Ideas Without Boundaries.
Conversations with Indian classical musicians, vocalists, playback and Bollywood artists.
“Kaun Kehta Hai Mohabbat ki zuban hoti hai / Yeh haqeeqat to nigahon se bayan hoti hai.” (- Who is it who can say that love can be conveyed through words / Its truth is mirrored in the eyes”). Jagjit Singh sang this very popular Read More …
“There is no greatness without pain.” He was a child prodigy who gave his first professional performance at the age of eight, and today Ustad Shahid Parvez is considered one of the greatest sitar players in the world after Pandit Ravi Shankar, and yet in Read More …
He comes from a lineage traced to Mia Tansen and is the younger brother of sitar legend Ustad Vilayat Khan. He has mastery in the sitar, surbahar, tabla and vocal music and yet at 68, the youthful Imrat Khan Sahib says he continues to practice Read More …
He is over 70 and yet his voice soars to heights vocalists half his age struggle to attain. He has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan, the title of Sangeet Martand, and innumerable other accolades, yet Pundit Jasraj takes it all in his stride. In Read More …
His musical journey has had the most unlikely beginnings and yet today he is the greatest living flute player in the world. He insists he may create heavenly music blowing into a piece of bamboo, but he remains jealous of Lord Krishna, who in spite Read More …
He is perhaps the last of the living legends among male singers, gifted with a unique voice no one has managed to ape till now. While you come across clones of other legendary singers in the present day world of vocal music, Manna Dey remains Read More …
She worshipped the sounds of music, though there was nothing musical in her family background. Shying from the limelight, she was nevertheless thrust into it, by the chant of a Shiv shloka, rising to dizzying heights of success. Music maestro O.P. Nayyar, had said she Read More …
He is called the bhajan samrat, the ghazal maestro and performs an incredible 12 concerts every month, traveling around the world five, six times a year. He accomplished in five years what took Elvis Presley 27, when in 1998 he surpassed Presley’s record of 45 Read More …
In Conversation with Kavita A Chhibber The lights dimmed and the voice, that has for over six decades, enthralled, mesmerized and enchanted generations of music lovers and still retains its sultry sensuality, it freshness, its melodious perfection and pitch, soared from the interiors of the Read More …
She is trained in Hindustani classical music, but her passion is Flamenco. She never wanted to be a playback singer in Bollywood and here she is churning out blockbuster hit after hit beginning with her debut song with none other than the musical genius A.R.Rahman. Read More …
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