He has written songs about serious topics, such as "Arranged Marriage", "Aids Warning", and "Election Crisis". Lyrically, Apache Indian usually sings in Jamaican Patois. By 2000, Apache had parted ways with Warner he later signed to US management company Sunset Entertainment Group, which would lead later on in 2013 for Apache to collaborate on an album with hit producers Jim Beanz & Charlie Hype (both also signed to Sunset Entertainment Group). Sweden and proved to be his most experimental album, and also featured more Indian elements than the other albums. By 1997 he parted ways with Island and his next album, "Real People" (produced by Harjinder Boparai) was signed and released by Warner Bros. It was followed by Make Way for the Indian (produced by Sly & Robbie, The Press, Mafia & Fluxy, Pandit Dineysh and Chris Lane), which featured rapper Tim Dog and spawned the hit " Boom Shack-A-Lak".
With the collaboration of his cousins Simon & Diamond, he introduced the new hybrid sound of bhangra raggamuffin – also known as bhangramuffin – to the world with his first album No Reservations, recorded in Jamaica and produced by Simon & Diamond, Phil Chill, Robert Livingston, Bobby Digital and Sly Dunbar in 1993. Two further singles followed in a similar vein, "Chok There" and "Don Raja", bringing him to the attention of the major labels, and in 1992 he signed a recording contract with Island Records. The single mixed ragga and bhangra sounds and was hugely popular among audiences of both genres. Apache recorded his first single in 1990, "Movie Over India", initially a white-label pressing, until it was picked up by the reggae distributor Jet Star. By the mid-1980s he had trimmed his hair and began to make a name for himself as a dancehall deejay. He is best known in the UK for the song " Boom Shack-A-Lak", which reached the top ten during August 1993.īorn into a family of Indian origins, Kapur was raised in Handsworth, Birmingham, UK, a racially mixed area with large Black and Asian communities, home of reggae bands such as Steel Pulse, and by the early 1980s he was working with local sound systems and grew dreadlocks.
He had a series of hits during the 1990s. Steven Kapur BEM (born ), known by the stage name Apache Indian, is a British singer-songwriter and reggae DJ.
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