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Ash:The Band is a Indian alternative rock band, formed in Ranchi in 2012 by the budding Indian Singer, Songwriter & Music Composer Arman Ali along with his college friends Anurag Singh who was on guitars and drummer Vivek Kacchap.

History
Ash was officially formed in 2012 in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. It was Ali's college days where he started performing at several functions of his college such as Annual day celebration or College Fest, According to an Interview with DB Group Ali stated that he met ‘’Anurag’’ in a college function held during the Annual day celebration later who became the lead guitarist of the band, and they both started jamming together and composing for their future projects. Later on while performing at a local funtion in Ranchi, Ali met ‘’Vivek’’ who was a bassist and they all team up together and this led them to perform at various Restaurants in Ranchi. After a period of time they all decided to form a band and ‘’Ali came up with the name of the band and he named it ’’"ASH: The Band" which means the soft grey or black powder that is left after a substance of something.

Formation
Arman formed the band which was spurred on by his friends and they began to sing in public during his days in college and recorded some songs and after few months Arman started composing for his team as they were planning to launch their band’s debut song Suna Jahaan which was written and composed by Arman Ali and they admiring to enter in Music Industry with their debut song.

Disintegration
It was June 2014 when all the members of the band were busy for their project but ASH’S lead GUITARIST Anurag Singh left the band for pursuing his further studies since he has to shift to DELHI for his graduation, And after few months other members of the band also started moving to some other cities for their personal issues and the completion of their further studies and during those days the band got split up, yet Ali didn't lose his hope and continued with his own music and compositions.

Band members

 * Arman Ali – lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards, programming (2012–present)
 * Anurag Singh – bass, (2012–present)
 * Vivek Kachhap – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2012–present)

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * Ashes (2012)
 * Aaghaaz (2013)