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Six Pack Band

pop music group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ104419358
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Six Pack Band is an Indian pop music group. The media has remarked that they are the first music group of all hijra performers, with "hijra" translated as "transgender".

The band members are Asha Jagtap, Komal Jagtap, Ravina Jagtap, Fida Khan, Bhavika Patil, and Chandni Suvarnakar. Each of them has shared biographical information about themselves.

India was in the midst of media attention and popular support for the repeal of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code when the band formed in 2016.

When the band came to media attention they already had 5 music videos available online in YouTube.

Brooke Bond tea has featured the band in their advertisements.

In a 2020 episode the podcast De Taali-Life of a Transgender profiled the band.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pack, Band and music is the immediate research focus.
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