Kayan (musician)

Indian musician

Ambika Nayak, known professionally as Kayan, is an Indian musician, singer and disc jockey.

Her stage name, Kayan, is derived from reversing her surname "Nayak". Additionally, she is also a part of the group Kimochi Youkai and the electronic music duo Nothing Anonymous with Nirmit Shah.[1][2] According to Nayak, her family was already musically inclined, with her mother being a Hindustani classical vocalist and her grandmother, a Kathak dancer, and she was thus able to get substantial exposure and training.[3]

By the end of 2021, she was reportedly one of the most streamed female indie artists on Spotify.[4][5]

In 2022, she released her seventh and eighth singles DFWM (abbreviation of Don't Fuck With Me) and No Shade, the latter of which featured Singaporean rapper Yung Raja.[6]

## Reception

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The magazine Man's World praised her live DJ sets as "passionately genre-agnostic, driven by feel and an inexplicable sixth-sense tied to her spectators", and claimed that they had been key to her overall musical popularity.[2]

## Discography

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Singles

* Cool Kids (2020)[7]
* Please (2020)[7]
* Be Alright (2021)[8]
* On My Own (2021)
* DFWM (2022)
* No Shade (2023)
* 52 (2023)
* stop calling me (2023)
* plenty (2023)

## Filmography

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### Web series

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Ref

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2021  | Hello Mini | Vixy  | Season 2  | [9]

## References

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1. ^ "Watch Kayan's Fresh Music Video for New Single 'Cool Kids'". Rolling Stone India. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
2. ^ a b "Fashion, Passion And More: Meet Ambika Nayak aka Kayan". Man's World. 24 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
3. ^ "Kayan to rock, jazz in Hyderabad". The New Indian Express. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
4. ^ "10 indie artistes who shook up India's music scene in 2021". Vogue India. 28 December 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
5. ^ "Checking in with Kayan: Ambika Nayak talks about going solo, DJing and fashion". Mid-day. 29 January 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
6. ^ Ng, Scott (15 August 2022). "India's Kayan enlists Yung Raja for new single 'No Shade'". NME. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
7. ^ a b "Best Of 2020: Indian Noisemakers On Our Radar". Man's World. 29 December 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
8. ^ "10 Best Indian Music Videos of 2021". Rolling Stone India. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
9. ^ "Singers Kayan and Noor Chahal: On YouTube Music Foundry, and breaking out in style". The Hindu. 24 September 2022.

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