Daniel Weber performs as a part of his Consider India Tour in Mumbai in March 2025. Photograph: Quriosity
Mumbai-based American rock artist Daniel Weber has spent a number of years attempting to determine what works for his music within the U.S. and India, as a part of exhausting rock band The Disparrows and as a solo artist as effectively, backed by an area collective of musicians known as The Mumbai Vocal. “It’s a sluggish and regular course of, and it’s been nice” he says.
Most lately, he teamed up with arts and tradition firm Quriosity to carve a deeper path into India’s membership touring circuit, with a six-city run of exhibits that began on Mar. 21 in Mumbai and ends this week, in Bengaluru (Mar. 29) and Hyderabad (Mar. 30).
With earlier stops in New Delhi, Gurugram and Pune on the Consider India Tour, Weber considers the West and India’s tour circuit to be “very related” at this level. “As it’s within the west, you do membership excursions and also you construct an viewers slowly, one particular person at a time. I’ve toured by means of Europe. Uh, and I’ve toured the US for 20 years and it’s the identical actual factor,” he says.
There’s a tough rock, blues and different fashion to Weber’s music, as heard on his new album Consider. Songs like “Reminiscences” and “Lose Any individual” have taken off on streaming, changing into the breakout tracks from the album. On floor, Weber says the exhibits have been packed and the “crowds have been superb.” He’s been taking part in songs off Consider in addition to materials written over the span of the final two years, plus a handful of covers.
By his personal admission, one of many larger attracts for folks in India to return to his exhibits is his having actor/mannequin Sunny Leone (his spouse) promote them. She was on the Mumbai present, in fact and Weber considers it a “an added bonus” that Leone’s followers get to learn about his music by means of her. “It’s simply one other nice benefit I’ve over different folks,” he provides.
Weber nonetheless insists that folks have discovered his music by means of a number of different methods, however is grateful {that a} suggestion from Leone makes all of the distinction. “It’s one other approach to attract within the viewers and get them to take a look at the music,” he provides. He’s real looking about whether or not or not it is going to result in a fanbase. “In the event that they just like the music, they’ll come again and so they’ll pay attention. In the event that they don’t just like the music, they received’t come again,” Weber provides.
After wrapping up his membership tour, Weber guarantees extra exhibits in April and Could in North India, and can later hit a number of festivals. There are additionally “plenty of nice collaborations” developing, however nothing Weber can reveal simply but. “However they are going to be big,” he provides.
Hearken to Daniel Weber’s album ‘Consider’ under.
