Kary Arora
# Kary Arora

Kary Arora (born 7 January 1977) is an Indian DJ. She is best known as India's first female DJ. Arora began DJing in 1997 and became the 5th female music composer in Bollywood. She ventured into music composition, writing lyrics, rapping, grunge singing.

## Early life and education

Kary Arora was born in Chandigarh, India on 7 January 1977. There were no profound DJing schools back in India in 1997, so she joined Adersh sound and light company in Delhi as a sound labor/DJ for 300 rupees to understand digital connections of console. She taught herself DJing in a year, while shifting jobs in Delhi. Her training for music and keyboards happened under Guru Ravi Prakash, provides her with a greater understanding of music. She studied Audio Engineering at SAE Institute in Chennai to improve her skills of songwriting.

## Musical career

### As a DJ

She began Djing in 1997 as a freelance. Her first resident DJing was in club Temptation in Delhi from 1999 to 2000, then joined Buzz-Delhi from 2001 to 2004, Flames in Le Meridian-Chennai in 2005, Buzz-Gurgaon, Delhi-NCR from 2006 to 2008 and until present she has been freelancing performing in clubs across the globe.

### As a songwriter

From Jingles to Bollywood Songs, she has made a mark in all parts of Indian music industry. She has successfully juggled between roles; be it a Singer, composer, music director or an Audio Engineer. Kary is one of those rare breed of music directors who would walk a mile to record best suited tunes and come up with absolute wicked songs required to meet the demands of the script. In 2008 she composed her first single Funny Happy B'day to U for Meow Fm, in 2009 composed a background score 48 Sec of Morning Melody for CNEB channel. Spectral Records released her two singles Sanware ki Dhun and De De Deedaar De in 2013. In 2013, she made her debut as music composer in Bollywood movie Satya 2 with her song Satya is Back Again In 2015, she composed song Tinko ke Sahare in movie Angry Indian Goddesses.

## Awards and nominations

Limca Book of Records honored Arora as India's first woman DJ in 2014. In her residency, Buzz has been awarded of Best Bar with dancing in 2007 and Best Bar of the town in 2008 by Times Nightlife of India. Arora was featured in the documentary 360 Degree DJs, and was ranked as one of Delhi's top five DJs for two years.

## Discography

### Soundtracks

| Title | Details | Year |
| - | - | - |
| Satya Is Back Again | Movie: Satya 2 Music: Kary Arora Lyricist: Kary Arora Singers: Arsalaan Akhoon, Kary Arora Dialogues: Makarand Deshpande Director: Ram Gopal Varma Producer: M Samanth Kumar Reddy Label: T-Series Formats: Digital download, CD | 2013 |
| Tinko Ke Sahare | Movie: Angry Indian Goddesses Music: Kary Arora Lyricist: Kary Arora Singers: Kary Arora Director: Pan Nalin Producer: Gaurav Dhingra Label: T-Series Formats: Digital download, CD | 2015 |

### Remixes

| Title | Details | Year |
| - | - | - |
| Babuji Dheeray Chalna Remix | Remix: Kary Arora Singer: Samira Raza Album: Rooh Label: Moonlight Productions Formats: Digital download, CD | 2011 |
| Do Lafzon Ki Hai Remix | Remix: Kary Arora Singer: Sheena Chawla Label: Powerplay Records Formats: Digital download, CD | 2011 |
| Ishq Mein Ruswa Remix | Remix: Kary Arora Singer: Anweshaa Film: Dangerous Ishhq Director: Vikram Bhatt Label: T-Series Formats: Digital download, CD | 2012 |

### Singles

| Title | Details | Year |
| - | - | - |
| Sanware ki dhun me | Music,Singer: Kary Arora Lyricist: Pooja Genre: Lounge Label: Spectral Records Formats: Digital download, CD | 2013 |
| De De Deedaar De | Music, lyricist, Singer: Kary Arora Genre: Bollywood Dance Music Label: Spectral Records Formats: Digital download, CD | 2013 |

### Background scores

| Title | Details | Year |
| - | - | - |
| 48 Sec of Morning Melody | Music, lyricist, Singer: Kary Arora Producer: CNEB Pvt Ltd | 2009 |
