Biography

Aditya Jassi was born in New Delhi, India, son of Documentary Film-Maker/Author Jaswin Jassi and Kiran Jassi. He initially studied in Air Force Bal Bharati School, Lodhi Road in Delhi and later went to a boarding school in Dehradun- Welham Boys’ School. It was here that he was introduced & fell in love with Music & Theater. In college however, Theater took a back seat and Music & Sports was at the fore front. An English graduate from Delhi University, Music was still not a professional choice then which led him to pursue Civil Aviation. A Private Pilot License holder from the Delhi Flying Club, Aditya worked several jobs from Freelance Print Journalist to a Copywriter before completing his Post-Graduation in Mass Communication before joining Sahara News Channel as a Reporter/Producer/Anchor. But music was all he wanted to do.  Aditya has played almost a 1000 concerts, recently sharing stage with multi Grammy nominees Hoobastank at their maiden tour to India in Shillong. A Singer-Songwriter, Composer, Music Producer, Aditya is a live-wire on stage. His debut album “7”, released on Universal Music was Sold-Out in stores and is still doing brilliantly digitally on iTunes. Aditya has a unique repertoire ranging from Western Rock/Pop to Hindi Bollywood, Retro & Sufi.  Besides bagging a major music label deal with Universal Music, front man Aditya has been winning many accolades with his previous Rock band Oritus, some of them being, ‘Rock Album of the Year’ at the first ever JD Rock Awards in 2007 and a Reality TV music competitions around the same time ("FAME X" on Sony starring Daler Mehndi, Palash Sen, Nikhil Chinappa/Rannvijay Singh/Cyrus Broacha).  Aditya is a self confessed Grunge & Classic Rock lover. Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi, Alice in Chains, ACDC, Dream Theatre, U2, John Mayer, Maroon 5, OP Nayyar, RD Rehman, AR Rehman, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy are some of his major influences. Having learnt the nuances of Indian Classical music at the Rampur-Sehaswan Gharana from his guru Nadeem Khan, he's equally adroit in Indian classical & Sufi music and that is evident from his personal sound.   His rock band ‘ORITUS’ won accolades and trophies galore including the ‘Album of the Year’ at the first ever JD Indian Rock Awards.