MUMBAI: Multi-talented Raghav Sachar expressed his concern on the growing popularity of Bollywood music. He opined that the country has a lot of musical talent and its above time that people shift focus from bollywood to pop in the coming years.
In spite of working in bollywood, he said, “Indian music industry is Bollywood centric and it should change in the coming years. India has so much talent and I hope people listen more to pop than film music.”
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MUMBAI: Legendary singers like Mohammad Rafi, Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar and many more came alive with their songs, in the voice of versatile singer Rana Chatterji. He sang some 32 odd songs at 'Nazrana-Resonant Range of Rana' on 19 December organised by the so called music gemologist Manohar Iyer at the Yashwant Natya Mandir.
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BENGALURU: Indian cinema’s multi-faceted doyen SP Balasubrahmanyam will be performing at the ‘Jana Mana Jathre 2013’, a cultural extravaganza organized by the Rajajinagar Sports & Cultural Association. The loose meaning of Jana Mana Jathre is Peoples Cultural Festival in which all genres of arts and human expression including painting participate. Rajajinager is a suburb of Bengaluru.
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MUMBAI: Satellite radio company Sirius XM Radio has named president of sales and operations James E Meyer as interim chief executive officer, with immediate effect.
As per reports, the New York company has stated that its search committee is looking at candidates from within the company including Meyer, and outside the company to fill the CEO post on a permanent basis.
Meyer will also become a board member succeeding Mel Karmazin, who resigned as CEO and from Sirius’ board of ...
MUMBAI: Karbonn Mobiles has unveiled dual-SIM smartphone A30 in the Indian market.
The device features 5.9 inch TFT display, android 4.1 Ice Cream Sandwich, 1GHz dual-core processor, 8MP camera with LED flash on the rear, 1.3MP snapper in the front, WiFi, 3G and 2G, Bluetooth, microSD capacity up to 32GB and 2,500mAh battery.
The handset is also equipped with gesture mode, face detection, 3.5 mm jack and in-built KingSoft Office productivity suite.
The device is priced at...
MUMBAI: After reigning in the print and radio space down south, print major Matrubhumi group is all set to make its foray into the television space by launching two channels in early 2013.
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MUMBAI: As the government and broadcasters lobby for issues around the upcoming FM phase III auctions, the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) ministry has extended the last date of signing the Grant of Permission Agreement (GOPA) to 30 June 2013.
According to a notification by the ministry to the FM radio phase II operators, the operators who are desirous of migration to Phase-III regime, can now execute the GOPA by 30 June 2013. The last date for the signing the GOPA earlier was 31 December 2012.
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BENGALURU: Adamo The Bellus Goa has added another feather to its illustrious cap by becoming the official hospitality partner for Asia’s largest electronic music-n-dance festival, Sunburn 2012 (December 27-29) and unique live, original & alternative Indian music festival, Windsong 2012 (December 24-25) to be held in the “Ibiza of India”.
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MUMBAI: India’s private FM radio segment is expected to grow and generate revenue of around Rs 14 billion in 2012–13, with 245 private FM stations operating in 86 cities growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14 per cent annually, according to ‘Poised for Growth: FM radio in India’ latest study by Confederation of Indian Industry and Ernst & Young.
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MUMBAI: Fever 104 FM Mumbai, the fastest growing radio station in the city is once again giving an opportunity toMumbaikars to make it big in the Bollywood. After giving break to a talented singer to record a song in Neeraj Sreedhar’s studio, the radio station is now running a contest that will shortlist a person who will train in Anupam Kher’s prestigious acting school – Actor Prepares.
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