Daniel "Sahaj" Ticotin (born April 5, 1969) is an American musician, vocalist, guitarist, record producer, and lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the
alternative metal
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bands
Raand Meytal.
Biography
Sahaj was born to a
Puerto Rican mother and a Russian-
Jewish
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father, the brother of motion picture and television actress,
Rachel Ticotin
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. During a pilgrimage to
India
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in 1992, he studied meditation and was given the name "Sahaj". He currently lives in
Woodland Hills, California, where he produces and composes for various artists. Associated acts are Ra, Motley Crue, STΛRSΞT, Meytal, New Years Day, Stitched Up heart, Otherwise, Texas Hippie Coalition, September Mourning, Lajon Witherspoon, Diamante, Tommy Vext and many others...
Sahaj held the record for longest single note, for a male vocalist, in a song, having held a high B for 24 seconds. He was overtaken by Jan Werner Danielsen of Norway with 28 seconds in his live version of Nella Fantasia. This record breaker can be heard on Ra's live album, ''
Raw
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* Raw food, uncooked food
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'', on the track "Skorn". Sahaj Ticotin overtook the previous record of 20.2 seconds which was held by
Morten Harket
Morten Harket () (born September 14, 1959) is a Norwegian vocalist and songwriter, who is the lead singer of the synthpop/rock band A-ha.
A-ha has released 10 studio albums to date, and topped the charts internationally after their breakthrough ...
, the lead singer of
A-ha, in the song, "Summer Moved On".
He has produced ''Downstait'' under his own company, Sahaja Music Records.
, Sahaj was fronting the band Meytal with lead vocals, lead/rhythm guitar, bass, and backing vocals.
Discography
Ra albums
Solo albums
Meytal albums
See also
*
List of Puerto Ricans
References
External links
*
Interview with Sahaj and his band Ra*
*
Sahaj's Myspace Ra's Myspace Downstait's Myspace
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1974 births
Living people
People from Tarzana, Los Angeles
American people of Russian descent
American musicians of Puerto Rican descent
21st-century American male singers
21st-century American singers