MUMBAI: If the Ganesh festival is here, can the devotional albums be far behind?
More than 200 different albums launched by various labels, some new and many vintage, are currently lining music store racks across Mumbai. The voices behind the albums include newbies as well as stalwarts like Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Sonu Nigaam and Shreya Ghoshal, and the repertoire encompasses chants, shloks, bhajans and even remixes of popular Hindi film songs, modified with lyrics loaded with pi...
MUMBAI: 'Shanti Shanti', the Sanskrit rock band has come up with a new album, titled 'Veda', based on the oldest scripture of the world - the Vedas.
The band presented the first copy of the album to acclaimed Hindu leader and president of Universal Society of Hinduism Rajan Zed in Nevada.
The CD produced by Ganesha Publishing BMI contains shlokas (hymns) from all four Vedas-Rig-veda, Sama-veda, Atharva-veda, and Yajur-veda. With some shlokas being as old as 1,500 BCE, it took one year to complete extensive research and selection process for the CD.
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MUMBAI: T-Series Public Performance License (TPPL) president M M Satish has put in his papers at music company T-Series, with which he was associated for over last five years.
The anti-piracy crusader, who made headlines with his anti piracy measures as head of the PPL at the Indian Music Industry, and then as head of TPPL, is turning scriptwriter and producer for Hindi films. Satish will be taking up the position of CEO of a reputed entertainment company within a month.
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MUMBAI: Saregama India is hosting a music exhibition at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai (formerly, the Prince of Wales Museum). The exhibition aims to take visitors through the transformation of Indian music in the past 110 years. Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar inaugurated the exhibition on Friday. The exhibition will last till 30 September, 2008.
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