Musicality
It’s been 14 years since the legendary Ustad Allarakha passed away in early February and there’s not been a single day since, that his prodigious son Ustad Zakir Hussain hasn’t thought about him.
On his maiden trip to India in 2013, Jimmy Thackery managed to wow Mumbai with a tight, focused and fuss-free performance that showed that no matter where time has taken musical genres, the blues will always be at their core.
I sat with eyes transfixed on my guru Pt Hridaynath Mangeshkar as he sang the antara of a Marathi song he had been teaching me since two days. The process involved me repeating after him each line he sang, but for some reason I was unable to get one part of it. I was nine years old, raised in an environment of Carnatic classical music (where raga Malkaus was called Hindolam) and it had been my third class with the maestro.
Tunisian musician Emel Mathlouthi speaks about what it feels like to have her music inspire the Jasmine revolution, the power of songs and more in an exclusive chat.