Killed Jessica, Dhoom 3, 2 States, Agent Vinod,' ...

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Ani Choying Drolma Ani Choying Drolma (born 4 June 1971), also known as Choying Dolma and Ani Choying (''Ani'', "nun", is an honorific), is a Nepalese Buddhist nun of Tibetan origin and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal. She is known in Nepal and throug ...

Anirban Chakraborty Anirban Chakrabarti is an Indian Bengali film actor. Chakrabarti is known for portraying the character ''Ekenbabu'' in a web series. He also played the character Jatayu in a web series directed by Srijit Mukherji. Currently, he is portraying the ...

Anwesha Datta Gupta Anwesshaa (born Anwesha Mita Dattagupta; 15 December 1993, changed her artist name to Anwesshaa /sup>) is an Indian singer and composer in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi and others Indian languages. She first appeared in the re ...

Aruna Sairam Sangita Kalanidhi Aruna Sairam is an Indian classical vocalist and carnatic music singer. She is a recipient of the Padma Shri award from the Government of India and has been elected as Vice Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Academy (India's premier ...

* Bhanvari Devi * Bianca Gomes * Bismila Khan *

* Des Raj Lachkani (group) *

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Dulal Manki Dulal Manki is an Indian Assamese folk artist and musician. He is one of the traditional folk music artists from Tea-garden community of Assam. In 2021, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri for his contribution on music. Early life ...

* Faiz Mustafa *

Farah Siraj Farah Siraj ( ar, فرح سراج) is a Jordanian vocalist named as Jordan's “Musical Ambassadress”, has a career that spans the United States, Europe and the Middle East. She has performed at the United Nations, Nobel Prize Hall, the World Ec ...

* Gaurav Balani * Hamsika Iyer * Hans Raj Hans *

Hard Kaur Taran Kaur Dhillon (born 29 July 1979), known by her stage name Hard Kaur, is an Indian rapper and hip hop singer; as well as playback singer and actress in Bollywood. Early life Hard Kaur was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India on 29th July ...

Harshdeep Kaur Harshdeep Kaur (born 16 December 1986) is an Indian playback singer known for her Bollywood Hindi, Punjabi,English and Sufi songs. She is popularly known as "Sufi Ki Sultana" because of her soulful Sufi renditions. After winning titles in two ...

* Hasan Mustafa *

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* Jaggi *

Jonita Gandhi Jonita Gandhi is a Canadian playback singer of Indian descent. She has recorded songs predominantly in Hindi and Tamil languages with few in Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada and Malayalam languages. Some of her most ac ...

Kailash Kher Kailash Kher (born 7 July 1973) is an Indian music composer and singer. He sings songs with a music style influenced by Indian folk music and Sufi music. He was inspired by the classical musicians' Pandit Kumar Gandharva, Pandit Hridaynath Ma ...

Kalpana Patowary Kalpana Patowary is an Indian playback and folk singer from Assam. She sings in 30 languages and has many folk and popular songs to her credit, while Bhojpuri music has been her most dedicated foray. In his book, Cinema Bhojpuri, Avijit Ghosh l ...

* Karsan Sagathia * Karthik * Chandana Bala *

Kavita Seth Kavita Seth (born 14 September 1970) is an Indian singer, who is most known as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, as well as a performer of Ghazals and Sufi music, and leads a Sufi musical group, ''Karwaan Group''.Kutle Khan * Mangey 'Manga' Khan (Barmer Boys) * Munawar Masoom * Murtuza Mustafa * Nancy Aren Ao * Nikhil D' Souza * Papon *

Piyush Mishra Piyush Mishra (born as Priyakant Sharma; 13 January 1963) is an Indian actor, lyricist, playwright, musician and screenwriter. Mishra grew up in Gwalior, and graduated from National School of Drama, Delhi in 1986. Thereafter, he started his ca ...

* Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar * Qadir Mustafa * Rabbani Mustafa * Rayhanah & Issrath *

* Samantha Edwards *

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Shalmali Kholgade Shalmali Kholgade is an Indian playback singer, who predominantly sings for Hindi language films. In addition to Hindi, she has also sung in other Indian languages such as Marathi, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil. Through her singing career, she ha ...

