“For instance, if I play heavy jazz, a common man might not enjoy it, but if I fuse some jazz elements in a Hindi song composition, sub-consciously listeners are getting familiar with the sound of jazz. So, I keep using musical elements of different genres that give common people a glimpse of a new thing,” said the composer. We have to prepare them to accept the experiment we are doing, and that is how we can grow in future. “Apart from being a singer and composer, I always have (the aim of) educating the layman. So, does he change his approach to music to bring change with time? So that both a veteran and a common audience can connect with its musicality.” “The experiment has to have some amount of insight or knowledge. See, when we did ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’, and ‘Rock On!!’, it created a huge difference because it was no fluke. Shankar Mahadevan with Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.Īsked about the evolution of film music and if enough experimentation is happening, Mahadevan said: “I think an experiment creates an impact and can bring a change if it has a depth. They have brought a huge change in the sound of Hindi film music with some memorable albums for films like Dil Chahta Hai, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Rock On!!, Wake Up Sid, My Name Is Khan and Mirzya. He also composes songs along with his two music partners Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa, who are together known as Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. He previously worked with Zakir Hussain as the vocalist in Remember Shakti quintet.Mahadevan also performs with his sons, and had recently collaborated with them for MTV Unplugged. State Department to perform at the United Nations for the finale of the International Jazz Festival. In 2012, he was invited by UNESCO and the U.S. As time went on, he found his own compositional voice, and he has since become the leading composer in Indian film music, selling millions of records every year.
Rahman, then proceeded to win multiple National Film Awards. He won the first of his many awards for his film music collaboration with legendary director A.R. This quickly brought him to the attention of Bollywood, and he soon became the singing voice of every Tamil hero. In 1998, he ventured into music and released his first album, Breathless (so named because the title song was written as though it was to be sung in one breath). He sang from his earliest days, but then diverted into a career as a software engineer. Shankar Mahadevan is among the greatest Indian vocalists alive, having risen to fame in Mumbai’s fabled Bollywood film industry as a composer, playback singer, and member of the famed Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composing team.
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