Kabeer Kathpalia, who is widely known as OAFF, began his music journey in a punk-rock band in his high school in the western Indian city Ahmedabad. Today, his song “Doobey” is a chart-topping earworm, with more than 55 million views on YouTube and over six million streams on Spotify.
But the 32-year-old says that he never saw this coming. Despite performing uncountable jamming sessions with his music partner Savera, Kathpalia didn’t expect to find his true calling in the industry. “Because of [our band in school], I slowly got interested in music and music theory,” the composer tells me. “If I wasn’t into music, I’d be doing something related to maths or science.”