Shraddha Pandit Shradha Pandit (born 4 July 1982) is an Indian playback singer. Career Shradha grew up in Mumbai and belongs to a large family of successful musicians, singers, music producers and actors. She learnt Hindustani Classical Music from her Grandf ...

Shruti Pathak Shruti Pathak is a Filmfare Award-nominated Indian playback singer and lyricist working in Hindi film industry. Early life She is a Gujarati, and was born and brought up in Ahmedabad, she moved to Mumbai to pursue singing as a career after fin ...

* Siddarth Basrur * Simanta Shekhar *

Sona Mohapatra Sona Mohapatra (born 17 June 1976) is an Indian singer, music composer and lyricist. In addition to her own material, Mohapatra has recorded remixes of songs by David Bowie, with " Let's Dance", and INXS, with "Afterglow", with the latter provin ...

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Sonu Kakkar Sonu Kakkar is an Indian playback singer, songwriter and television personality. She is the elder sister of Bollywood singers, Neha Kakkar and Tony Kakkar. Sonu Kakkar was born in Rishikesh on October 20, 1979 in Uttarakhand. One of her most po ...

* Suchi & Blaaze * Sukhwinder Singh * Sunidhi Chauhan *

Tanvi Shah Tanvi Shah is the first Indian woman to win a Grammy. Tanvi was born on 1 December 1985 in Tamil Nadu, India. She has sung in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu. In addition, she sings in Spanish, Portuguese and other romance languages, as well as Arabi ...

* Tarun *

Tochi Raina Tochi Raina (born 2 September 1971) is an Indian singer, composer and philosopher, best known as a playback singer in Hindi films. His most notable works include the songs ''Kabira'' for the movie "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani", "Iktara" from "Wake U ...

* Usri Banerjee *

Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan Ghulam Mustafa Khan (3 March 1931 – 17 January 2021) was an Indian classical musician in the Hindustani classical music tradition, belonging to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991, followed by Padma Bhushan ...

Ustad Rashid Khan Ustad Rashid Khan (born 1 July 1968) is an Indian classical musician in the Hindustani music tradition. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana, and is the great-grandson of gharana founder Inayat Hussain Khan. He is married to Soma Khan. ...

Vijay Prakash Vijay Prakash (born 21 February 1976) is an Indian Playback singer and also a Music Composer from Karnataka. He has given his voice for predominantly Kannada and Telugu language films. In addition, he has also sung in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam ...

* Winit Tikoo

Season 4 (2014)

* Anupam Roy * Babul Supriyo * Pradeep Giri * Bhanvari Devi * Bhungarkhan Manganiar * Bobkat * Dhruv Ghanekar *

Diljit Dosanjh Daljit Singh Dosanjh known professionally as Diljit Dosanjh (born 6 January 1984) is an Indian singer, actor, film producer and television personality. He works in Punjabi Music and subsequently in Punjabi and Hindi cinema. Dosanjh entered ...

* Divya Kumar *

Gurdas Maan Gurdas Maan is an Indian playback singer, songwriter and actor mainly associated with Punjabi and Hindi language music and films. He gained national attention in 1980 with the song "Dil Da Mamla Hai". Since then, he had gone on to record over 3 ...

Ila Arun Ila Arun is an Indian actress, TV personality and Rajasthani folk and folk-pop singer. She has appeared in many prominent Bollywood movies such as ''Lamhe'', ''Jodhaa Akbar'', ''Shaadi Ke Side Effects'' and ''Begum Jaan''. Personal life Arun ...

* Jashan Singh *

Jasmine Sandlas Jasmine Kaur Sandlas is an Indian-American singer, rapper, television personality, performer, songwriter who mainly sings Punjabi songs. She was also featured on the TEDx Talks, ''MTV'' Coke Studio and spoken word platforms. Jasmine Sandlas i ...

Jatinder Shah Jatinder Shah is an Indian music composer and record producer. He is primarily recognized for his compositions in Punjabi music and film industry. He has also composed for many Hindi films like Second Hand Husband and Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfrien ...

