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Jaipur swings to Rahman’s beats
Special Correspondent
MUSIC GENIUS: A. R.
Rahman
JAIPUR: The Pink City experienced the A. R. Rahman magic live for
the first time on Friday evening when the singer-composer kept a large
audience spellbound for two hours at Amroodon Ka Bagh.
The dust kicked up by an afternoon storm which brought down festival
arches and festoons hung along Janpath for the ongoing week-long
“Rajasthan Diwas” celebrations got settled by evening as placid winds
blew but the maestro unleashed another storm.
The Rahman avalanche hit the captive audience hard, mesmerising and carrying it
to the realms of ecstasy.
Once he got started, the soft-spoken, shy artiste was a transformed
man. In fact it was about this starting trouble that he was talking
about the previous day when he met journalists.
A. R. Rahman may be among the world’s 25 top-selling recording
artistes and the only one from India in that list, but he confessed
that he still gets butterflies in his stomach when he steps on to the
stage to perform. Yet this was not the reason for his rare appearances
on stage.
“Till I get on to the stage, it is terrifying. Thereafter the
situation improves,” he said. Accompanied by well-known drummer
Sivamani and singer Sadhana Sargam, he said the ground support always
helped the situation to improve: “As such I am scared of performing.
But once I start, the response from the public also helps to improve
things.”
He said the reason for his rare appearances on stage, especially in
North India, was his preoccupation with music at Panchathan, his
recording studio in Chennai. Also he is going to take up additional
work in teaching music to budding talents by setting up a music
conservatory in Chennai in June.
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/29/stories/2008032954520500.htm
