Roopkumar is the child of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, the traditional illuminating presence – an example of the uncommon and apparently the most established style of singing i.e. Dhrupad. He had a place with the "Aditya Gharana of Jamnagar". Pandit Rathod has prepared and prepped numerous surely understood names like Kalyanji – Anandji, Manhar Udhas and some more. He is renowned all through Bollywood as a magnificent playback vocalist, music executive having additionally performed widely with Anup Jalota as a percussionist. Roopkumar has two siblings, music author Shravan Rathod and artist Vinod Rathod. He is hitched to Sunali Rathod.  

 

The fourth child to the Dhrupad Maestro, Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, Roop Kumar, was started into the universe of music in his initial years. His excursion started as a tabla player and he went ahead to end up a standout amongst the most looked for after tablists by all the ghazal artists in the 80s. His tryst with playback singing started in the year 1989 with the melody, 'Primary Tera Aashiq Hoon', formed by Laxmikant Pyarelal for the film "Gumraah."  

 

The melody "Sandese Aate Hai", from the film 'Outskirt', got to be one of the significant leaps forward of Roop Kumar's vocation. It took off to an uncommon level of fame, turning into a song of devotion of sorts for the country. Riding on this rush of prominence and enthusiastically seeking after his energy for music, Roop Kumar loaned his voice to various tunes in Gujrati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Nepali and Bhojpuri movies. Aside from playback singing for movies, Roop Kumar's other push of hobby is live shows. With his similarly talented wife Sunali Rathod, he voyages everywhere throughout the world and performs at various shows. Together, they have captivated gatherings of people crosswise over nations such as US, UK, Dubai, East Africa, Singapore, and so on with their profound interpretations of different types of music spreading over ghazal, sufi, light established and film melodies. Roop Kumar additionally performs live-in front of an audience, with specialists such as Trilok Gurtu, Ranjit Barot and Abhijeet Pohankar in combination shows. He has worked together with Trilok Gurtu for a combination based collection, 'Beat of Love', discharged in December 2001 and a jazz based collection, 'Broken Rhythms', discharged in October 2004. In August 2005, the famous satire serial Sarabhai versus Sarabhai included Roop Kumar and Sunali Rathod in one of their scenes that showcased a well disposed musical challenge. Roop Kumar, alongside wife Sunali, added another quill to his top by together winning the pined for title of 'Ustaad Jodi' on 'Mission Ustaad', a quite acclaimed musical TV reality show disclosed in February 2008, that expected to make mindfulness about social causes. He as of late discharged a sufi collection alongside Sunali Rathod called Kalmaa. He sang title track of Gujarati motion picture Kevi Rite Jaish in 2012.