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{{Short description|Australian musician}}

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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name        = Raja Ram
| image        = Raja_ram.jpg
| caption       = Raja Ram on a tour on 1200 Micrograms
| landscape      = yes
| background     = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name     = Ronald Gary Rothfield
| alias        =
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1940|12|18}}
| death_date     =
| origin       = [[Melbourne]]
| instrument     = Flute, synthesiser
| genre        = [[electronic music|Electronic]], [[jazz]], [[ambient music|ambient]], [[Chill-out music]], [[Downtempo]], [[psychedelic rock]], [[psychedelic trance]]
| occupation     = Musician
| years_active    = 1969–present
| label        =
| associated_acts   = [[Quintessence (English band)|Quintessence]], [[Shpongle]], [[The Mystery of the Yeti]], [[The Infinity Project]], 1200 Micrograms, [[The Zap!]], [[Cyberbabas]]
| website         = psychology music
}}
'''Raja Ram''' (born '''Ronald Gary Rothfield''', 18 December 1940) is an Australian-born musician and the owner of the United Kingdom record label Tip World. He was a founding member of the [[psychedelic rock]] band [[Quintessence (English band)|Quintessence]] in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing at the first two [[Glastonbury Festival|Glastonbury Fayres]] in 1970 and 1971. He later found success in the [[psychedelic trance]] scene and continues to headline at large events worldwide.
[[File:Ronald Rothfield Raja Ram.jpg|thumb|Raja Ram performing with 1200 Micrograms in [[Teotihuacan|Teotihuacán, Mexico]], in September 2009]]

Ram was nominated for "Best Psychedelic Trance DJ" at the [[DJ Awards]] in 2001<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Editions 2001|url=http://djawards.com/past-editions/dj-awards-2001/|website=djawards.com|publisher=DJ Awards|accessdate=18 May 2015|archive-date=15 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115033614/http://djawards.com/past-editions/dj-awards-2001/|url-status=live}}</ref> and 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Editions 2003|url=http://djawards.com/past-editions/dj-awards-2003/|website=djawards.com|publisher=DJ Awards|accessdate=18 May 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062931/http://djawards.com/past-editions/dj-awards-2003/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Shpongle]]
*[[The Infinity Project]]
*[[Quintessence (band)]]
*[[Psydub]]
*[[Goa trance]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tiprecords.com TIP Records]

*{{cite web |last1=Arantes |first1=Eduardo |title=Raja Ram, a lenda viva |url=http://psyte.uol.com.br/redacao/materias/materia.asp?seq=247 |website=psyte.uol.com |access-date=3 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060728225059/http://psyte.uol.com.br/redacao/materias/materia.asp?seq=247 |archive-date=28 July 2006 |language=pt |date=May 16, 2006 |url-status=dead }}

*{{cite news |last1=Alici |first1=Jessica |title=Raja Ram "The Story of my Life" |url=https://diceradio.gr/News/View/1545/raja-ram-the-story-of-my-life |access-date=3 July 2025 |work=DiceRadio |date=November 2017}}

*{{cite news |last1=РУБЛЕВ |first1=Сергей Сергеевич |title=SHPONGLE - Голоса в голове - Звуки.Ру |url=https://www.zvuki.ru/R/P/16210/#google_vignette |access-date=3 July 2025 |work=[[:ru:Звуки.ру|Звуки.ру]] |date=March 17, 2007 |language=ru}}

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[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Australian electronic musicians]]
[[Category:Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Australian expatriates in the United States]]
[[Category:Australian flautists]]
[[Category:Musicians from Melbourne]]
[[Category:Psychedelic trance musicians]]
[[Category:Australian people of Indian descent]]


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