Shreya Ghoshal 360º: ""GORI THERA GAANA BADA PYARA""

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

""GORI THERA GAANA BADA PYARA""

[[[[[[This is an interview with SHREYAGHOSHAL that came in Malayalam daily dated April 10^th 2011.I have translated it into English.Please bear my Grammer and Spelling mistakes...lol]]]]]]]]

After the Legendary singer Latha Mangeshkar , the sweetest voice India heard is from a Bengali beauty “SHREYA GHOSHAL” .Asha Bhosle praised Shreya as “INDIA’S PRIDE”. Within a short span she has conquered the whole world with her sweet voice .Not only in Bollywood , including Malayalam she has sung in many languages.

IN B/W THE TIGHT SCHEDULES OF BOLLYWOOD ,HOW YOU CAME TO SOUTH INDIAN CINEMA?

South Indian music composers are blessed personalities. Songs composed by Illayaraja sir,Rahman sir, Keeravani, M.Jayachandran, Alphonse are heart touching ones.If i have sung only in Bollywood i wouldn’t have enjoyed these .Beauty within music doesn’t have language barriers.....

HOW YOU GOT CLEAR DICTION OF MALAYALAM LANGUAGE?

OMG....!!This is the best compliment i can get from Malayalam industry. I will by-heart the lyrics and meaning of each word. Its only because of music directors help i can sung this fluently, that’s my belief. I have got many malayali friend in Mumbai but none is useful for this case,they don’t know properly the dictions.

YOUR FRIENDS IN MALAYALAM FILM INDUSTRY ?

Mamta Mohandas.I have sung for her. What a beauty! What a character she has got.

GOT 4 NATIONAL AWARDS IN THIS YOUNG AGE,AND MANY OTHER AWARDS...!!

This made me more simple and more responsible.

IN ONE DAY HOW MANY SONGS YOU WILL RECORD?

One day at least 1 song, will have to record songs from all languages. The truth is.. time is not in my hands.

SONG THAT TOUCHED YOUR HEART?THAT YOU LOVE TO HEAR ALL THE TIME...

Latha ji’s “Apki Nazrom Ne...”,every time I hear this i will dissolve like butter.What a MAGIC..!!.Like all my favourite singer is Latha ji.

PERSONALITY WITH WHOM YOU WISH TO SING?

Kishore Dada(Kishore Kumar),i hav a sadness that i was not able to sing with him.What a sound he has got...What a personality..!!

WHAT TYPE OF SONG YOU LOVED TO HEAR ALL THE TIME?

Rabindra sangeeth

FREE TIME ACTIVITIES...??

Tweeting, Listening to songs in my I pad ,Day Dreaming.....

HOBBY...??

Cooking.....”Come to Mumbai...wilL show you how good am at cooking”

FOOD YOU LOVE TO EAT..?

Regarding food am a typical Bengali girl. Fish & Rice. Bengali’s and Malayali’s are having same food style.

EVERGREEN MEMORIES...

Childhood at Rawatbhata.Its a place near Kotta in Rajasthan.Its completely different from other places in Rajasthan.

PERSONALITIES WHO HAS MADE IT INTO YOUR HEART..?

Father,Mother,Brother,Kalyan ji,Sanjay Leela Bansali

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Biography

The Early Years

Shreya Ghoshal was born on 12th March 1984 in Berhampore, West Bengal, India, to bengali parents, Sh. Bishwajit Ghoshal and Smt. Sarmistha Ghoshal. She spent her first three months of her life in her birth place in West Bengal, then she moved to a place called Rawatbhata near Kota, Rajasthan, where her father, who is an Electronics Engineer, was posted. She has spent first thirteen years of formative part of her life there and completed her schooling up to Eighth Standard, in Atomic Energy Central School, Rawatbhata.

Initiation of Musical Odyssey

Life at Rawatbhata was simple, pristine, unpolluted, far from madding rush of a city. There used to be cultural programmes and social gatherings very often. Her mother is a singer and both of her parents are very much culturally inclined and they were very much involved with all those cultural activities. During those activities, as a small child she picked up her first lessons of music. She used to hum the same songs with her immature words whatever her mother sang during rehearsals. It is during those days her potentials of singing was discovered by her parents.

At the age of 4, she started learning music, mainly Bengali songs, from her first Guru – her mother. She gave her first stage performance at their club’s annual function. At the age of 6, she started getting formal training in Hindustani Classical Music. She learnt Classical Hindustani Music from Rakesh Sharmaji of Kota, Shri Jayawardhan Bhatnagar, her school's music teacher and thereafter, from Mahesh Chandra Sharmaji of Kota. She got her intial exposure to hindi film songs and rajasthani folk from Shri Bhatnagar. She received training in playback singing from Padmashree Late Kalyanji Bhai at later stage. After shifting to Mumbai she continued her training in Classical Hindustani Music with Late Mukta Bhideji.

In Pursuit of her Dreamz

In year 1997 she moved to Mumbai with her family when her father got transferred there. She did further schooling meretoriously from Atomic Energy Central School-4 and Atomic Energy Junior College with Science. Considering difficulty in pursuing Science with anticipated career in Music, she switched to Arts, and completed her Graduation in Arts with English as Major from S.I.E.S College, Sion, Mumbai.

Milestone

1995 She won the All India Light Vocal Music Competition, New Delhi, organised by Sangam Kala Group, in Light Vocal group in sub-junior level. Eminent judges Kalyanji-Anandji and Pt.Rajan & Sajan Mishra judged her at various stages. Her first TV performance followed this. It was a programme called “Awaz Nayi Andaz Wohi” in EL TV. This was her first experience in studio recording.

1996 She was selected for 75th Children’s Special Episode of TVS Sa Re Ga Ma, which she won. Later on she won various other episodes of TVS Sa Re Ga Ma the last one being the Megafinal judged by exceptional panel of judges comprising of Ustat Vilayet Khan, Anil Biswasji, Girija Deviji, Pandit Ram Narain, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and Ustad Zakir Hussain.

1998 She started recording in regional languages (Marathi, Bengali, etc.).

2000 Sanjay Bhansaliji and music director Ismail Darbarji selected her for playbacking for Paro played by Aishwarya Rai, in DEVDAS.

2002 She was launched as playback singer with the release of DEVDAS music

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

""GORI THERA GAANA BADA PYARA""

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