Gully Boy Vivian Fernandes to perform at XLRI fest ‘Ensemble-Valhalla’ in Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur: City based B-school XLRI is gearing up for Ensemble-Valhalla, the annual flagship festival.

The fest will be held from November 1 to 3. Famous rapper Vivian Fernandes, better known by his stage name Divine will be performing for its final pro-show night on November 3.

Known for his unique compositions and his series of popular singles and Bollywood songs, Divine has gained phenomenal recognition through his hits in movies like Mukkabaaz, Blackmail, and Gully Boy.

He has a number of accolades to his name such as the 2013 Rolling Stone India Award for the Best Video for Yeh Mera Bombay, the 2018 Outlook Social Media Award for the Musician of the Year, and the 2015 GIMA Award for the Best EDM Track of the Year for �Jungle Raja�. He was the subject of the 2019 Discovery Channel documentary, Gully Life: Story of Divine. The hugely successful Bollywood movie Gully Boy was based on his life. He is the only rapper in India to have been the subject of both a documentary and a Bollywood movie.

� We are all set for the festival. The event promises to be bigger than ever before. It is already witnessing an overwhelming involvement, with the highest ever participant turn out for its pre-event competitions and the overall prize money being as high as Rs 15.5 lakhs. The fest�s theme promises to be an attempt to inspire people to break free from the status quo/stereotypes and encourage innovation among them,� said a student.

Xavier School of Management ( XLRI) is a premier, private management institute in India founded in 1949 by Fr Quinn Enright, S.J. in the �steel city� of Jamshedpur (www.xlri.ac.in). Over the last six decades, the institute has grown into a top-ranking business management school of international repute with a wide portfolio of management programs and research publications. Its alumni are spread around the globe and have demonstrated responsible business leadership in their organisations.