Eshraque Mughal, better known as iSHi, was born on February 12,1981 and hails from Stockholm, Sweden. His career started in high school when he began playing piano and drums; piano he started at the age of 15 and drums when he was 11. Growing up, he listened to hip-hop, R&B, and dance-pop. In 2009, he signed singer Eric Turner to his label, 2Stripes Music, and later that same year he met British rapper, Tinie Tempah. Tinie had just started work on his album Disc-Overy, and flew to Sweden to work with iSHi.
Their very first song together was “Written In The Stars”, featuring Eric Turner. The song even went on to become a worldwide hit, selling platinum in multiple countries including the United States. iSHi also produced Tinie Tempah's 2013 single "Children Of The Sun" featuring John Martin and the Demonstration album track "Someday (Place in the Sun)".
iSHi has worked with artists such as Usher, Ne-Yo, Shakira, Lupe Fiasco, John Martin, Cheryl Cole, Avicii, Sebastian Ingrosso, Alexandra Burke, Emeli Sandé, Ella Eyre, Professor Green, Tinie Tempah and Wretch 32 among others.
By Devon Pyne for RAPstation.com
iSHi: The RAPstation Artist Spotlight
Eshraque Mughal, better known as iSHi, was born on February 12,1981 and hails from Stockholm, Sweden. His career started in high school when he began playing piano and drums; piano he started at the age of 15 and drums when he was 11. Growing up, he listened to hip-hop, R&B, and dance-pop. In 2009, he signed singer Eric Turner to his label, 2Stripes Music, and later that same year he met British rapper, Tinie Tempah. Tinie had just started work on his album Disc-Overy, and flew to Sweden to work with iSHi.
Their very first song together was “Written In The Stars”, featuring Eric Turner. The song even went on to become a worldwide hit, selling platinum in multiple countries including the United States. iSHi also produced Tinie Tempah's 2013 single "Children Of The Sun" featuring John Martin and the Demonstration album track "Someday (Place in the Sun)".
iSHi has worked with artists such as Usher, Ne-Yo, Shakira, Lupe Fiasco, John Martin, Cheryl Cole, Avicii, Sebastian Ingrosso, Alexandra Burke, Emeli Sandé, Ella Eyre, Professor Green, Tinie Tempah and Wretch 32 among others.
By Devon Pyne for RAPstation.com
