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'Today's talent better equipped'
Updated On: 02 November, 2020 07:26 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
shunning the notion that music is a dying art, Shankar Mahadevan, Ustad Zakir Hussain discuss how teaching methods must be tweaked
Shankar Mahadevan and Ustad Zakir Hussai
Shankar Mahadevan is unusually cheerful at 9 am as he awaits this interaction with San Francisco-based Ustad Zakir Hussain. The veteran has collaborated with the tabla maestro frequently, but he speaks of him as affectionately as he did when urging a friend to facilitate their introduction, 30 years ago. Hussain, on his part, appreciates Mahadevan's laudable journey, fittingly opening this chat with...
Hussain: You didn't begin your career as a musician. When you did decide to be one, did you have a vision that this [success] would become your reality?
Mahadevan: I belong to a middle-class south Indian family. We believed that we should either study engineering, or medicine. My family never imagined that a career could be made in music. I was a successful engineer. In fact, my passport was with a company [for immigration]. Had things gone in that direction, I would've been next to you [in San Francisco], working with [a prominent tech company] developing software. I told my boss I wanted to change my career. He thought I was crazy. But he didn't know that I would sing, on and off, and that I was busy in the world of advertising too [creating jingles].
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