Career
Darbuka spent the early part of the carrier tossing between music and his alternate carrier as a radio jockey for Radio Mirchi, before moving on to spearhead his first commercial success, Yodhakaa in the year 2006, which the first of its kind Contemporary Indian music album. His second commercial album, La Pongal was released on Pongal day 2012, which is a self acclaimed first Tamil folk band ever.
Sivas works are notable for collaborating electronic music sounds with Tamil folk music through his band, La Pongal, which is labeled as 'contemporary-electro-Tamil-music', who also happen to be one of the main acts in Chennai Sangamam. Notably, he has performed on-screen through the 2011 released Romantic drama, Pathinaaru along with Mirchi Shiva, Madhu Shalini, which was a musical by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
La Pongal, the second commercial album from Darbuka Siva, was a first of its kind, Tamil folk album. Tamil folk, though is a genre common from the southern part of India, forming a band promoting the same and bringing out an album through the genre was new and introduced by the makers of "Yodhakaa", which again promoted a different genre. La pongal received several positive critical acclaims, including The Hindu claiming the album as Folk with a modern flavour and Times of India calling it as a collaboration when cultures come together.