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= Captive (rapper) = Sumit Prakash Kataria (Born April 1st 1992) aka Captive is a rapper and songwriter. In past few years,Captive has projected from being a Karaoke performer to the prime mover of “Sabali The Band”.Just two years and his band has their art with the Zee Music Company.

Early Life
Captive was brought up in Pune, a Good Samaritan School student and a graduate from Indira College .A National level snooker player was lured in to learning guitar after the release of 'Rock On' back in 2008. Mike Shinoda, Eminem, 2 Pac and G-EAZY were his everyday loop. Influenced by the high rolling rap, he was looking forward to have a band with his best friend Ganesh. It was still in the talks ,but the busy days kept them away from its inception. But after the sad demise of Ganesh, Captive was badly dragged down.Depressed for months,he gave back the plans he sought with his best friend. But he couldn’t keep himself away from music ,so he landed onto clubs on Karaoke nights.Too shy to perform, he would just sit back and watch others sing.After days of hoarding some guts,he performed Eminem's ‘When I'm gone' and the crowd was flipped out.Now he knew that he wasn't built for the last row of the club,but for the stage to perform!

Rise to Success
In 2015 ,Captive started his career as a Rapper. Fast forward in 2016, he met Shubham Divakar who was performing at a fashion event.Due to their instant connect ,Captive's dream of having a band came back to life again. In 2017,his day dream 'Sabali the band' (Sabali, an African phrase from Damien Marley’s song meaning Patience) was forged into reality with Shubham Divakar and Tejandra Badbade. From their first show at Sin Envy Pride, Pune the band hasn’t looked back.The band’s journey from one show every month in Pune to twenty shows each month across the country is nothing but spectacular. Performing covers fused with Rap art is their rare factor.In 2017,Captive started writing songs.His first collaboration ‘Aukha Time' with T-Jay was released by ZEE Music Company .In 2019,Captive was talked about after the release of his big hit ‘Launda Bada Sakht Hai' with Kryso ,around again labelled by ZEE Music Company. Because of its acoustic fused Hip Hop style Sabali is a band of its own kind. Times of India awarded Sabali The Band as the Most Iconic Band of the year 2019.He has shared stage with Divine, Raja Kumari, Hardy Sandhu, Mohit Chauhan, Nikhil D’souza and many more. Now officially managed by Kreative Keeda, Captive from a local Hip Hop patch is becoming a national Hip Hop pulse.

Refrence Links
http://starsstack.in/Captive(Sumit-Kataria)