Biography
Kali Prasad Baskota (Nepali: काली प्रसाद बास्कोटा) is a Nepali singer, musician and lyricist. Baskota has judged in season four of Nepali Reality show Nepal Idol. He has also judged a child reality show called "sa re ga ma pa lil champs Nepal".
Baskota started his music career in 2007/8, as a lyricist and composer for the song Chahana Sakiyo Bahana Sakiyo sung by Sashi Rawal. Some of his earlier hits are “Laija Re” sung by Hemant Rana, and “Bida nai deu baru” sung by Azad Dhungana. His 2017 song called “Saili” sung by Hemant Rana was trending worldwide on No. 14 on YouTube after the first week of its release. The song also made the record for getting more than 400,000 views in YouTube in first 24 hours of release, which was the most views any Nepali song got till that date.
Baskota has created songs like “Jaalma”, “Nira”, “Lappan Chappan”, “Panchi”, and “Daiba Hey” for feature films. Baskota did his singing debut with the song “Jaalma” from the movie Resham filili, which is one of the biggest hit songs in Nepali movie industry. In recent times, his song "Thamel Bazaar" from the movie Loot 2 (a sequel to the highly successful movie Loot, directed by Nischal Basnet) is one of the most viewed Nepali songs; it ranks third amongst the most viewed Nepali songs on YouTube.
Some of his most recent songs are “Ajambari”, sung by himself and Melina Rai for the movie Gangster Blues starring Aashirman DS Joshi and Anna Sharma, and “Okhati” from the movie Mr. Jholay starring Dayahang Rai. He has been providing his songs for popular franchises named Kabaddi (has 4 sequals) & Jatra (has 3 sequels) every time a new sequel comes out. His popular songs for those franchise includes “Malai maya pirati” (Kabaddi), ”jiban jatra ho” (Jatra), “sustari” (Kabaddi), and “Sathi” (Jatra).
In 2019 Baskota's song "sali man paryo" from the film "ghamad shere" was the most popular song of that year and now it is among the top 5 most viewed songs in Nepal. His other songs like "Maya pirari, insta ko photo and funfunny" were also very popular. His fame didn't seem to quit even after two heavy lockdowns. From 2020 to 2022 he released many viral songs among which his song “Maya raicha ra” from "Fulbari" got the most recognition.
In 2023, he wrote and sang a song named “Chari Basyo” for the film Jaari. In 2024 too, he has provided music for a very popular song, "Rai maila" for a film "gau aayeko bato".
Baskota is a mechanical engineer by education, and worked at the famous Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Kathmandu for over a decade before becoming a full-time musician since 2015.
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