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KS Chithra opens up connected moving with AR Rahman.
There is simply a crushed wherefore AR Rahman, 1 of the modern time greats of Indian movie music, often collaborated with the legendary KS Chithra, who seemed to ever find a newer facet of her endowment portion singing for the composer. Their archetypal collaboration happened close successful Rahman’s blockbuster debut album, Roja. However, that wasn’t the archetypal enactment betwixt Rahman and Chithra. Reminiscing connected the archetypal clip she saw Rahman, Chithra said, “I saw him portion singing for Ilaiyaraaja sir. He was specified a tiny boy, a child. In fact, I was truly shocked to spot specified a idiosyncratic play music. It was a workplace in-charge who informed maine that helium was Dilip Kumar, the lad of RK Sekhar sir.”
In an enactment with O2 India, Chithra revealed that contempt gathering Rahman during galore recordings, some of them ne'er interacted owing to their reticent nature. “We ne'er spoke until Roja happened,” said Chithra, who holds the grounds for astir National Awards for pistillate singers. Talking astir the quality betwixt moving for Rahman and different composers, the vocalist said, “While moving with different euphony directors, we perceive the last mentation soon aft recording. However, with Rahman it was different. You get maximum liberty, you tin experimentation with expressions, improvisations, etc… But we tin perceive the last opus lone erstwhile it is released. I wouldn’t cognize which mentation of my opus would person made it to the last cut.”
As a singer, KS Chithra understands the endowment of the vocalist successful AR Rahman, and believes determination is thing magical astir his voice. “You know, immoderate songs dependable bully lone if helium sings them. Take, for instance, Mustafa Mustafa from Kadhalan. We tin lone ideate it successful his voice. One different opus that falls nether specified a class is Khwaja Mere Khwaja (Jodha Akbar). I respect him arsenic a vocalist also.”
Chithra, who has been witnessing the maturation of Rahman, close from his days arsenic Dilip Kumar, to the Oscars, and the dizzying heights of today, believes it is the quality broadside of Rahman that she admires the most. “He respects each artistes, singers, and musicians. He makes definite determination is designation for everyone’s work. He was the archetypal 1 to notation the names of his musicians connected the cassette and CD covers. He ever recognised his philharmonic family,” said Chithra, who revealed a alternatively absorbing facet astir Rahman that makes him the fable helium is.
“Say, helium records a instrumentalist for 1 song, and past uses a information of his enactment successful another. He ensures the instrumentalist gets paid for that different opus too. Sometimes, musicians person a cheque, and they person nary hint wherefore they are being compensated. It is lone erstwhile they scope retired to Rahman’s bureau they are told astir it,” said Chithra, who pointed retired that it is thing unimaginable successful the satellite of music. “All I tin bash is commune for him and his family, and anticipation that they are blessed abundantly.”
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