A Gujarati Grammy this year!Bharat Yagnik, TNN, 2 February 2010, 01:47am IST Text Size: |
AHMEDABAD: Mon: AND WE WON BOTH THE GRAMMYS!!!!!!!! Thank u god for everything... Feeling blessed... And thanks to everyone for all the wishes n prayers!! Is what Tanvi Shah, 32, posted on a social networking site. Tanvi is perhaps Gujarat’s closest brush with a Grammy, being one of the songwriters in AR Rahman’s team that won the award on Sunday evening along with Sukhvinder Singh, Mahalaxmi Iyer and Vijay Prakash. Apparently, Tanvi, a multi-lingual singer based in Chennai, penned the Spanish version of this song and has sung for movies in several languages except Gujarati! Early on Monday she called up her family in Chennai to give the news. “She did not talk for long. She sounded quite happy and was extremely tired after attending the Grammy Awards ceremony. She promised to call back in the morning,” said her father Yogesh Shah, whose family moved from Bhuj in Kutch district, to Chennai, some 100 years ago. Tanvi’s mother Bhavna Shah celebrated the award by distributing mohan thaal to her neighbours. The Shahs run Matruchhaya Girls High School established in 1972, that has 4,000 students. In Chennai, Tanvi’s father runs a granite mining and export business and owns a jewellery showroom with his younger son Abhay, 23. Tanvi graduated in fine arts from the George Washington University, Washington DC, and learnt western music from Trinity College of Music, UK. “Music was her own choice. She first sang Christmas carols in Chennai,” Shah told TOI over the phone from Chennai. She sent a tape of her carol singing to Rahman in 2003 and was invited to sing for him. In January, she went on a world tour with Rahman and performed in Australia and Muscat among other places. “She loves kadhi-khichdi and jalebi,” said her mother Bhavna about the trekker-cyclist daughter. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/A-Gujarati-Grammy-this-year/articleshow/5525933.cms -- - Regards ~ ~ A.R.Rajib ~ ~
