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00:00Hi, this is Samina Shek here and with me right now I have the famous Hariharan sir.

00:04So join me as I welcome him only on Zoom.

00:07So a long career over the years and you have just made a niche for yourself.

00:13How difficult was it for you to be on this journey?

00:17Well, it was a struggle, I would say.

00:22It was a struggle to get identified, to establish my voice, my kind of singing.

00:31That was a struggle and it takes time, you know, like, I mean, people have to get used to it

00:37and they have to like it and they start loving it after that.

00:41So it took some years and it's been wonderful.

00:52I also have to ask you this, sir, and it's something which, of course, resonates with a lot of people

00:57that what made you get into the world of singing?

01:01It could have been some other art as well, but what made you choose in this world?

01:05I come from a family of musicians, my father, mother, they were musicians.

01:09And my first guru is my mother.

01:12She's a Kennautic singer.

01:13So in the house, they're listening to all the songs from my childhood.

01:19And that's just like, kind of like, you also chose the same profession in a way?

01:25No, no, I, see, basically we, everybody sings in our house and so never learnt music to become a singer

01:32or a playback singer or nothing, nothing, because I grew up in Bombay.

01:37I grew up in Matunga, very conservative kind of a place.

01:43And we had fun learning music and wanted to sing well because everybody sang well at home.

01:51But, you know, your Ghazal concerts, as I'm sure you're also aware of, that, you know, are popular.

01:57When the first time you went all out, you know, and performing, how nervous were you?

02:02And if you could share some memories around that, you know, how the experience was for you?

02:07Oh, yeah, of course.

02:08I mean, it was like singing and it was such an effort to be perfect.

02:14And then, I mean, after that, you felt you've just come out from a wrestling match or something like that.

02:21But then with time, you know, like, and when you evolve as an artist and when you're honing your talents

02:30and your talents becomes more sharper and things like that, it becomes easier, basically.

02:35But over the years also, sir, I have to ask you this.

02:38Music has also evolved.

02:39It has changed.

02:41And when I say that mediums have also come and still we kind of believe,

02:45and that's a firm belief of a lot of people, that what has been OG will always be an OG,

02:50the kind of mediums which has been used.

02:51Now, when I say that technology has advanced, social media has become a kind of, you know,

02:55where people are developing their own kind of music.

02:58That is AI, which is kind of, you know, taken center stage.

03:01What do you have to say?

03:02Does that kind of, you know, in a way, diminishes the kind of original music content is created versus now?

03:12Original music can never lose its value.

03:19Because basically anything which AI does or anybody does is based on original music.

03:26So, if you're original and if you give the content, you'll be there.

03:31Yeah.

03:31So, how it has been for you for blending musical styles, when I say so, Carnatic, Ghazal, Hindi music, you know,

03:39also singing for regional, you know, songs and all, and you have become very popular that side.

03:44How it has been blending different kind of music for you?

03:46See, I've been doing all kinds of music from my childhood.

03:53I grew up in a Carnatic classical family.

03:55So, I learned from my mom.

03:57And then I have been, I used to go to the school in the day.

04:02And I used, I am from Don Bosco.

04:04And we had a lot of English music there.

04:06So, I used to listen to it, sing, without even thinking, this is a different kind of music.

04:12And then come back in the evening, used to hear Bollywood music in Binaka, Geet Mala and all that.

04:19So, what was my advantage?

04:22I used to do all kinds of music.

04:24We thought feeling, aray, yeet to allag hai, wo to allag hai, yee kuch ne, same hai na, music hai.

04:29And we, and being, Bombay was a beautiful melting pot then.

04:34Even today, like, you know, so all kinds of languages, all kinds of culture.

04:38So, that, that what made my music.

04:46Five decades in the musical industry.

04:49What has been the key learning for you?

04:51And which was that one setback for you wherein you felt like, you know, that completely changed your career journey also in a good way?

04:58Actually, 2009, 2010, there was this feeling, abhi kya kare.

05:06You know, like, you know, you've, I've done film music, guzzles and this thing.

05:14And then there was a time when I had, I was introspecting myself, like kya kare and karke.

05:19And then I felt that I need to concentrate on compositions, basically, composing guzzles and all kinds of music and doing live concerts.

05:35Because all these years, I was busy running and recording songs.

05:40I didn't, I didn't even think of saying ki, humko itini shows karna hai otana.

05:45Whenever he used to come, he used to do it.

05:47But show business is a different, totally a different ballgame altogether.

05:52You know, like presenting yourself and the songs and things like that.

05:56So, that took me about a couple of years and then I stepped into it.

06:00That's interesting.

06:01So, before I let you go, Bhumi, you have to tell us something about your association with Bhumi.

06:05And Bhumi has brought some, like, different music.

06:07And at the same time, setting a stage like that for people out there, for the audience to connect with different kind of music and songs.

06:14What do you have to say about that?

06:14Sure.

06:15Bhumi is amazing for independent music.

06:19Because I think Salim Suleiman have been doing a great job all these years and they're growing from strength to strength, you know.

06:25And they've been always doing a good job in all their films which they did.

06:31And both of them are such wonderful people as I felt that whenever they collaborated with an artist, it became the artist's song.

06:40They give that importance to the artist and it's a oneness between the composer and the artist and the singer, basically, which I felt very good.