Dude ! i admit every singer has some pluses & minuses. I was really
disappointed to hear Hariharan, kartik or sukhwinder & Aslam Khan in showing
their creativity aspect in classical genre while singing Ghanan Ghanan in AR
concerts, saw last week in youtube. They suffer with lack of creativity by keep
on repeating certain limited phrases not exploring into much of it. If this is
the case of so-called famous singers like hariharan or sukwinder not to mention
about female singers like chitra, madusri & sadna who are fit only for tailor
made songs inside studios. These play back singers be it male or female are the
weakest when show casing their classical side of talent that is not pre-sung in
albums which have covered all their errors. On other hand you hear to singers
used to classical music render these creative aspect of film music, you will
know what it is. But these classical singers mostly dont possess voices apt for
playback singing. Nithyasri just amazing in minsara
kanna. But her voice cant be much used for playback. Same to Bombay Jayashri.
Unni Krishnan can fit to both extremes of music but his voice not much
attractive for playback though his songs are hits :) It is a golden rule, you
cannot have all the talents perfect in one.
rgds
Ricky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As much as songs by Rahman sound great...I must say that I don't
really buy into a few of your observations...
a) singers who can go high pitch without breaking! There are too many
of them! Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Sukhwinder, are all masters of
this!
b) Javed Ali might sing a Sukhwinder song on stage, but he is FAAAAR
from the magic that Sukhwinder creates! For that matter, I bet Javed
could sing a Rahman song. Of course, this would not happen with Rahman
himself there, and plus similiarly - it won't sound as good.
Sorry about being blunt. But, I must say that while Rahman is by far
the most amazing musician ever, with reference to singers - its not
fair to underrate those who are really genius in that field.
-Ricky
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "naztitude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> This is not any new thought but each time I hear a song sung by rahman
> himself im forced to think of this!
> The songs which Rahman sings makes them all the more special because
> of his voice way ahead of his composition.Take any song from Dilse to
> fanaa..there is this voice that makes the song more a pleasure to hear.
> Rahman is perhaps the most versatile singer ever. I think this year
> should fetch him awards for his crooning as well. The year began with
> Khwaja mere Khwaja, Meherbaan and tu bole main boloon till now!!
> I often feel, in the past, although ARR has recieved innumerable
> awards for his music, he has been left behind as a singer for reasons
> we need to blame Rahman himself!!
> Firstly, he calls himself a very upcoming singer, simply becuase of
> his humble nature and always lifts up the other singers-a truly noble
> quality. This may take off the attention from him-but look at him he
> is more than happy to give it to others.
> Secondly, he makes his singing sound like its so easy!! Another reason
> perhapy why the jury might just not consider his singing! But wait-try
> singing the song he sang dear jury members and you might want to
> reconsider!
> Whenever Rahman sings a song, he makes it impossible for others to
> sing it. In his concerts, he has Javed Ali to sing Sukhwinder but
> there's not a chance when one sing like rahman himself. He is perhaps
> the only male voice who can go so high without breaking off or losing
> control. The speciality he gives to a song is very simple, like going
> high to end a line-maybe in Khwaja or Vande matram or the stress he
> gives to the sound "CH" like "Chaiya hai" in Khwaja or "SHK" sound
> in "Bhi Rashk kare" or "THA" like "Nikla Tha" in dilse. Im in awe!!
> Rahman knows it all-as simple as it may sound to the listener, its a
> trick to the singer to try like him!
> His voice can be divine-Like in Zikr. His voice can be a lover-like in
> Tere bina. His voice can be patriotic like in VM or ye jo des ha tera.
> His voice can be naughty like in tu bole..This is what versatiltiy
> means!!
> Well with almost six to seven ARR Releases this yr im hoping the voice
> that I fell in love with "Yelelo" right from Roja wins awards for his
> voice!
> And Sir, please dont even claim that your just beginning as a singer
> or dont even say you dont like your voice-because everytime I need
> some energy, we drink on Dilse or Vellai pookal! True!
>
> Nazeef
>
