Nima in the middle with his brothers Pasang & Karma
Didn't really thought that I'd become a popstar someday. When I was in school, I used to be a very good painter/artist. I used to draw lots of pictures and paint them and give it away to friends.
I think a lot of my childhood and school mates still have them as my gift. So I used to think that I'll become a very famous artist one day but for my own surprise I became a pop star. I had a deep passion in music & dance since I was very young but I never realized that until I was out of school after SLC. During that break after SLC I had a chance to meet my big brother Namgel's friend Rabi, Saroj, Bire, they were in music and they usually gathered and jammed together. So I joined them and learned quite a lot how to sing and play guitar from them. And pretty soon I became their vocalist. We named the band 'The Bass'. We worked very hard, did all the local stage concerts everywhere, college, campus... I spent about 3-4 yeas with the band but even with our hard work and all we couldn't do any better. There were so many things frustrating us. Lack of money... and there were no media. We couldn't make any records together, no one really helped us. So, slowly we fell apart and by the end of one day I met one of my local guy Jyoti Ratna Bajracharya and he asked me to join he and his friends and form a band. So I joined them and we named the band "The Peace" so I was vocalist and Jyoti on drum Puru on Bass and Dipesh on Lead Guitar and Sailendra on Rythm Guitar. We composed our first song "Aai Deu Priya" and recorded it in 'Sanga Recording Studio' It was our first time in studio and we all were very nervous. We did couple of takes and it was ok.
After a while we had a chance to participate in Rara Nepali Pop music Competition 1992 and luckily we won in 2nd place. With the same song "Aai Deu Priya" in the same day in concert Hall we met Mr. Anil Sthapit and Him dai from Harati Cassette Centre and they wanted our song to include in a pop song collection 'Talent-1' 1992. After a while it released with our song "Aai Deu Priya" and it went real hit and soon we began to receive fan mails and concert invitations. That was amazing for the beginning. I still remember the day I got my first fan mail and it was from a bunch of gals from Pokhara. Thank you gals, it encouraged me so much...
Awards received by Nima
Despite our success from the song and all live concerts we couldn't develop our music/skills within the band and also because of the different taste in music of the band members and me. We decided to split. So I became solo singer and by 1993 I did my first solo song "Jadaichu Tadha Tadha" which I wrote myself and did music myself and was released in 'Touch-1' collection from the same group Harati Cassette Centre. From here... my real musical journey begins. I was admired by lots of my fans and friends for my work. For about 2-3 years I did 4-5 singles for different collection albums. I did song like 'Pagal Premi', 'Ujaad Mero Jeevanma', 'Block Heel Shoes' and they were all superb and went real big hit.
I forgot to mention about my stage performance. All the people and critics claims that there's only one best performer in Nepal in the stage live. And that's Nima Rumba. I do all the best I can when I'm on stage to entertain all the audience and I guess I'm good at it.
I was preparing for my own solo album but didn't really had enough money for recording. During that period I started singing in different restaurants and bars and even in Casino. Just like a Nepali proverb 'Dhunga Khojda Deuta Milyo', (which means to find something bigger & greater than one has expected), I met a person named Pushpa or Pushkar. Sorry dai, I forgot your name. And yeah I met him while I was singing in the Doblee Restaurant & Bar in New Road. He was my regular customer and he used to like my voice a lot. So one day he called me in his table and asked me if I had done any album. I said no dai. I want to do it but I've got financial problem. And he said he'll come next day. Next day he came back and handed me Rs. 10,000 and said record your album. I was so thrilled and happy. I thanked him million times and I still do. For his help and kindness he did to me.
Nima's waiting room filled with awards and photos
After that I collected some more money from my friend Pancha 'Sensi' and added some myself. Then I went to a studio and met music arranger 'Anup Das' and I recorded my first solo album 'Suna Suna' and released it from 'Harati Cassette Centre' in 1994 with the help from Anil Sthapit. The album went real good and the plus point was the cover design and photography of album done by Anil Sthapit which was very unique and attractive.
I did various stage show during that period also did 'Nima Rumba Nite 1994' in Academy Hall by 2nd year student of Shankar Dev campus. I did shows in Pokhara, Darjeeling Sikkim and met so many fans.
In 1996 I recorded my second album 'Nima - Memories' from 'Santana Records' which I worked with Sunil Bardewa and Anup Das for music arranging.
There was a featuring song with GP, a Hip Hop Rap Song. From the album the song 'Ms Catwalk' went super duper hit and also the music video of 'Ms Catwalk' was real hit in Image Channel. Everyone admired me for my performance in this video. Just after a while I did this video and album, I left Nepal to HongKong. I went to HongKong with my wife Sheli and started living very normal life, far from my music world. But the distance really didn't affect me from creating new music and writing songs. Time to time I really missed my country, family and friends specially my fans and my music. So I began to write more songs and did music in new style. Well I guess my writing and singing and music has always been different and unique than you here everyday in our Nepali music field. And that's why I'm always a favorite to my fans and listeners. Guess I'm not talking too much bout myself. Ok... So I came back Nepal after 3 years in 2000 and I recorded my 3rd album 'Huri Bataas' I don't think I really need to talk about 'Huri Bataas' album which everyone knows. How well it did in Nepali music scene. There's all kind of choice of song for everyone and god I worked very hard for it. And I'm happy for the price I received. Thank you all guys for liking this album.
Well again the music video of 'Huri Bataas' and 'Jaadaichu ma hai Videshma' and 'Anjaan Mayalu' were really cool. Huri Bataas was no.1 song in Hits fm for quite a long time and also its music video in Image channel went no 1 in Top Ten for months. And the alum itself was the No.1 Best selling album of the year 2000 and 2001. And it won 'The Best Album of the Year' in 'Hits FM Music Award 2058'.
It was sad though that I wasn’t here to celebrate the honor but I was happy my brother was there to grab that award and again I was back in Nepal on 1st may 2002 and recorded my 4th album 'Lolita'.
And I hope you like it as usual Nima Rumba songs. Hope you will like the music videos as well. Lastly I wanna thank each and every person who has helped in any way throughout my career to get this peak of success and popularity. All the fans, people, friends and families all the media...thank you so much.

