Born and raised in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, UK of Indian parentage, singer-songwriter Vijay Kishore has quietly been causing something of a stir musically with his ambiguous folk-tinged fusion of his Anglo-Asian heritage
Bringing favourable comparisons from listeners to everything from the sufi-infused tones of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to Thom Yorke, Jeff Buckley or even Nina Simone and PJ Harvey.
A guerilla gig in a clothes store in Manchester around the time of the In The City festival of 2005 is where industry interest in Vijay began (after being spotted by his now-manager Rob Mckenzie playing at a friend's party in Birmingham earlier in the year), word spread from the lucky few that witnessed this performance, and his off-schedule show the next day had curious label scouts in attendance.