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Steel Banglez is a British record producer and musician of Indian Punjabi descent. Indo-British producer Steel Banglez aka Pahuldeep Singh Sandhu grew up listening to the sounds of India in London’s Newham borough. His mother, an Indian classical music teacher, used to sing to the accompaniment of harmonium, tabla, and tumbi at gatherings of the Bangalees and his two elder brothers.

The constant stream of 90s Bollywood movies and radio shows piqued the interest of young Bangladeshis in music. Then his older brothers started DJing at local clubs including Bugle and Legends, and the rest was history. Banglaze didn’t know it then, but he was also set to become one of the most prolific and synonymous sounds to come out of East London.

It was at the source of his musical incubation that the Newham native first began experimenting with production. He majored in music classes, and his teacher seeing potential in the lanky and hyper teen installed Cubase, a digital audio workstation, on his computer. Bangla hit the keyboard and started making beats. “he really inspired me to become a music producer when I was around 12, or 13 years old. It was really an advance for me too, and you know,” he says.

Bangladeshis were enterprising. By the age of 14, his tunes had found themselves on the tracks of rising local legends now in the UK. There are big names in grime music. He produced D Double E’s “Colors” (even shadowing the MC) and grime artist Big H’s “Freestyle” from Practice Hours 2 (2006). The work had gathered momentum and was not going to rest anytime soon. But luckily it had other plans.