Rush (1st Album)
Songs in Album

Aaudai Jaadai
Maya
Parkhai
Saathi
Chahanna Ma
To An Angel
Uglyz
Khonnanimo





AAUDAI JAADAI
It was initially written by Miya Arai in Japanese.

Sarun had paid a visit to Jems Pradhan at his studio called Musicwork in order to meet him and talk about a song that Jems had composed. Sarun ended up playing unplugged in front of Jems on his request, who asked him if he had any original compositions. Sarun told Jems that he had a song, but it was in Japanese. Jems asked him to sing it, following which he articulated, “We will create a Nepali song on this tune.” Keeping his word, Jems wrote the lyrics for the song, which took 3 months to be completed.

MAYA
While Sarun and Sudip were waiting for their turn at Musicwork to record Aaudai Jaadai, they came up with a catch riff, which was later to become “Maya”, the 2nd track of their album. They had the tuneful riff but then no lyrics. On asking Reshna Shakya, (poet, Sarun’s cousin sister) if she had any poems, she provided him two, one of which was “Maya”.

PARKHAI
Sarun, Sudip and Rockin were jamming at Rockin’s place. Sarun was on the drums and playing whatever came on his head. Suddenly, he arrived with a catchy beat with some mix of trance and punk rock. Later, Sarun penned down the lyrics regarding long distance relationship. According to him, Parkhai was the first ever Nepali song that he wrote.

SATHI (SAATH DINCHU)
Sarun, Sudip and Zeevat were doing an overnight stay at Zeevat’s place. They had few drinks and were singing the whole night. All of a sudden, Sudip suggested writing a song and came up with the idea to write a song about friendship (Sathi = friend). Sarun sat on the piano and started playing an old tune he had composed back in 2002. Zeevat began to write the lyrics beginning… “Ti mitha pal haru… Ti mitha din haru... Yaad aai rahanchan sadhai, Garmi ma shital ta shishir ma nyano pan, saath diyou timile sadhai.” Then, for a few hours, they took videos cherishing their friendship, tried to make the song perfect and then went off to bed.

The next day, Sarun tried to finish off the song, but in vain. He was searching for something to write, when out of nowhere, he saw his dog looking up at him. An idea crept up in him to write the rest of the chorus dedicating to his dog (Priti) – after all, a dog is a man’s best friend too. It went like “Bhanne le j bhanos, sunne le j sunos, tara timi mero hou sathi… sath dinchu timilai ma sadhai bhari.”

Later the boys sat together and completed the song. This song has a special meaning to their friendship and has an elite place in their hearts, especially when they are overseas.

CHAHANNA MA
Chahanna ma was the last track that the boys had made. Sarun first came across “Silly Fools” when he had gone to visit Bangkok. He had bought their CD and had always wanted to do a cover song of Silly Fools. Thus, “Chahanna Ma” was born. Reshna and Sarun wrote the lyrics for this one. During the recording phase of Chahanna Ma, Sarun was suffering from kidney stone. He was singing one of the vocals, when had to be rushed to the hospital and put on emergency.

TO AN ANGEL
It was the first song that Sarun had written in 1999. It took him several years to finish the composition. He began the writing process of this song in a friend’s shop at Freak Street, Kathmandu and finished it in Sydney.

UGLY
This not-at-all-ugly song was written by Sarun in Sydney. He testifies that he wrote this at work out of frustration when he failed in a subject during his Bachelor’s degree.

KHONNANIMO
It was written by Miya Arai in Sydney. Sarun and Miya first met each other in college and became friends from then on. She discovered Sarun’s inclination towards music and often heard him sing and strum some of his compositions on his guitar. When requested, she wrote the lyrics for one of Sarun’s tunes which apparently became Khonnanimo and later, as all of us know, Aaudai Jaadai.