Organizers announce the \u201cBang Bang\u201d concert in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n
\u2018Bang Bang\u2019 concert will feature Benny Dayal and his band FunktuaTion. Benny will be accompanied by vocalist Shakthisree Gopalan of Nenjukulle<\/i> fame. The concert is scheduled for Nov. 13.<\/p>\n
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GiGGurus, a brand new events-initiative along with a few like-minded organizations, have come together to put together entertaining \u201cgigs\u201d for the South Asian community.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the concert Kavita, one of the founding members of Gig Gurus said, \u201cBenny is an exceptionally talented singer. The Bang Bang event is not a typical Bollywood concert.\u00a0 It is an entire entertainment package. We are the only concert with a dedicated dance floor for our patrons.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the launch meet some of the esteemed founding members of Gig Gurus including Rakhi Israni and Nitesh Singh of Excel Test Prep were present and vouched their support for this novel initiative.<\/p>\n
Gig Gurus and Media Mahima also introduced to the press the beneficiary partners of the event. We have handpicked three non-profit organizations as the Seva beneficiary partners; Sankara Eye Foundation, Community Seva and Jeena.<\/p>\n
Each Seva Beneficiary will receive $10 per ticket for every ticket that is purchased from our website www.giggurus.events with the unique \u201cseva code\u201d provided to each of the organizations.<\/p>\n
Each of the beneficiary partner has the potential of selling up to 2,000 tickets and the possibility to raise $20,000 for their respective causes via the promotion of ticket sales with the use of their assigned SEVA codes.<\/p>\n
Benny is the recipient of the prestigious Filmfare<\/i> R.D. Burman Award for New Music Talent. The singer got his first break when he sang for Oscar award winning music director A.R. Rahman for a Tamil movie. Benny Dayal has sung in various languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu among others. Benny is widely popular for hit songs such as \u201cPappu Can\u2019t Dance,\u201d \u201cBang Bang,\u201d \u201cLocha E Ulfat,\u201d \u201cEk Mein Hoon.. Au Ek Tu,\u201d \u201cKaise Mujhe Tum Mil Gayi..\u201d \u201cRehna Tu..\u201d\u201cBadtameez Dil\u201d amongst many others. Benny has worked with some of the top music directors of the industry like A.R. Rahman, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal-Shekhar, Pritam, Amit Trivedi among others.<\/p>\n
Born and raised in Abu Dhabi, Benny\u2019s band FunktuaTion is known for its unique funkrock style and have performed live all over India and in several countries outside of India. This, \u201cBang Bang\u201d concert, however, will be their first show in the U.S.<\/p>\n
Shakthisree is a vocalist and also has her own band \u2018Off The Record.\u2019 She has been the backing vocalist for many A.R. Rahman songs before the music director gave her a break in Nenjukulle<\/i> for the movie, Kadal<\/i>. She is a two-time winner of the prestigious Filmfare<\/i> Award for Best Playback Singer (Tamil).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Organizers announce the \u201cBang Bang\u201d concert in Silicon Valley. \u2018Bang Bang\u2019 concert will feature Benny Dayal and his band FunktuaTion. Benny will be accompanied by vocalist Shakthisree Gopalan of Nenjukulle fame. The concert is scheduled for Nov. 13. GiGGurus, a brand new events-initiative along with a few like-minded organizations, have come together to put together…<\/p>\n