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Bohemia (musician)
Roger David (born 15 October 1979), better known by his stage names Bohemia (stylised BOHEMIA) or Raja is a Pakistani American rapper, song writer and music producer from California regarded as the first ever Desi Hip Hop artist, releasing his first Punjabi rap album in 2002.
== Early life ==
Bohemia was born on 15 October 1979 in Karachi, Sindh〔 〕 into an ethnic Punjabi, Christian family. He also has a bible and a guru granth sahib at his home, as one of his fore fathers was Sikh at one point . His father was an employee at Pakistan International Airline. The family were transferred to Lahore, where he spent his childhood, followed by seven years in Peshawar. While he was in his early teens his family moved to the United States, settling in San Francisco's Mission District.
Bohemia started learning music from his father, and writing Punjabi poetry around that time.〔 He occasionally played keyboards at local Desi events. He wrote songs and poetry, mostly in Urdu and Punjabi. His mother died of cancer〔 when he was 16 years old. At the same time he got a job at a recording studio in Sacramento. He dropped out of school and left his family to become a full-time musician. Along with a group of other musicians, he toured and playing gigs in the US and Canada, sleeping in cars and on recording studio floors.
He moved to join his cousin in Oakland, who was working at a West Oakland recording studio, and introduced him to a young hip hop producer called Sha One. Sha heard Bohemia reciting something he had written in Punjabi, and asked him to rap it over one of his beats. Over the next few months, Bohemia wrote the lyrics for his debut album ''Vich Pardesan De'' (In The Foreign Land) – an autobiographical story of his life as a Desi youngster adapting to life in the US. This album was a new genre of music which is today known as Desi Hip hop. Bohemia claims to be inspired by the poets Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mirza Ghalib and Allama Iqbal. He said in an interview, "People like Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mirza Ghalib are our icons and most of my poetry is inspired by them.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Radio 1 – Nihal, Tabla Soul Session with Swaati, Bohemia talks with Nihal )〕 For instance, in one of my songs, I talk about 'going beyond the stars', the idea of which is essentially taken from Allama Iqbal's 'Sitaron Se Aagay Jahan Aur Bhi Hain'."〔
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