Radhika Das

Updated: September 22, 2026

Birth Name: Ravi
Origin: London, United Kingdom
Gender: Male
Religion: Hinduism (Bhakti / Vaishnava tradition)
Nationality: British
Occupation: Kirtan artist, bhakti yoga teacher, author, podcast host
Genres: Kirtan, mantra music, devotional

Biography & Career:
Radhika Das is a London-born kirtan artist and bhakti yoga teacher who has taken one of the oldest devotional practices in the world and made it feel completely current. No robes, no shaved head, no incense-heavy mysticism: just mantras, a harmonium, a band and a room full of people singing together. The nationality is British, the tradition is Indian, and the audience is a mix of both and neither, which is exactly the point.

The name came later. The real name is Ravi; Radhika Das was given by his spiritual teacher and means one who serves Radha, and the artist is happy to laugh about the fact that a traditionally female name now sits on posters across Europe. Growing up, devotion was background noise rather than vocation. His parents raised him in East London, and his mother would play the Hanuman Chalisa on the drive to school, something he met with polite teenage indifference at the time. Little is shared publicly about his father or the wider family, and that reticence is deliberate.

Curiosity in his late teens led him to a community of monks practising bhakti yoga, and their chanting, their calm and their willingness to argue philosophy pulled him in. University talks he organised drew seventy-five people, then a hundred and fifty, week after week for three years. The first proper kirtan was rather less triumphant: a small East London studio, cushions laid out, a full band, and a single audience member who quietly left partway through. More than a decade later the same practice fills Union Chapel, the British Museum and rooms across Europe, India and the Gulf, backed by more than a million followers online and a best-selling book on mantra meditation.

The music itself is simple by design. Mantras repeat and build, tempos rise, and the room does most of the work; a Radhika Das concert often ends in dancing and, quite frequently, in tears that have nothing to do with sadness. Alongside the live events there is a podcast, online courses, and a growing programme of retreat weeks in places like the Tuscan hills, where the chanting sits alongside teaching, meditation and long, unhurried days.

Touring has scaled steadily rather than explosively. The current world tour takes in Sweden, Norway, the UK and further afield, with a headline night at Hammersmith Apollo in London and a date at Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, and new upcoming events are added to the calendar through his own site and socials. On the personal side, very little is public: he is married, though his wife has never been named publicly, and he has spoken only in passing about the heartbreak early in that relationship that first pushed him towards singing his way through difficult feelings.

Radhika Das Albums:
Living Names

Radhika Das Best Songs:
Radhe Govinda
Hare Krishna
Om Namo Narayanaya
Govinda Hari, Gopala Hari
Hari Haraye