Mayur Jumani is a music producer, composer and digital content creator. He creates unique audio-based content for social media and is known for meme mixes like Jalebi Baby 90’s Edition, Babu Babu, Kesariya Tony Kakkar Edition and Chori Pata Hai. He is the founder of audio production house Ox Media.
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Wiki/Biography
Mayur Jumani was born on Tuesday, 14 April 1992 (age 31 years; as in 2023) in Mumbai. His zodiac sign is Aries. Mayur, fond of music since childhood, started playing piano at the age of 5.
Childhood photo of Peacock playing piano
He studied Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science from Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, University of Mumbai. He started working with Ableton and MIDI controllers in 2012. In 2013, he started working as a User Experience Designer at Directi in Mumbai. Along with his job, he also composed music and performed at small venues to gain experience. He performed his first live concert in 2014. In 2015, he quit his IT job and earned a master’s degree in Music Production, Technology and Innovation from Berklee College of Music, Spain. Talking about his career shift in an interview, he said,
I have been making music and playing instruments like piano since my childhood. Although I was an engineering student, I still enjoyed playing music in my time. I wrote, composed music and performed at local venues while working a full-time job to gain more experience after completing my engineering degree. I had the talent, drive, and ambition to pursue music in the music industry, so many of my friends at the time encouraged me to take music more seriously. I chose to apply to the Berklee Master’s program, and much to my surprise, I was accepted despite the fact that I had no prior formal musical training. That was the turning point for me.”
In 2016, he performed at TEDxBerkleeValenia. After his stint in Europe and the US, the former engineer and UX designer decided to move back to Mumbai from Los Angeles in 2017 and start afresh.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 8″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
Mayur Jumani’s father is a doctor. His mother Manju Jumani works in the field of science. His sister Pooja Jumani is an engineer.
Mayur Jumani with his parents
Mayur Jumani’s mother and sister
Wife
He is unmarried.
Caste
Mayur Jumani was born in a Sindhi family.
An excerpt from Mayur Jumani’s quiz highlight on Instagram in which he talked about his caste
livelihood
After completing his engineering, he started working as a User Experience Designer at Directi in Mumbai in June 2013; He worked there till 2015. He was a Production Graduate Assistant at Berklee College of Music, Spain for a year from August 2015 to July 2016. In July 2016, he began working in the product development department in Calabasas, California; He worked there till June 2017. In early 2017, he performed in Los Angeles with a group called the Hollywood Light Orchestra, which merged electronic music with a live orchestra. In 2017, he returned to Mumbai from the US, where he started teaching at the music school Beatfactory Academy. He was part of the teaching faculty until January 2021 after which he became a full-time composer and producer. After coming back to Mumbai, he also launched a solo project called Inhue, where he collaborates with artists and singers to create cross-genre electronic music that recreates the studio environment on stage.
Mayur Jumani during a concert
Mayur Jumani has a diverse portfolio that ranges from Bollywood to commercials to web series to indie music. In 2019, he released a few songs, ‘Guide’ and ‘Troubled Land’ in the Neil Nitin Mukesh starrer film Bypass Road through T-Series. He has composed music for some of the biggest composers like Vishal Dadlani, Sneha Khanwalkar, Kailash Kher, Shilpa Rao and many other indie artists. He also served as the official music producer for IPML’s Mumbai team. He has composed music for several Bollywood trailers such as Dabangg 3 (2019), Baaghi 3 (2020), Guilty (2020), Gunjan Saxena (2020), Pari (2018), Friends (2018), Fukrey Returns (2017) and Web . Series like Breathe (2018), Hear Me Love Me (2018), Bandish Bandits (2020). Although he had been doing strange remixes and Launchpad videos since 2014, he gained popularity in 2020 for his bizarre music-related social media posts. Amidst the Covid-19 lockdown, he created several viral mashups on social media like Babu Babu, Saffron Tony Kakkar version. Feats like Steal, Know, and Give Me Drugs. Arnab Goswami. His first viral meme mix was an experiment in which he combined Arnab Goswami’s dramatic announcement of banning Chinese apps in India. Talking about this in an interview, he said,
Instead of showcasing my singing skills, I started posting humorous posts on my page. Around the time when TikTok was banned in India and Reels was taking off, I took a dialogue from Arnab Goswami and mixed it with a beat. I thought it would make my less than 2 thousand followers smile. The next day, it was everywhere.
It’s already got over five lakh views on Instagram, so thought I’d upload it here too. Follow on ig for more information: @mayurjumani #RepublicTV #Arnabagoswami #beatmaking pic.twitter.com/Kk4ZYuFvtO
– Mayur Jumani (@mayurjumani) 20 July 2020
Amid the most polarized US elections in 2020, Peacock created a mashup of excerpts from several of Trump’s debates and combined them with parts of his speech to create a video titled “Vivekamund Mix ft Trump.” The video showed the US President’s strange mispronunciation of Hindu spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda.
On public demand, I am uploading it here also!
Watch the HD version at https://t.co/hHTOBFKofX#Trump2020 #vivekmunand #USEllection2020 pic.twitter.com/mggLT3hcmv
– Mayur Jumani (@mayurjumani) 4 November 2020
In 2021, his meme mix Jalebi Baby 90’s version went viral on Instagram. He used Tesher’s hit number ‘Jalebi Baby’ along with the dialogue “Sab gussa karte hain, main ghar chhod ke jaa raha hai” from an old advertisement of Dhara Oil for the meme.
This audio was widely used by dog parents to show their fur babies who, unhappy with the scolding, decide to leave the house. The content of Jumani’s clips has been diverse including dialogues from Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (“Nimbu Paani feat Bapuji”), exaggerated speeches by primetime news anchors, Rakhi Sawant’s Insta rants, etc. Soon, the whole thing became so successful that Peacock took up content creation and music production and composition full-time. In January 2022, he founded audio production house Ox Media.
car collection
In 2023 he bought Hyundai Verna.
I started this journey not knowing where it would take me, but today this dream has finally come true. I bought my first car and the feeling is indescribable. Of course, none of this would be possible without you guys with me.#achievement #Hyundai #mayurjumani pic.twitter.com/YtjkrMKl61
– Mayur Jumani (@mayurjumani) 15 April 2023
Favorite
- Book: Startalk by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Facts/General Knowledge
- He is interested in the field of astrophysics. Talking about this in an interview, he said,
I’m curious about astrophysics and the space-time continuum. Yes, my career is music and my hobby is astrophysics. “I’m so weird that way.”
- In November 2020, Mayur Jumani was awarded the title of Hindustan Times Brunch Social Media Star of the Week for his clip titled “Vivekmunand Mix ft Trump.”
Certificate for Mayur Jumani’s Hindustan Times Brunch Social Media Star of the Week Clip Vivekmunand Mix feat Trump
- In 2021, he received YouTube’s Silver Play Button for surpassing 100,000 subscribers.
Mayur Jumani posing with his silver play button
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