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If 2009 was a significant year for Rahman, what with the music maestro grabbing
two Oscars, and collaborating with Pussycat Dolls for another version of Jai
Ho, this year's Grammy Awards nomination (in two categories) is, as musician
Salim Merchant explains, "another feather in his cap".
Rahman is nominated in the category of Best Song Written for Motion
Picture/Television or Other Visual Media, along with lyricist Gulzar and singer
Tanvi Shah for Jai Ho.
Rahman is also nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion
Picture/Television or Other Visual Media, and will face competition from
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Darnell Martin's Cadillac Records,
HBO's True Blood and Twilight.
While experts are already predicting Rahman's win at the function, the music
maestro continues to remain humble and down to earth. "Every tune that goes out
from my studio is special. Jai ho was special too," he says.
While Indians are rejoicing at the inclusion of the Indian artistes at the
Grammy Awards in LA, musician Shubha Mudgal, in an article, makes an
interesting observation: "Why is there no separate category for Indian music or
even for Asian music, despite its strong and unique presence in the world? Why
do we have to be dumped into a category called World Music with the rest of the
world?... Why not a new South Asian Grammy, if not an all-Indian Grammy?"
Going by the growing Indian presence at the Grammys, who knows, maybe the event
in January 2010 will be an "all-Indian Grammy"?
