Biography
Abi Angelos also known as Abhishek karokar / Vinit Srivastav is an Indian Artist/Performer, Gold medalist Rifle Shooters (State level, Maharashtra), chess player (State level, Maharashtra), who was born in Odisha, Rourkela (INDIA) on 5th of February.
Abi is better known for his artistic work in the field of music and sketch art, the title of an artist was given to him at an early age by the state news industry of Odisha when he was 3-4 years old kindergarten-2 student of the ICSE Board Indo English school.
From "The Youngest Sketch Artist" to "The Youngest Indian International Artist"
Abi Angelos was a kg2 kid who got recognized by his school principal (Mrs. Manju Mukherjee) as an artist after winning the 1st position in a drawing competition organized by his school.
Abi used to doodle Dark reality, Childhood trauma, Nature, fictional cartoon, God faces, etc. Later his art was distributed to the local art exhibition by his school in the name of Abhishek Srivastav where his art got local media coverage on news channels/papers claiming him for being the "Youngest sketch artist of the town" at the age of 4, soon he got the title of the "Youngest fine art artist of the state" at the age of 5. Abi Angelos learned Western Dance, and Western Music during his school days by participating in the annual functions of the school every year, he was also a good Mathematics student who used to score above 90% in an ICSE Board school.
At the age of 7, he moved to the state of Maharashtra with his mom (Mrs. Babita karokar) and stepdad (Mr. Dilip Karokar), where he started learning music. He continued his schooling in the Ira International school (Butibori, Nagpur), and later on at Royal Gondwana Public School (Khapri, Nagpur). Abi made his name in multiple Maharashtra newspapers for achieving various certificates/gold Medals in Rifle Shooting, Sketch art, Chess, Spelling bee competition, and Singing Competition from school when he was in 8th schooling grade.
When he was 11, RJ Milind the owner of "Bird school of arts (Nagpur) and a RadioCity host" signed Abi Angelos for a Hip-Hop dance, and music performance at Sai Sabhagruha hall, Shankar Nagar, Nagpur - 440010 (Behind Wockhardt Hospital Shankar Nagar) where he got his first appearance on UCN news T.V channel of Maharashtra state where he got his genuine 1000 fan base on his Twitter and Facebook page.
In 2014 Abi continued performing Pop Music at local gigs, college, Pubs, and malls with his colleagues (Uproar/Preet), Pragati. Later he decided to create a YouTube channel of Music covers for his hundreds of fans in 2015 where he got near 1000 fans, but soon the channel got banned for copyright issues, he created another YouTube page in 2016 which got 1000 fans rushing on his music page, Abi Angelos released covers and originals on his own style from his bedroom which got him over 200,000 overall streams on YouTube, his cover faded went viral on "Who sang it better" YouTube channel with over 1,000,000 plays, he said "I was a confident singer, I got a condenser microphone as a gift, but never used any condenser mic before like a playback singer, I've always performed live with a live singing mic but this condenser mic got me nervous", therefore he put his very first cover title on YouTube as "When a beginner covers faded" where he got thousands of viewers loving and commenting on his talent.
He continued putting covers, later on, he got partnered with a music company "Dark Soul Records In" with its publisher "Dot Records" the network of Universal Music Group in 2019, after releasing his 3rd original Progressive Rock single "Falling Around" on SoundCloud.
Abi never looked back since then, he released Woh Ajnabee which got 300,000 total streams on the digital platforms including Prime music (200,000 ), YouTube (16,000 ), Spotify (6,000 ), etc.
His latest Music video "Take My Pain Away" got certified on Aug 3, 2021, which got its first appearance on Xite T.V, Vh1 (UK), Vh1 (USA), Apple music videos, etc., which made him the youngest artist from India who's aired internationally on Vh1 music T.V channel in 2022.
