Raj Ramayya is a session singer/composer and part of the duo Beautiful Losers with guitarist Brett Boyd.Ramayya was born in Saskatchewan, and is of Indian heritage. He has won and been nominated for several music awards for his scoring including Best Soundtrack from Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association's "NextFest" for his Bhang Lassi, which is featured in the multiple Gemini award winning documentary Cosmic Current. He is also featured on the critically acclaimed Anime series Cowboy Bebop and Wolf's Rain, singing tracks on both of the internationally renowned soundtracks with Japanese composer Yoko Kanno. Ramayya is credited with over 250 TV commercials with co-writing, writing and singing contributions and well over a 1,000,000 in sales by soundscan.
Performs as a solo acoustic act and is in two bands The Beautiful Losers and Raj & The Zen Masters.
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Lives in the San Francisco Bay area teaching music production and sound design at Academy of Art University as well as composing for Film and Television and touring as a solo and full band act internationally at mainly Anime and Game music conventions and festivals.
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cooking for Two
2016
Path of Pilgrims
2014
Documentary
Who Killed Gandhi?
2013
Documentary
Mad Cow Sacred Cow
2009
Documentary
Tonari no hito
2004
Short
Cosmic Current
2004
Documentary
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Wolf's Rain
2003
TV Series performer: "Strangers" / writer: "Strangers"
Gungrave
2002
Video Game "Here Comes The Rain" / lyrics: "Here Comes The Rain"
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
2001
lyrics: "Cosmic Dare Pretty with a Pistol" / performer: "Ask DNA"
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Chokeslam
2016
composer: theme music
The Revolutionary Optimists
2013
Documentary composer: additional music - guitar/sitar
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