Harmonies from the homeland

Indian music transcends the boundaries of meaningless entertainment and serves a greater purpose. It is a source of religious inspiration and cultural expression. Most ancient Indian religions give importance to music as a vital part of prayer. This is because Indian music has the intoxicating quality of completely hypnotising the individual and transporting him into a trance-like state.

The Indian music is as vast and diverse as India itself. The music of India has a history spanning millenia, developed over several eras and includes innumerable varieties of folk, pop and classical music. The two main traditions of classical music are carnatic music, found predominently in the peninsular regions, and hindusthani music found in the northern and central parts.

Although the roots of Indian music lie in the Indian traditions, it bears proof of foreign influences. Alongside 1distinctly sub-continental forms, there are major influences of persian, Arabic, Turkish and British music.

Indian genres like filmi and bhangra have become popular through out the United Kingdom, America, Asia and around the world. Indian pop stars now sell records in many countries, while world music fans are lapping up everything with an Indian stamp on it.It has come to a point where the west is trying to ape Indian culture.

"Now that's something to be proud of!"

my musical journey

Becoming a famous singer has always been my dream, rather my mum's wish i wud say. and now that i hav given quite a few performances on stage, i am happy that i hav set my path towards my dream. As every singer says, my first guru was none other than my mum. yea, i still remember running around the house, blindly repeating the lines sung by her, in my own childish voice..little did she realise that i wud become the proud disciple of the gr8 living legend "smt.D.K.Pattammal" but then it didnt happen that soon. we shifted from mumbai to chennai, for my parents rightly thought it was always better to bring up a child under the luv and care of elders(especially the grand parents). and there began my real musical journey. i was in my 2nd std wen i attended my first formal music class and my teacher was ms.Ashwathi(disciple of smt.D.K.Pattammal). startin from the basics of carnatic music...SA RE GA MA....my learning process continued successfully for about 6 yrs under her teaching. one fine day, my teacher felt that it was the right time fr me to take up music a bit more seriously, in the sense..to persue it as my future career. and today i am really thankful to her for being so kind and pushing me a step forward in my musical journey. yea! she was the one who introduced me to my present guru , a gr8 celebrity whom i wud'nt hav even imagined of just meeting her in person, if not fr her.

its been a grrrrrrrr8 honour to learn from such a gr8 woman! but i was too young to realise her gr8ness wen i was a beginner. and she used to be such a loving and wonderful teacher, (i am too small to talk about her anyways, so i restrict myself for it wud be highly childish to comment on a legendary person). since then, i hav cum a loooong way in music and today, my parents feel really happy for their right decision at the rite time. the bombay life wud hav been more enjoyable but i wud'nt hav got this opportunity unless i was here...

though its been a real long way, as my guru always quotes "sangeetha saagaram" which means music is a never ending ocean and its a never ending learning process....i hav a long way to achieve atleast a very small part of wat my guru has done... for which i realize the amount of hard work to be done, and i'm sure i will live up to their(amma, appa and my guru) expectations and make my mum's wish cum true, very soon!