NASYA “The Fusion Band”
NASYA is a "Fusion Rock Band" based in Delhi. Playing a blend of Sufi, Qawwali, Punjabi Folk & Bollywood Songs with western elements of Jazz, Blues, Metal, Funk and Rock Music, their sound is distinctly characteristic. They have been an active name in the Music & Entertainment Industry with a milestone of performing more than "2500 Live Shows Worldwide" including some Biggest Music Festivals, "Television & Radio Featurings" like MTV, Colours, Life Ok, Sahara, Aajtak, Radio Mirchi, Red Fm, Big Fm & many more.
The Name "NASYA" comes from the Hebrew Language meaning "A miracle of God”. It's indeed quite a miracle that these talented and skilled individuals from extremely diverse musical backgrounds could come together and realize their dream to play rousing music while transcending boundaries of influences, genres and stereotypes.
Kunaaal Wason
"Kunaaal Wason" is a Singer, Composer, Lyricist, Music Producer & the Founder of the Fusion Rock Band “NASYA” based in Delhi which has featured in most of the Big Music Festivals, Television & FM Radio like Mtv, Life Ok, Colours, Red Fm, Radio Mirchi, Hindustan Times, Times Of India & Many More. He is a "Post graduate" in International Marketing from "Delhi School of Economics" & started his singing career quite early in the year 2007. He has performed more than 2500 shows worldwide including countries like Fiji, China, Dubai, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, India & Many More.
He has performed alongside Celebrities like Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Bohemia, Honey Singh, Mika Singh, B Praak, Rekha Bhardwaj, Sukh-e, Kailash Kher, Papon, Arif Lohar, Jaspinder Narula, Harshdeep Kaur, Shibani Kashyap, Raju Shrivastav, Manoj Tiwari, Alfaaz, Ayushman Khurana and Bands Like Noori Coke Studio, Parikrama, Indian Ocean, Euphoria, Jal to name just a few. Apart from being a Humanitarian, his positive attitude and sharp sense of humour rubs off on everyone he interacts with, be it his teammates or the audience he mesmerizes with his voice.
Meet Our Artists
"The Most Unbeatable” band member, Nasya is blessed to have Manish on keys. He might look the most calm headed member on the stage but he is surely the one who makes the sound sonically very different.
Apart from playing Live, he is an established Music Director, who has composed & produced music albums for Legends like Abida Parveen, Sartinder Sartaj & a few more.
Prateek is perhaps one of the finest guitar players in the Delhi’s music circuit. Coming from Jamshedpur, Mukherjee was influenced by the blues and started playing it under the guidance of the legendary Amit Datta. There was no stopping him once he got into playing music professionally. With his dream of spreading his music to all parts of the word, Mukherjee has already played in three continents. Being an avid performer, you can never expect a dull moment on stage. when you have Prateek Mukherjee spreading his magic with his guitar.
Abhishek has been playing a variety of percussion instruments ranging from "Tabla, Dholak, Darbuka, Djembe and a variety of shaker instruments for last 15 years.
He hails from a family of musicians, being exposed to Hindustani Classical Music from a tender age.
Having trained under his Father he draws his inspiration from legendary tabla player "Zakir Hussain Ji".
Divesh Karki is a Delhi based bassist who has performed more than 1500+ shows all across India and abroad with an experience of more than 7 years. He prides over improvised music as his area of expertise & has worked with many well-known Artists & Bands like Vishal mishra, Tochi raina, Ustad iqbal Ahmad Khan, Shipra goyal, Milind gaba, Jassi gill, babbal rai, Maninder buttar, etc. Blending various music forms with bollywood numbers, he is dedicated to take the level of entertainment and music to a new heights.
"Believing in positivity and spreading positivity is what I believe while composing every single grove", says Nasya’s drummer Maurya. He started his journey as a musician at the age of 10, getting inspired by rock music. He performed with bands and find out his purpose of life. He believes that music is all about presenting a story and speaking the hearts out.
Faiz, hails purely from an Indian Classical Gharana & hence brings some really sweet backing melodies, taans & alaaps in the band. He prides over improvised music as his area of expertise & has worked with many well-known Artists & Bands across the nation.
From Sufi To Bollywood
Sufi, Folk, QAWWALI - Something what NASYA is best known for. Songs like "Jugni Ji, Dum Mast Qalandar, Ki Banu and others are always appreciated a lot by all sets of the audiences. Sufi/Folk/Qawwali is Nasya's forte. From Legendary Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to Gurdas Maan Sahab, band loves paying a tribute by covering them all.
Bollywood - From romantic songs to the sad ones, bollywood music always acts like a bridge between the audience and the artist for the better connection. Over the period of 8 years, Nasya has grown a great sense of liking for bollywood music and created a lot of their own versions of many hit songs.
Retro - OLD IS GOLD, Band definitely believes that nothing can replace the beauty of old retro numbers. It has its own magic to refresh the mood n set it right. Well you must listen to the band's version of songs like "Inteha ho gayi, Ye jo Mohobatt hai, Tum Jo Mil Gaye Ho" etc laced with the jazz n blues transitions.
Dance With Us - This is what we do at private parties, from London Thumakda to Ever Green Daler Mehndi Songs. We call it a Non Stop “Punjabi Dhol Mashup”