He’s got a good and distinctive voice, and he’s got amazing talent and training, but I bet there are plenty of other incredibly talented young men in India who also studied with a guru since they were 3 years old and have achieved mastery over music itself. I don’t know if Arijit is the best singer in the world, or has the greatest voice. He was playing his music, but he was playing it for us, he wanted us to enjoy it, and the audience just drove it higher and higher and higher as the concert went on. But Arijit last night, he was all about the audience, and the audience was all about him. His music was just for him, he didn’t care how we felt about it. The difference was, the audience just wasn’t feeling it as much. It was that same feeling, that he had just mastered “music” as an abstract concept, that any division between singer-composer-musician was just artificial. He sang, he played I don’t even remember how many instruments, obviously they were all his own compositions and arrangements as well. Basically, he had to master “music” as an abstract concept, and then pick the two tools with which he could best express it (his voice and drumming) and hone them to perfection.Īll of that reminded me of the Rahman concert.
And before he focused on that, as a matter of course, he was expected to learn every other instrument as well, and arranging, and composing, and conducting. I saw an excerpt from an interview where he talked about routinely working with his Guru for 7 hour stretches, keeping going until his voice gave out.īut after seeing what he was able to do at the show last night, I think officially studying tabla and singing just means that he reached the point of becoming a great master of both. He officially studied singing and the tabla. He started at age 3, with one primary “Master” and two sub-masters. It made me go back and think about what I’d read about his training again. I’m not sure, but someone certainly did because they were unique, not the same kind of arrangement as on the film score versions of the songs. And he may have designed all the arrangements too (which was how he started, doing arrangements for composers). Technically someone else was conducting, but Arijit would give little hand signals while he was singing to indicate if they needed to repeat a phrase or speed up or slow down. And not like casually playing them, he was doing elaborate duets and set-pieces with his guest musicians. Not only did Arijit perform for 3 hours straight with only one 10 minute break, he also played 3 different instruments, piano and two different kinds of guitars. Which just showed how little I know about what it really means to be trained as a master musician by a classical guru in the traditional manner. Which I thought was a mildly interesting thing to know, maybe I would be able to tell that from some slight musical phrasing he used or something. In my post yesterday, I talked about how Arijit had a classical music background. But this concert somehow managed to take the serious music and technical brilliance of AR Rahman and mix it with the showmanship and crowd madness of Shahrukh Khan. So, it’s a mix of musicians and dancer/movie stars.
Then Vishal and Shekhar at a tiny funky neighborhood theater. And then back to the stadium for an Asha Bhosle concert. Not at a stadium, at an orchestra hall with limited seating and famously good acoustics. Let’s see, starting in 2014 with the SLAM tour, what are all the concerts I’ve seen? I think the next one was a super classical and musical evening with AR Rahman. Chauhan in a statement said, "Everything about the evening was just so grand - right from the spectacular production, the choreography, and my look.Wow! Just, like, WOW! This is not my first Indian concert, it’s not even my first all musical concert, but I had never expected to see this combination of audience fan madness offstage and technical brilliance onstage. Chauhan wore the dress for a two minute-performance. The dress was especially created for her by internationally acclaimed Indian fashion designers Falguni and Shane Peacock. Sunidhi Chauhan during the premiere of the show on 6 June 2015, flaunted a dress worth ₹0.3 million (US$4,000). Endemol India announced that Terence Lewis would be choreographing the opening act for the premiere of the show. In April 2015, &TV and show producer Endemol India announced leading Bollywood singers Himesh Reshammiya, Mika Singh, Shaan and Sunidhi Chauhan as the coaches for the first season and Karan Tacker as the host.
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