Sahaj ticotin biography
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History
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Early years: 1996–1998
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My brother brought home a wide variety of music including Stanley Clarke, Return to forever, and Peter Gabriel. I was heavily influenced by that and then later discovered the police.
3.What about professionally, what were your 1st favorite bands or artists that influenced you as a young artist?
the police is my biggest influence it then moved into Black Sabbath Soundgarden, Korn, Joe Satriani, and Queensryche.
4.So..What are you jamming/listening to currently today?
If we were to pull up your playlist what would we see?
on the rocks I die like bring me The horizon and asking Alexandria on the pop side I really like Billie eilish Khalid and Bruno Mars.
Any current favorite movies, directors, artists or tv shows you are following?
I'm a big marvel fan so all the marvel movies are fun for me. I also really enjoy a good Sci-Fi. I really enjoyed the Last blade runner and I also watch curb your enthusiasm on TV.
5.So take us back a bit to the very start of the creation of the band RA ,
The name Ra obviously named after the egyptian sun god ..but
Can you tell us a little more in detail why you chose this name for the band,?
My favorite artist was Sting and he used to
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Daniel "Sahaj" Ticotin (born April 5, 1969), is a Puerto Rican - Russian American musician and record producer, and the vocalist/guitarist/producer from the Rock band Ra. Sahaj was born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Russian-Jewish father. During a pilgrimage to India in 1992, he learned more of the Egyptian Sun God, Ra, which became the name of his band.
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, on the track "Skorn". Sahaj Ticotin overtook the previous record of 20.2 seconds which was held by Morten Harket, the lead singer of a-ha, in the song, "Summer Moved On."
He is the brother of motion picture and television actress Rachel Ticotin.
He has produced Downstait under his own company, Sahaja Music Records.
Getting ready to release his solo album, "Sahaj - Another Minute", in 2011.