School: Growing up all over the world.
Washington DC, Cairo Egypt, Houston, Texas. 1979 to 1997
Kabir Singh’s parents were Indian diplomats, and growing up with them, he ended up going to school in the most geographically unconnected places. From Haycock Elementary School, in Falls Church, Virginia, Washington, USA, to the Army Public School, New Delhi, India, to the British International School in Cairo, Egypt, and finally graduating from Bellaire High School, Houston, Texas, he came back to India to go to college. His parents wisely told him that if he had not done that, he would never have had any friends in the country that he came from and they were so right!
College: Gigs as a DJ, Voice Overs, Sound Designing for Theatre, and Teaching at University.
New Delhi, India. 1997 to 2006
Kabir graduated in the year 2000 with a B.A. (Hons.) degree in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.
Then he went on to get a master’s degree in 2002 in Mass Communications from the A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre (M.C.R.C.) at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.
After studying communication, he realised he loved sound the most and moved to Bombay for a diploma in Audio Engineering in 2006 from the School of Audio Engineering (SAE), Mumbai.
He spent time in college in Delhi as a DJ at a neighbourhood pub called the Mezz, playing rock, old-school hip hop, and psy trance three nights a week.
He also worked during college as a sound designer, creating sound effects, arranging background music scores, and engineering live performances for professional theater productions.
International Theater
London, Colombia, Mexico, Singapore, Prague, Lahore, South Korea, Germany. 1997 to 2006
The bigger productions he worked on have been performed the world over at international theatre festivals and private shows at the ICA in London, the Iberoamericano Festival in Colombia, private shows in Mexico, and at the Esplanade in Singapore. The team also performed at the Rafi Peer Theatre Festival in Lahore, Pakistan, the Prague Quadrennial, the Hangmadan Festival in Seoul, South Korea, and at the Bonn Biennale in Germany.
Voice Overs
2000 to Present Day
Kabir found a fun side career as a voice-over artist in 2000 and has been recording professional voice-overs for TV Ads, e-learning modules, explainer videos, corporate videos, and documentaries.
Teaching Sound Design
For a year, he taught a course titled “The Aesthetics of Sound Design” to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Rai University, New Delhi, in 2004.
Sound Design for Feature Films and the Video Production Business
Mumbai, India. 2005 to 2013
Soon after moving to Mumbai, Kabir set up his first two companies in 2009, Sound Design Solutions and Kabir Singh Productions.
He spent 8 years producing varied communication content in the form of videos, voice-overs, and sound, which included producing a national award-winning short film and sound design for feature films for award-winning directors like Prakash Jha and Sudhir Mishra.
The Agency and Consulting Business
New Delhi, India. 2013 - Present Day
After spending almost a decade in Bombay, it was time for a change, and Kabir moved back to Delhi and founded the KS Collective. The agency offered branding, strategic storytelling, graphic design, websites, digital marketing, content writing, and events.
While working with his agency clients, he also spun off Kabir Singh Consulting, where he would come on board as a consultant to help brands strategise their communication and marketing and help startup businesses with their business model and get their branding ‘house in order.’
Goa Holiday Homes Rentals
Goa, India. 2017 - Present Day
In 2017, Kabir moved to Goa with his beautiful German wife Isabelle and set up Kabella Residencies. They have three apartments in Vagator, and Siolim North Goa, for rental on Airbnb as holiday homes for people who visit Goa on vacation.
Kabir lives a multi-city life shuttling between Goa, New Delhi, and Mumbai for work. When he is not working, he loves going to music festivals and spending time on the beach.