*Rahman’s emotional tribute* *After the death of two of his revered icons – H Sridhar and Michael Jackson – within months, AR Rahman is planning a concert in tribute to their memory. *
Sridhar was a sound engineer, who died of cancer; and MJ was recently laid to rest. Chennai’s musical maestro has been in and out of the country working on the project that he is keeping under wraps. Due to his prior commitments, the composer will, however, not be a part of the MJ tribute ceremony being planned in Chennai by music director Praveen Mani. At the time of MJ’s death, Rahman had talked about his meeting with the global pop star at the Oscar ceremony in February. “MJ was concerned about contemporary developmental issues such as global warming, wars and their consequences. He asked me to compose a unity anthem on the lines of ‘We are the world’ for him. I nodded in awe.” Recently, there was also news that Rahman has planned a free concert in Australia to address the issue of racial indiscrimination in the country. This has been scheduled for January 10, 2010. Apart from this, his next big international venture has him teaming up with Mick Jagger, Kylie Minogue, Pussycat Dolls and Joss Stone for a new project he wants to produce. http://www.starboxoffice.com/newsDetails.aspx?xfile=2009/August/News_20090813_67 -- regards, Vithur
