Biddu or Biddu Appaiah is an Indian-British music producer, composer and song-writer who produced and composed a number of hit records during the early part of the British Disco scene of the mid-1970s. He launched the career of Pakistani singer Nazia Hassan, and produced Indipop hits for a number of Indian acts, notably Alisha Chinai. From the mid-1970s, Biddu has also been producing his own pop instrumental albums as Biddu Orchestra.

Biddu's originally hailed from Kodagu, Karnataka state, India, but he was brought up in the city of Bangalore, India. Biddu worked with various musicians in Britain till the late 1970s, when Disco music slowly began to wane and funk music began taking centre-stage in popular music, taking with it Biddu's established place in the British music scene. but he soon found himself spinning out hits and working in another part of the world - his home country. It didn't take a long time for Biddu to compose Aap jaisa koi for Qurbani.

Biddu now lives in Spain with his English wife and two grown-up children.

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