Once you start listening to him, his voice goes in your soul, goes in your spirit, and you become extremely weak and succumb to the joyous pleasure of his vocals. He says “I feel that this music is my duty, to go and give the message of Sufism. My future is that one day I [...]
Unnikrishnan was initiated into Carnatic Music at age of 12 by Seshadri, Unnikrishnan. The rest, as they say, is history.
It was in 1994 that he received his first film offer and the very first songs, ‘Ennavalae’ (Kaadalan) and ‘Uyirum Neeye’ (Pavitra) bagged him the National Award for Best Male Playback Singer. He can be credited [...]
‘The Blue Mug’ is a devised piece of theatre in which actors Rajat Kapoor, Sheeba Chadha, Munish Bhardwaj and Vinay Pathak go down the path of their personal memories – their childhood, adolescence and youth, and also immediate past in their middle age. The play depicts the larger canvas of Indian memory through monologues and [...]
What can we say more about this artist that a Classical fusion music lover wouldn’t already know. We know that most of our wonderful readers definitely do fall under that category.
Her work now is notable for the way she has applied her expertise as a very fine Indian classical musician, and the profundity [...]
Drawing inspiration from the classical Indian arts, Talvin Singh first came to prominence as tabla percussionist in the 1980s London music scene. Whilst still in his mid teens, Singh traveled to India to earn pupilage from Acharya Pandit Laxman Singh, master tabla maestro of the Punjab school. This period made an indelible mark on the [...]
‘Prasanna is a living hope for quality music’ – A.R. Rahman
How can you play Carnatic music on a guitar? A question that was on everyone’s mind when Prasanna daringly took one of the world’s most ancient musical forms on one of the world’s most modern instruments – the electric guitar! 20 years on, the question [...]
