Dan Vaibhav Gujral (b1981)
Dan Vaibhav Gujral is a Grantham-based contemporary musician
He became interested in music while still at school (hated school so not saying) and by the early 90s he’d joined various choral groups performing both local and national shows winning several awards for singing in the process. It was while in these groups that the first interest arose in writing his own material.
By the late 90s he was still performing and writing his own songs, forming the first of several bands (Including the original line up of Rhesus Gene, a name suggested by Dan and, after much dIscussion, accepted by the now former band members) while at secondary school.
By the end of the 90s he decided to concentrate his efforts into his own music and decided to leave the choral groups.
When he went to Grantham College, music was still very much a part of his life if not a daily activity for him, while there he took the very first steps into recording, recording several demos in the process, (These would, however, merely end up on a shelf collecting dust forgotten about for the next 10 years).
He moved away taking a variety of jobs including major sporting events, travelling round the world and including a spell in the Armed Forces. He returned home and now works in a town centre pub.
Soon after the first incarnation of Rhesus Gene was formed, playing several small local gigs in the Lincolnshire area, as the early 2000s wore on, music was playing less and less of a role in his life till eventually it stopped all together.
Then in November 2010, after completing the very first new composition for several years he decided to restart his interest in music, set up a page on Facebook and started to look through his by now extensive catalogue of compositions, selecting four, these would go on to form 2011s Last Chance EP. After a slow start it gained some interest in America and Canada and responding to requests for more songs, he looked through the old demos recorded 10 years previously. Untouchable was found to be the best quality and after being cleared up was also released.
2012 saw the Majestic EP’s release, and a continuation of people listening around the world, as far away as New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, feeling ready to take on something bigger, he decided to attempt to record, not just a full album, but a concept album, and in 2013 did just that with the release of Centurion.
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