Uday Benegal

Uday Benegal is one of India’s most influential independent musicians. Best known as the lead singer and founder of India’s leading rock band, Indus Creed, Uday began his journey in the mid-’80s with one of India’s earliest groups, Rock Machine. With those two pioneering bands, he blazed trails across India and abroad through the ’90s. Along with touring the (then) USSR in 1988, he won an Asia-wide MTV Video Music Award for the Indus Creed song “Pretty Child,” performed live with Guns ‘N Roses guitarist Slash, shared the stage with Bon Jovi, and played at Peter Gabriel’s prestigious WOMAD festival in the UK. After a nine-year run in New York with his Indo rock'n'funk band Alms for Shanti, Uday returned to India and reunited Indus Creed in 2010. In 2012 they released their album “Evolve" which was mixed by the renowned Grammy-nominated mixing engineer Tim Palmer. In 2013, Indus Creed were awarded Best Band at the Jack Daniel’s Rock Awards and a year later were bestowed with Vh1’s first ever Hall of Fame award.