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TOTEM

TOTEM is the musical alias of Anoop Desai, who finished sixth on the eighth season of American Idol in 2009. He started releasing songs as TOTEM anonymously, photographed only in shadow, put out the Pride EP in 2015 and the singles “Bubblegum” (2016) and “Aftertaste” (2017), and played Lollapalooza in 2016. Since 2020 he has worked mainly as an actor, including as the Djinn on What We Do in the Shadows.

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TOTEM singing into a handheld microphone on an outdoor stage, in sunglasses and a mustard suede jacket, his other hand on his chest
Photo: Swabsnafu, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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TOTEM “Believe In Us”

A 2014 song from the months when TOTEM kept his name hidden, made with the duo who wrote “Airplanes”, and since gone from his catalogue.

Elmo Phelge · 23 Oct 2026
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