Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.
I want to bring Indian music to the mainstream.
I trained in Hindustani, and then I went to music school.
I grew up listening to Hindi and Marathi songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale.
I grew up listening to Hindi music, ghazals and all.
Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.
Bollywood music is so international now, and our music has become global.
'My Country, My Music' is about bringing music in languages like Tamil, Telegu, Kannada, Malyalam, and Marathi together. It's about bringing musical genres together, different scenarios in which music is displayed in our country in one show.
