How Indian Rapper Producer Illah Found Home In The Ganglands Of Los Angeles
RollingStone India|March 2019

Mayurath Sinh Gupta is out with his latest auto-tune employing collaboration “No More”

Anurag Tagat
How Indian Rapper Producer Illah Found Home In The Ganglands Of Los Angeles

ON THE surface of it, it’s easy to sum up Los Angeles-based singer-producer Mayurath Sinh Gupta aka Illah as a metalhead who got into emo trap, but there’s much more in the mix. From his days in electro/metalcore band IAFWAY and Rabbit Is Rich in New Delhi to jamming riffs for L.A. band SHUN and now on the come-up as Illah, Sinh has established stable footing in both worlds.

Although the 21-year-old has been visiting his second home in Los Angeles in California since 1999, he enrolled at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles in 2015, pursuing audio engineering. He says about his decision to move and get into music full-time, “At the time my parents were facing a trial in court and as that continued, I decided that I had to find ways to make money in order to fund myself.”

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