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Music is a balm. It soothes. It heals. It inspires. It sets you free. There’s nothing like listening to soft music in the silence of the night. When you let music slowly seep through and seize your being, you experience a beautiful magic; suddenly, you feel one with the universe. To music, with love.
Kamakshi Khurana and Vishala Khurana, sisters, are also the young founders of ‘The Sound Space’, an entrepreneurial venture that uses the power of sound in different forms to offer therapeutic treatment to people with different needs. In an interview, they share their musical journey that has striven to make a difference to many lives.
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Plenty of energy, vivacity and lots of songs. That’s what hits you first when you think of RJ-ing. Well, that’s true and yet, there’s more to it than fun too! I am happy to present an interview with RJ Pavitra, touching on her job as an RJ, the fun and serious aspects of her work and more.
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Music. How often we run to it like a child does to his mother! For many of us, music fills the creepy void that sometimes gobbles up our insides. And to be able to create that music, which more often than not, remains a soothing balm, is indeed a God-sent gift. Agam is one effort in this direction. My interview with Swaminathan Seetharaman, Agam’s band manager, as part of a special cover feature that I did for the first anniversary issue of my magazine, Spark.
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Suchitra Karthik Kumar is a playback singer who has some of the best foot-tapping Tamil numbers of recent years to her credit. Suchitra is also a popular Radio Jockey and anchors a three-hour morning show on Hello FM 106.4 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Apart from singing and RJ-ing, she does dubbing as well. In a quick chat, she talks about what fun means to her and what she enjoys doing!
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S. Sowmya is a popular and widely travelled Carnatic vocalist. She is a disciple of Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. S. Ramanathan as well as Smt. T. Muktha, of the legendary Brinda-Muktha duo. Sowmya is a double postgraduate (Master’s in Chemistry as well as Indian Music) and was a top-ranked scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the University of Madras. She discontinued her doctoral research program at IIT to concentrate on her music. S.Sowmya, talks about the qualities she expects in her students, what she has learnt from her revered Gurus and many more interesting aspects concerning music. Catch the conversation here.
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