Jeet Gannguli Jeet Gannguli (, born Chandrajeet Ganguly, on 24 May 1977), is an Indian score composer of Bengali and Hindi movies. Early life and education Born in a Bengali Brahmin family, Gannguli was initiated into the world of music at the age of thr ...

Jyoti Nooran The Nooran Sisters are Sultana Nooran (born 14 June 1992) and Jyoti Nooran (born 24 February 1994) who are a devotional Sufi singing duo from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. Born to a family of Sufi musicians, they perform Sham Chaurasia gharana c ...

Kirtidan Gadhvi Kirtidan Gadhvi is an Indian singer from Gujarat. Early life GadhvI was born and raised in Valvod, kheda district,known as Madhya Gujarat. Kirtidan received his BPA and a MPA in music from the Faculty of Performing Arts, M. S. University, V ...

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Manj Musik Manjeet Singh Ral ( Punjabi: ਮਨਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਰਾਲ, born 24 January 1975), better known by his stage-name Manj Musik, is a British Indian composer, singer and Filmi scorer. He was one of the music composer for the bhangra mu ...

Master Saleem Master Saleem also known as Saleem Shahzada is an Indian singer who is known for his work as a devotional singer and also as a playback singer in Bollywood films, like ''Heyy Babyy'' (2007), '' Dostana'' and '' Love Aaj Kal'' (2009). He has als ...

Raftaar (rapper) Dilin Nair (born 16 November 1988), better known by his stage name Raftaar, is an Indian rapper, lyricist, dancer, TV personality and music composer associated with Hindi and Punjabi music. He started his career as a dancer. He began his care ...

* Raj Pandit *

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Rekha Bhardwaj Rekha Bhardwaj (born 24 January 1964) is an Indian singer and live performer. She has received two Filmfare and one National Awards. In addition to Hindi, she has also sung in Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi and Malayalam languages. Personal l ...

Rituraj Mohanty Rituraj Mohanty better known by his stage name Rituraj, is an Indian singer. Mohanty is the winner of a singing competition-show India's Raw Star. Life and career 1988–2011: Early life and career Rituraj Mohanty was born in Puri distric ...

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Satyaki Banerjee Satyaki Banerjee ( bn, সাত্যকি ব্যানার্জি) is an Indian Bengali composer. He is a part of an Anglo-Bengali band with members in Kolkata and London. He plays instruments like the dotara and the sarod, and his pe ...

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* Sharmilee Supriyo *

* Sonia Saigal * Sukhwinder Singh * Sunny Brown * Taniskha Sanghvi *

* Tony Sebastian *

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* Viveick Rajgopalan

Coke Studio concerts

After the second season, a concert was held at Chaos, an annual cultural festival of

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featuring

on 28 December 2013. Coke Studio Megacert was held on 9 November 2014 at Xpressions'14, the annual B-School fest of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. This programme featured the composer Amit Trivedi and was the biggest live concert in eastern India. After XIMB, it was organized at IIM Lucknow's fest Varchasva 2014 where Javed Ali performed and enthralled the audience. A Coke Studio Megacert was planned for Youth Vibe 2014, the Annual Global Youth Fest of

Lovely Professional University Lovely Professional University (LPU) is a private university located in Chaheru, Phagwara, Punjab, India. The university was established in 2005 by Lovely International Trust, under The Lovely Professional University Act, 2005 (Punjab Act 25 of ...

, featuring Ram Sampath, Sona Mohapatra and Vijay Prakash on 14 November 2014. This is the second time Coke Studio performed at Lovely Professional University. On 28 February 2016, the third megacert featured Diljit Doshanjh and Gurdas Maan. The concert was the biggest concert of Coke Studio so far, with a crowd of over 4,000. The event was organised by Student Entertainment and the Event Management Cell. On 17 October 2015 Coke Studio held a concert in

Jaipur Jaipur (; Hindi: ''Jayapura''), formerly Jeypore, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. , the city had a population of 3.1 million, making it the tenth most populous city in the country. Jaipur is also known ...

featuring artists such as Amit trivedi, Ram Sampath and Sona Mohapatra.

References

External links

Official website

''Coke Studio'' Season 4