NAV Artist Bio

Navraj Singh Goraya was born on November 3, 1989, in Toronto, Ontario and was raised in the city’s suburban Rexdale neighbourhood. He is of Punjabi descent; his parents are Sikhs originally from the northern state of Punjab in India. His mother was involved in computer manufacturing and his father operated a forklift. Goraya first became interested in music after his mother bought him a boombox in the third grade. His uncle, who was a popular singer in Punjab, also brought him to a studio.[6] He began making mash-ups in high school and producing beats for local underground Toronto artists and became popular on SoundCloud. Goraya first started producing using Sony’s ACID Pro software. Nav attended Thistletown Collegiate Institute for his high school education and had to spend an additional year to graduate. While live streaming Fortnite with DJ Akademiks, Nav talked about how he had gotten into many fights during high school and would frequently be suspended Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.