Singer Kavita Krishnamurthy, feels that the independent music scene in India has become \u201cvery, very good\u201d now. She expressed her views during\u00a0the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival 2020 in the national capital on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Talking about the impact of internet and social media she further elaborated, \u201cearlier, any singer who had to make a headway as a light music singer, had to make a breakthrough through films, only then they really got heard. Now through YouTube, Facebook and different ways of promoting your own songs, I find a lot of independent music, rock bands, jazz musicians, world musicians, have all come about in India, and have a better market in India than during my times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked how Bollywood playback singing has changed over the course of her long career, she said that when she started out as a playback singer, she found most of her songs to be essentially Indian.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were based a lot on folk, a little bit sometimes raga-based, but more geet-kind of songs. Pronunciation of Hindi words also had to have a certain amount of clarity. The poets played a very important role.”<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could have been a classical-based song, a happy, sad or romantic duet, sometimes a bhajan in a movie. Also, we\u2019d be recorded with the musicians most of the time, if we made a mistake we had to redo the whole song,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She added that it was never line-by-line, but half- or quarter-song was sung together. \u201cIt\u2019s only after 2000, that you could do a line or half a phrase. Technically, things changed a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cut to the present day, and the acclaimed singer finds quite a lot of western-based numbers, Sufi songs, and item numbers. \u201cTrends have changed and there are more rhythm-oriented and guitar-based songs than there were in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having sung for plenty of films in the past few decades, Krishnamurthy has lent her voice to actresses like Nutan, Helen, Shabana, Sridevi, and Kajol, to Karishma Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee. She began her recording career in 1971.<\/p>\n
Some of the films she sang for include \u2018Mr. India\u2019, \u2018Saudagar\u2019, \u20181942: A Love Story\u2019, \u2018Kuch Kuch Hota Hai\u2019, \u2018Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan\u2019, \u2018Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam\u2019, \u2018Dil Chahta Hai\u2019 and \u2018Devdas\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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