Prateek Kuhad, Indian indie singer brought to you by - Barack Obama

At the end of last year, Indian indie singer-songwriter Prateek Kuhad was playing to an audience of 9,000 at an outdoor concert in Delhi's Garden Of Five Senses, capping off a huge, 30-date tour of India, but he wasn't really popular outside his home country. But, then, a stroke of luck happened - Barack Obama put Kuhad's song 'Cold/Mess' on his annual list of favourite music, and immediately the attention grew. US label Elektra Records will re-release the 'Cold/Mess' EP this winter - "to lay the groundwork for the next album that's coming out". He's conquered a billion people by now, there's six billion more left... BBC reports on the pretty story.