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“There are two-three reasons because of which I decided to cut down on
my projects. First was that not many songs offered to me today appeal
to me. This is because composers have started singing themselves,” Sonu
said.”Most of the times, composers make songs that are apt for their
voices. It’s all business. I don’t hold it against them because
everyone has a right to safeguard their interests.”Music composers have
realised that concerts are money spinners. So they make songs that they
can sing. I don’t want to be part of this craziness where I am given
sub-standard songs and the best are taken by the composers themselves.
I’m pretty content with what I’m doing,” he added.The singer, who
enthralled music buffs with hit numbers like “Suraj hua madham”,
“Saathiya” and “Kal ho na ho” among others, says he misses good
music.”I miss good music in totality today. There are hardly any great
songs that have come up in the last three to four years. The songs that
sounds great instantly, disappear after two-three months… those songs
don’t stay with the listeners,” said Sonu who has a huge fan following
not only in India but abroad also.
The 36-year-old singer has been working in the industry for more than
17 years and says that he wanted to give himself a break.”I wanted to
reduce my work. There were days when I had sung 11 songs in a day. I
used to keep running from one studio to another and in that process I
lost myself. So I stopped doing songs which were not very good. I made
my work qualitative,” informed Sonu who recently became the brand
ambassador of 92.7 Big FM.”I couldn’t enjoy life for many years because
of work. So now I want to do only quality work. I rather say no to
trash. I don’t want to spoil my repertoire and that’s why you will hear
less of me in future. But whatever you hear, you will never say that
‘oh that was a trash song’,” added the singer. The
versatile singer recently sang the song “Chiggy wiggy” for “Blue” and
international pop star Kylie Minogue too lent her voice for the same,
but they didn’t get to meet each other.”I gave my nod to ‘Chiggy wiggy’
because of A.R. Rahman. I didn’t even know that Kylie will be singing
the song too. I never met Kylie. She was in London when I sang the song
in Mumbai. Then when she came here, I was out of India.”
Rahman fever
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