Siddhartha Khosla

Siddhartha Khosla is an Emmy-nominated film and television composer, singer/songwriter, and producer of the critically acclaimed band, Goldspot. Khosla received Emmy nominations in 2020 for "Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics" for his original song "Memorized" (shared with Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith) and in 2019 for "Outstanding Music Composition For a Series" for his work on NBC's Golden Globe and Emmy-winning drama series, This Is Us. Khosla has the distinction of being the first South Asian person to be nominated in the Primetime Emmy score and song categories. After playing in a hugely powerful montage to end the episode, "Memorized" skyrocketed to the #1 spot on the Billboard soundtrack song charts and #13 overall. Khosla also co-composed the hit song, "We Can Always Come Back To This" for the show, which ranked #12 overall, and #1 in the Billboard Blues charts for four consecutive weeks. His original songs "Invisible Ink" and "We Can Always Come Back To This" also earned Guild of Music Supervisors Award nominations for "Best Song/Recording for Television." His feature film credits include the 2019 Netflix hip-hop drama feature Beats, the award-winning indie drama feature, The Sounding, from director Catherine Eaton starring Frankie Faison and Teddy Sears which won 17 awards including Festival Grand Prizes from several festivals including Woodstock, Bend, Istanbul, Napa, and Cinequest, and the comedy feature film, Fat Camp. Additionally, Khosla composed an original song for the musical film Basmati Blues, starring Academy Award-winner Brie Larson and Golden Globe Award-winner Donald Sutherland. Recently, Khosla scored the critically acclaimed Hulu limited series, Looking for Alaska, Marvel's Runaways on Hulu, and the Disney + series Love, Victor. Khosla's Indian-born parents came to the U.S. in the mid-seventies to make the American dream their own. With only eight dollars upon arrival, they were forced to take night jobs while they completed graduate school during the day. They had no choice but to send their toddler son back to India, where Khosla was raised by his grandparents. During this time, when international phone calls were prohibitively expensive, music became central to Khosla's life as he listened to his mother sing to him on cassette tapes she mailed from America. Khosla's song "Evergreen Cassette" is about this very experience, and was featured in the first season of "This is Us." Khosla's love of music and connection to his Indian heritage were kept alive by his parents through the old Indian movie soundtracks they played in their home once he returned to the U.S. As a teenager, he embraced Western bands such as The Smiths, The Cure, The Beatles and Paul Simon. Today, his childhood experiences and musical roots inform his scores and songs to convey a sound that is engaging and unique. Khosla is a skilled multi-instrumentalist, and uses varied instrumentation on his scores from vintage electric and acoustic guitars, rare organs, orchestras, Eastern instruments like the harmonium and the Greek bouzouki, to Flemish harpsichords and vintage analog synthesizers. In November 2013, Khosla was invited as the musical guest for First Lady Michelle Obama's Diwali celebration at the White House, where he delivered an emotional performance of several of his original songs. He has also been performing his music from This Is Us for audiences worldwide. In 2019, he performed in Los Angeles at the Ford Theatre and at the MOSMA Festival in Málaga, Spain. Khosla has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he composed and sang for the university's award-winning a cappella group, "Off the Beat." He now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and children.