Sahaj Ticotin

Biography

Daniel "Sahaj" Ticotin (born April 5, 1969), is a Puerto Rican - Russian American musician and record producer, and the vocalist/guitarist/producer from the Rock band Ra. Sahaj was born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Russian-Jewish father. During a pilgrimage to India in 1992, he learned more of the Egyptian Sun God, Ra, which became the name of his band. Sahaj held the record for longest single note, for a male vocalist, in a song, having held a high B for 24 seconds. He was overtaken by Jan W...

Daniel "Sahaj" Ticotin (born April 5, 1969), is a Puerto Rican - Russian American musician and record producer, and the vocalist/guitarist/producer from the Rock band Ra. Sahaj was born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Russian-Jewish father. During a pilgrimage to India in 1992, he learned more of the Egyptian Sun God, Ra, which became the name of his band.

Sahaj held the record for longest single note, for a male vocalist, in a song, having held a high B for 24 seconds. He was overtaken by Jan Werner Danielsen of Norway with 28 seconds in his live version of Nella Fantasia. This record breaker can be heard on Ra's live album, Raw, on the track "Skorn". Sahaj Ticotin overtook the previous record of 20.2 seconds which was held by Morten Harket, the lead singer of a-ha, in the song, "Summer Moved On."

He is the brother of motion picture and television actress Rachel Ticotin.

He has produced Downstait under his own company, Sahaja Music Records.

Getting ready to release his solo album, "Sahaj - Another Minute", in 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.