Hi all, As I promised, I am back - with tidbits shared by Sujatha, Karthik and Raihana on Rahmania show.... (I'm writing all of these from my memory, so, pls excuse any inaccuracies)
Karthik: "I was such a big fan of Rahman sir, I never even dreamt that i could become a playback singer, let alone singing in Rahman sir's music. Singer Shrinivas is a relative of one of my friends, and thru my friend i got to meet him. I really wanted to meet him, because he is closely associated with Rahman.... At that time, I thought 'i donno if i can ever meet rahman sir, It would be great to meet someone who has closely interacted with him'!! But, Shrinivas sir asked me if i could sing, and he asked me to give a cd with my voice, and he passed it on to ARR... almost a year later, Shrinivas sir called and told me that I needed to go to ARRs studio... I couldnt believe it.. it was for a harmony part... It was great!!" "I have sung harmony for many songs, including the latest 'sana nana... ma mana nana' bit in Adhiradi (Sivaji). Tippu, Devan, I and others used to have great fun during the harmony recordings... Even a year after I first sang for ARR, he used to get confused between me and Tippu, and often used to refer to me as Tippu!!! He would want tippu to sing a part again, but would say 'Karthik, please sing it'... and i would start off... and he woud say 'oh... i meant KARTHIK' but pointing to TIPPU!! It was great fun...." "Even after singing so many songs as the lead singer, I still long to sing harmonies for him...It is a whole new learning experience.. Each time I work with him, especially for harmonies, i learn a lot...Even recently I called up Rahman sir and asked him if there are any songs for which I could join in the harmony..." That's pretty much what I found really interesting about ARR, from Karthik's interview... I will write excerpts from Sujatha's interview in my next mail... Cheers, Aravind http://arrahmaniac.blogspot.com --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.
