CHAMBALGUY

Some people find music. Somanshu Agarwal refused to let it go.

Growing up in Gwalior - a city so deeply musical it gave the world Tansen - Somanshu never had formal training, never had his own guitar. He borrowed one from a friend during his B.Tech, learned from YouTube between lectures in a hostel room, and quietly fell in love with the idea that honest music could say what nothing else could.

He recorded his first song Raat in 2015, walking into a studio for the very first time. He was working as a software developer in Pune then, chasing a band, chasing a sound, chasing something he couldn't quite name. A few years later he made the hardest decision of his life - he quit his job to pursue music full time. It didn't work out. The world didn't stop. He picked himself up, got an MBA from IMT Nagpur, rebuilt his career, and came back to Pune but this time as a product manager.

And still, somehow, he kept writing songs.

That's what Chambalguy is. Not a persona. Not a project. A person who has seen heartbreaks, failures, and the kind of silence that follows when things fall apart - and chose, every single time, to move forward anyway. His music is cryptic but honest, raw but intentional, quiet but never defeated. Indie folk, acoustic, and rock that sounds like it was made by someone who has actually lived.

His album Ufaan (2025) and EP yaqeen (2023, featured by Rock Street Journal) are his most complete work. A decade in the making. No filters.

Start with Chalein. It says everything about who he is and why he never stopped.