and adds with a laugh, “Maybe after a couple of beers, my Tamil can be fully local!”
The 28-year-old singer-songwriter is not a new face in the indie music circuit. The MBA graduate has been making music since he was 16 he picked up his first instrument at age 11 and for the longest time was associated with the alt rock band Franks got the Funk.
So how does a rock musician end up doing reggae, as his Instagram handle suggests? Bjorn laughs. “I have always loved African and Jamaican sounds. I have loved reggae and dancehall (a Jamaican musical genre), but I never really released anything. In 2020, during lockdown, I decided to release a dancehall song on social media. I have released a few more now,” he says, hinting that he wishes to continue exploring reggae going forward. “I don’t like sticking to one genre.”