It's fusion music of the most popular kind – pop musicians and entertainers
from Bollywood have teamed up with some of the biggest names in music
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Akki and Snoop Dogg jamming for Singh Is Kinng More
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abroad, and they're doing a collaboration like that every other day.
Kylie Minogue's the latest to join the gang – she's singing for an AR Rahman
composition from the upcoming B-town
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Rahman, who hasn't been called the Mozart of Madras by Time magazine for
nothing, has collaborated many times with foreign artistes, and his tracks
have featured in movies like The Lord Of The Rings and Elizabeth. He's
worked with Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam for his
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Indian Ocean, the proceeds from which went towards helping orphans in Banda
Aceh, one of the areas worst affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In
1999, Rahman, along with choreographers Shobhana and Prabhu Deva Sundaram
and a Tamil cinema dancing troupe, performed with Michael Jackson in Munich,
Germany, for his Michael Jackson and Friends
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Three years later, he composed his maiden stage production called Bombay
Dreams, an Andrew Lloyd Webber production and a success in London's West
End. With Finnish folk music band Varttina, he wrote the music for The Lord
of the Rings theatre production and in 2004, composed the piece Raga's
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Vanessa-Mae's album, Choreography. His compositions have been reused
in
film scores abroad, in movies like Inside Man, Lord Of War and The
Accidental Husband. The buzz now is that rapper Akon, who came to India this
year, might be tying up with Rahman. Rahman confirms that there have been
"some feelers from his side," but also says that "nothing has been
formalised."
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Vithur
