Biddu

The first east Indian producer to be showered with a cascade of accolades and high praise outside his home country, and then to become the guru of Hindi-pop back inside it, the singularly named Biddu worked for years in his homeland, both within the music industry (he was a member of a Rolling Stones-ish pop group) and without, before he decamped to England to seriously pursue his musical ambitions. As an immigrant landing in London in the late 1960s, however, Biddu soon discovered that, in order to open the doors he wished to, he'd have to save money. He worked for a time a...