Nashville, TN - This Wednesday, August 10, 2022, the Ryman Auditorium and legendary Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist, A.R. Rahman will make history!  Dubbed one of the most celebrated venues in modern music, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN, recognizes another momentous occasion as A.R. Rahman becomes the first Indian performer in history to sell out the 130-year-old historical auditorium.

On this extraordinary night, A.R. Rahman will be presented with a very special award honoring his achievement by Greg Patel, an active leader of the Nashville Indian Community and representative of Kash Patel Productions, a U.S.-based organization dedicated to bringing legendary Indian artists to the U.S.

“This is an incredible moment,” says Kash Patel, CEO of Kash Patel Productions. “We have been working hard for many years to help bring awareness to Indian artists, and it is an honor to now have one of our greats playing and selling out one of the most recognized venues in the world, right here in music city!”

This sold-out show is just one of many on his full U.S. & Canada tour with his most recent shows.  

About A. R. Rahman

Grammy and Academy Award-winning musician A.R. Rahman is best known as an Indian film composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist who works predominantly in Indian and international cinema. With an early start in jingle writing from an at-home studio, he has grown through the decades into one of the highest-paid composers in the motion picture industry and one of the world’s all-time top-selling recording artists.

Named by Times Magazine as one of the World’s Most Influential People, this two-time Acadamy Award winner and two-time Grammy Award and winner of a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards, and thirteen Filmfare Awards, is appropriately described as the “Mozart of Madras."  

Some of his most notable awards were from Slumdog Millionaire (2008) where he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song and his BMI Award for his very first Hollywood film, the comedy Couples Retreat (2009.)  Now in 2022, he expands in his craft to writer and director for a new film titled, Le Musk, an Indian virtual reality film.

For more information on A.R. Rahman, please visit his website https://www.arrahman.com/

About Kash Patel Productions

Officially founded in 2016 and led by Kash Patel, Kash Patel Productions has redefined the US Bollywood concert industry with a six-year series of back-to-back sold-out shows featuring Mika Singh, Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Shreya Ghoshal, Neha Kakkar, Atif Aslam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Badshah, Aastha Gill, Sonu Nigam, and AR Rahman.

This unrivaled accomplishment has earned Kash Patel Productions recognition throughout the Indian Community, both overseas and in the United States, for promoting an elevated Bollywood cultural experience. Over the last several years, KPP has produced events with the biggest names in the Bollywood world, and with a recent expansion into Nashville 'The Music City' bringing the first-ever major Bollywood production to that region, and with a massive national expansion that includes Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Kansas City, Phoenix, Boston, Charlotte, Austin, Oakland, Seattle, and Chicago, the best is yet to come! To follow along with Kash Patel Productions please visit their website KashPatelProductions.com