Dee MC is an Indian rapper, singer, songwriter and hip-hop artist. She represented India at the 2017 Alchemy Festival in the UK, the 2018 La Belle Hip Hop Festival in Belgium and the 2019 DesiFest in Canada. She made a cameo appearance in the 2019 Bollywood film Gully Boy.
Wiki/Biography
Dee MC was born Deepa Unnikrishnan (28 years old; as of 2022) in Mumbai on Monday, February 14, 1994. Her zodiac sign is Aquarius. She attended Lokkayan Public School in Kalyan, Maharashtra, where she participated in poetry writing, speech and debate competitions.
Childhood photos of Deepa and her sister
At the age of 5, she started learning Bharatanatyam. When she was in sixth grade, she started listening to hip-hop music. Her parents wanted her to pursue chartered accounting and find a respectable job. She revealed in an interview that she appeared for the CA entrance exam twice; however, she was not eligible to appear for the exam. In an interview, she spoke about her failure in CA exams and said:
I told them that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India intentionally deducts a few marks from students. Very depressing. I failed two and three points. My parents didn’t want to understand that it couldn’t always be my fault. ”
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′2″
Weight (approximately): 45kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Dee MC belongs to a Malayali family in Mumbai.
Parents and siblings
Her father, Unnikrishnan Pisharody, works in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He is an NRI, born in Kerala but brought up in Mumbai. Her mother Jayasree is a housewife. She has a sister named Divya.
Deepa with her parents and sister Divya
Relationships/Affairs
In an interview, when she was asked if she had tried online dating, she talked about her long-term relationships and said:
I’ve been in a relationship the longest so I haven’t used it personally yet, but I know people around me, my friends and family, who have used it and have had some amazing relationships through online dating , but I personally haven’t used it yet. But maybe, never say never. ”
Profession
rapper
At the age of 18, she wrote her first song during her freshman year of college. In 2011, she uploaded a cover video of Nicki Minaj’s song; someone responded to her after watching her cover video, suggesting that if she was serious about rapping, she should leave Kalyan and get in touch with Mumbai’s hip-hop scene.
Dee MC performs at an event during the early years of her rap career
singles
She made her debut on October 30, 2013 with the song “Talk My Way”, which was the first video posted on her YouTube channel. One year later, on October 30, 2014, she released her second single “Greenhouse Effect”. In the same year, she released the song “Kal”, in which she rapped in Hindi and English. She composed the song “Chaar Logo Ki Baatein” in 2015. In 2017, Deepa rapped on the song “Taking My Time” produced by Kru172. In 2021, Dee MC released the song “PRETTY EYES”, which received more than 400,000 views on YouTube in one year. She released the song “Haath Hi Mera Saathi” in 2022, which was composed, conceived and performed by her.
Poster of the song “Haath Hi Mera Saathi”
album
In 2019, she released her debut album “Dee=MC2”. The album contains seven tracks and features artists including MC Altaf, D’Evil, Poetik Justis and more. The entire album is produced by Sunit Music.
Dee MC’s first album “DEE=MC2” cover
cooperate
In 2018, she released the song “DEKH”, a collaboration with Yungsta and Seedhe Maut. In 2019, she wrote and performed the song “AADATEIN”, a single from Aakash Ravikrishnan’s album Overseas. In 2020, she released the song “REWIND”, a collaboration with rapper group Full Power. On June 21, 2021, Raja Kumari launched the song “Rani Cypher” on her YouTube channel; the song was sung by three other female rappers, including SIRI, Meba Ofilia and Dee MC; the music video is on YouTube has been viewed more than 2 million times. In 2022, Dee MC, Wild Wild Women and Instine teamed up to release the song “Doing OK.”
Poster for the 2022 song “Doing OK”
Awards
- In the third Shorty Social Welfare Award in 2018, he won the Shorty Award for “No More Limits”
- ‘Tu Bas Naach’ wins the Jury Choice Award for Best Electronics at the 6th Radio City Freedom India Awards 2019
- “Tu Bas Naach” won the Best Independent Collaboration – Jury’s Choice Award at the 6th Radio City Freedom India Awards 2019
2019 Dee MC Wins Freedom Award Pictures
Favorites
- Rapper: Nicki Minaj, Mike Shinoda, Jay Z, Eminem, D’Evil, Poetik Justis, Encore, Divine
car collection
Deepa purchased a Renault KWID in July 2021.
Deepa and her car Renault KWID
Facts/Trivia
- Earlier, she gave her stage name as “Aura” but later, she changed it to Dee MC, where Dee stands for her name Deepa and MC stands for Microphone Controller.
- According to Dee MC, during her first few years of rapping, her parents were skeptical about her attending rap events at night.
- On October 31, 2018, she released a song, “No More Limits,” in collaboration with the non-profit organization WASH United to spread awareness about intimate hygiene on Menstrual Hygiene Day.
- In 2020, the makeup brand Glow & Lovely collaborated with Dee MC to release the song “Glow Ko Na Roko” to encourage women to chase their dreams and break social stereotypes.
- Dee MC appears in the music video for the song “Swipe Right Material” along with Guru Randhawa and Anirudh. The song was produced in collaboration with online dating app Tinder.
- She served as one of the judges for Red Bull Spotlight, a national competition for aspiring rappers.
- According to Dee MC, she has never received professional rap training and learned everything by herself through the Internet. She said in an interview,
Since my father worked abroad (Saudi Arabia), I was one of those lucky teenagers who had the internet early on. When I was in sixth grade, I would download music from the internet; some of those sites don’t even exist now. ”
- At the age of 17, she began learning B-boying, an American hip-hop style of sport.
- In an interview, she revealed that she failed the CA qualifying exam twice. She blamed the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and tried to convince her parents that it was not her fault that she failed twice. she says,
- She revealed in an interview that from 2014 to 2016, she made money by writing part-time on various websites. she says,
For this job, I would travel from Kalyan to Grant Road (south Mumbai). Kayan is very far away, you know? I hate it. Then I have to write about how much money a Hollywood or Malayalam movie makes. This is not exciting at all. I just do it for the money. ”
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