Recording Artist, Music Producer,
Drummer, Coach

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22.11.2024: Zephyr released the song and music video for his new single, "Awaken". Awaken is a track with a strong spiritual awakening message in layman’s language, set against a Hip-Hop-esque Pop beat. The production has typical pop sensibilities from the arrangement to the instrumentation. The Chorus adds horns and synths to elevate the energy and contrast the melancholy and self-reflection inducing Verses.

He decided to mix singing together with a spoken word section for the bridge, in an “Alien” voice with a cheeky message. Whether the modified voice is speaking fact or fiction, is up to the audience to decide for themselves. Zephyr decided to release this song at a time of global uncertainty and the music video helps it to culminate into a strong message to humanity.

Previously, in 2022, Zephyr released an eclectically influenced Pop/Dance/EDM single, Jungles (Dance Mix), on April 1st. It was a mashup of Pop, Electronica, Hip-Hop, House, Celtic and Drum Crew styles. Check out the music video shot on the streets of Chicago, here. This song was featured by Apple Music on their curated playlist, "New Music Daily" in April 2022. It peaked at number 22 (in the world).

Zephyr's new Deep House track, My Religion Is Love, dropped 21st January 2022 and was featured on ExpatChoice.Asia and Life In Arpeggio, among others. 

Stream it on major music platforms here or check out the audio video here.

Zephyr Khambatta is a recording artist, music producer & drummer. His music & story have been featured on MTV Asia, VH1 India, Teen Radio (Yangon), KWSS 93.9FM (U.S.), CityFm89 (Pakistan), CNA938 (Singapore), Channel NewsAsia (Singapore), Coconuts (Yangon), The Straits Times (Singapore), TODAYonline (Singapore) & most recently, Apple Music's flagship playlist, New Music Daily, in April 2022!

In 2020, Zephyr mastered the song Sitaray that was played by Pakistan's CityFM89, a leading Pakistan radio station on their independence day. In 2019, having recently undergone a massive spiritual awakening & transformation, he released Starseed & Reminisce. In 2020, new sound explorations led to The Dance Of The Ego. 

In 2018, Zephyr released an alternative pop number The Other Side featuring Charles ENERO, Singapore's top battle rapper. The track was co-written with and initially the idea and lyrics of writer Tanuj Khosla. In Jan 2018 during a Yangon promo tour, the song premiered live on FG Entertainment's Teen Radio with an evening primetime radio interview & he was also interviewed by Burmese pop star Ah Moon for Popular Journal, at the Hard Rock Yangon, along with music collaborator Marcel Lee Pereira. Coconuts also covered the story.

Earlier that year he also featured as a singer on Iranian producer Skerra’s track “Simple”, as a singer-songwriter, to be re-released in 2023/2024.

In 2017, the MV for Sail Away, directed by Alex Di Marco (Wiz Khalifa, Khalid) was played on MTV Asia & VH1 India 30 times in its release month. Zephyr also featured on drums on Marcel Lee Pereira’s track & music video, Shut Up And Take My Money (>85k views across platforms).

He first rose to prominence in the Singapore scene in 2016 when TODAYonline covered his music including Miles Away (an EDM dance number featuring Singaporean award-winning actress Charis Vera with >180k views across platforms, initially released in April 2015 and then re-mastered and re-relased in 2018 upon disbanding of his group Chocolate Island), and More (his first single in December 2015 after he decided to go solo, to be re-released in 2023/2024). More, also gained him coverage in Berita Harian (Singapore) & India.

In 2014, Khambatta composed, produced the music for & featured a rap performance in Ministry of Funny’s song & YouTube video, Snapback. (>40k views). In 2013 fresh out of LASALLE College of the Arts, Khambatta had provided input on the final mix sessions for the Bollywood film D-Day (starring Rishi Kapoor & Arjun Rampal) as an intern at Prime Focus World.

He won 2nd place (Band Category) at the “IGNITE! Music Festival: Clash of the Bands 2012” competition, judged by Iskandar Ismail (student of the composer of Singapore's National Anthem) and others, while waiting for the final year of his Music Degree to begin, in the holidays. Prior to that, he scored a feature in The Straits Times (Singapore's leading English newspaper), mentioning his graduation recital on drums to readers on May 5th, 2012.

During his degree and for a time after, 2009 to 2014 he played with the top percussion bands in the country, Urban Drum Crew and Bloco Singapura, & was part of Urban Drum Crew for “China-Singapore In-Concert 2010” which was screened to 100 million viewers.

From 2009 to 2021, he was also been playing for and with about 20 smaller unknown local bands, as a drummer, sound engineer and producer many of which he led and groomed. He also taught drums for 10 years from 2009 to 2019 to a diverse age group from 3+ to 65. New projects with him as a drummer are always in exploration as drumming is one of his passions.

He is the creator of the largest Facebook group for Singapore Music, aptly titled, Singapore Music (> 6000 members) & “Global Performing Artists & Entertainers” (>1k Members).

Zephyr has also facilitated music and audio projects for UOB Bank and Indian NGO Sulabh International.

In 2019, Zephyr was exploring ways to give back to the music community and budding recording artists, music producers and musicians. He decided to set up a platform called "Modern Recording Artist" to be built as time allowed to teach musicians of any background how to express themselves by becoming recording artists and releasing their own material, by sharing everything that he has learnt in his time in music going from entering arts college only knowing how to play 2 songs on drums, to becoming a media-featured recording artist who continues to release authentic music to this day.

He has been taking on 1-on-1 students on a consulting basis since 2019, when time allows. Testimonials are available here - testimonials. Also, you can check out the YouTube channel as it begins to be populated with content, or check out Zephyr's main channel instead.

"Your music could save a life." - Zephyr