Ideas Without Boundaries.
Conversations with Indian classical musicians, vocalists, playback and Bollywood artists.
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 …
It was said by many a musician that no man could possibly evoke as many sounds from a drum as Ustad Allah Rakha, until they were silenced by the performance of this man. Legend goes that when he was just a few days old, this Read More …
He can trace his lineage all the way back to Mian Tansen the great court musician in Emperor Akbar’s court. His father is the legendary Ustad Vilayat Khan, ranked among the greatest musicians of the century. The older Khan has made headlines not just for Read More …
She is a multitalented woman, and beautiful even in her seventies. Lakshmi Shankar has seen and done it all, from classical dance, to film singing to classical vocal music and excelling at it all. Married to Pundit Ravi Shankar’s brother Rajendra, Lakshmi Shankar shares memories Read More …
He was all of seventeen years old, an American, longhaired and hippie like when he accosted vocalist Kalpana Mazumdar after hearing a classical music LP and asked her if she would teach him classical vocal music. “YOU want to learn classical vocal music?” was her Read More …
His father is a concert pianist, and while he himself had a jazz background playing mostly wind instruments like saxophone, clarinet, the western flute, what fascinated Steve Gorn initially was the shehnai. Today he is easily one of the most gifted Bansuri exponents in the Read More …