An all Round Free Thinking and Acting Individual, who uses words and music to convey and portray his view of what he feels, see's and experiences in this journey/path we call 'Life'
By combining traditional poetry alongside lyricism, he creates pieces of art, which are both versatile and unique yet clearly differentiate themselves and escape the typical categorisation into any specific genre or style of music or sound.
Having two alias names, he concentrates on music with one name (Lion Rai) and traditional means of poetry and literature with the other name (Saffron Poet.) This helps him to clearly target his audience regarding the two similar but different art forms and allows likeminded individuals to make the choice of looking deeper into what Lion Rai or Saffron Poet has to offer the world of creativity.
He has just completed a Poetry Book available online and soon to be in print, which is funded by himself and is subjected on the Sikh festival of ‘Vaisakhi.’ Explaining what the festival is and can help western born youth and also members of all worldwide faiths, understand Sikhism a bit deeper, so we can all appreciate and interact with each others faiths and ways of life effectively.
Also a graduate Creative Designer, he combines all of his creativity to create works of art, which like-minded audiences can appreciate, and share a smile to.
On his journey of creativity, he has entered and been successful on many lyricist and literature based competitions, including ‘Westwords Asian Lyrics Live’ and just recently won a mentoring scheme competition called ‘Flight’ held by the well known London ‘Spread The Word’ literature development association.
He also partakes in various mix audience poetry and open mic events and has previously been guest invited to speak at The Main London Events of:
‘Love Poetry Hate Racism’ held at Whitechapel and
‘The London Anti-Gun Crime Event’ held at Kings Cross earlier this year.
Being an active member of the online community of ‘myspace.com’ he has made some great friends all over the world, and by reading the comments you can see clearly how people have reacted to his words, sound and whole feel/vibe.
www.myspace.com/lionrai
www.myspace.com/saffronpoet ..
