Sabin Rai is a true Piscean who celebrates his birthday on 5 February. The dashing singer was born in Dharan and spent most of his childhood there. He prefers to live there with his wife and two daughters. He says, it’s much more peaceful and beautiful place to live in than Katmandu. He named his daughter
Tiamo as he found this word really beautiful and romantic. It means
“I Love You” in Italian. The great singer Sabin Rai is a very private person and hence maintains a low profile who loves to spend quality time with his wife and two daughters. Besides that he is very cheerful and committed to whatever he does in life. The tattoo on his right arm was made by a tattoo enthusiast who is a plumber by profession with a homemade tattoo machine. He says, he was so moved by the passion the artist had for the art. He loves to watch television but doesn’t fancy watching movies. His favorite show is “
The Jerry Springer Show” which unfortunately isn’t telecasted here. Other than that he watches a lot of Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. He likes to listen all kind of songs except a heavy metal. Narayan Gopal, Arun Thapa, Bryan Adams and Rod steward are some of his favourite singers. He loved Chinese food. Black and White are his favorite colours. He is not brand conscious while choosing for clothes.
He always knew that he wanted to become a singer so he gave up his studies after grade 12 to pursue his dream and to give it all his focus. He doesn’t have any formal training in music but everything his knows is self taught through pure dedication and love for music. After being rejected from more than two studios, he finally got a chance to record his first song “
Timro Maya” with Bishal Studios in 1993.
