Garba
Non-stop sets built for the circle, from traditional trantali rhythms to recreated classics.
- Killol series
- Garba Wave
- Navrat
The story
Rooted in
Rhythm
The story of a voice that began beside her father at devotional gatherings, travelled Gujarat's stages by bicycle and motorbike, and now leads Navratri nights from Ahmedabad to Mumbai and beyond.
- 01Patan district · Ahmedabad
The Beginning
Kinjal Dave's roots are in Jesangpura, a small village in Patan district in north Gujarat. She grew up in Ahmedabad in a working family, and music arrived at home through her father, who sang bhajans and garba at small community functions.
She learned the way many folk singers do, by listening. At around seven she began singing beside him at devotional gatherings. There was no formal guru and no music school. Her training was the repertoire of Gujarat's community stages, absorbed by singing it.
- 02Lagna geet · Dayro · Garba
Finding Her Voice
Her first opportunities came through the people closest to her. Her father and the lyricist Manu Rabari brought her into the recording studio for wedding-song collections, and the Jonadiyo lagna-geet series became her calling card. Digital listings date D.J. Jonadiyo, Pt. 1 and Kinjal Dave No Rankar to 2015.
Alongside the recordings came the live circuit: weddings, lok dayro, santvani evenings and garba across north Gujarat, Saurashtra, Kutch and Mumbai. In the early years she and her father travelled to programmes by bicycle, and later on a motorbike that carried them across the state.
- 032016 – 2017
The Breakthrough
In 2016 a playful wedding song written by Manu Rabari, Char Char Bangdi Vadi Gadi, carried her voice far beyond the stages she knew. It spread through YouTube and social media, reaching Gujarati families across the state and the diaspora.
She followed it with Ame Gujarati Leri Lala and Chhote Raja in 2017, and by the next Navratri she was singing in Ahmedabad on every one of the nine nights.
- 04Garba · Devotion · Film
Beyond the Breakthrough
Success widened the range rather than narrowing it. She made her acting debut in the Gujarati film Dada Ho Dikri in 2018, launched her own label, KD Digital, and recorded devotional work such as Jay Adhyashakti Aarti alongside new garba.
The Killol series turned her Navratri sets into non-stop albums: Killol in 2020, Killol 2.0 in 2022 and Killol 3.0 in 2024, each built for dancing from the first beat to the last. In 2019 she was honoured at the Gauravvanta Gujarati awards.
- 05Mumbai · Perth · London · North America
A New Generation of Gujarati Music
In 2022 she made her Navratri debut in Mumbai and took pre-Navratri garba to Perth. Since then, promoters have brought her garba nights to London and to Gujarati communities in North America and Australia.
She has spoken about keeping a large share of traditional songs in every set so that grandparents and teenagers can share the same circle. In 2026 that balance continues, with the Garba Wave Navratri album on her own channel and Fundadi, a new collaboration with Dhvani Bhanushali.