Kicking off the five-city India leg of his The Ultimate Tour today, Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams is set to serenade his fans in the country for the fifth time. In a bid to ensure that the proceedings of this leg are according to his tastes, Adams, we learn, had cherry-picked the artistes that would open his show in each of the cities.

Shyam Tallamraju, business head, Entertainment Network India Limited (ENIL) — the India organisers of the show — tells mid-day that the singer studied a series of profiles before zeroing in on the artistes. "The artiste [Adams] felt that Harshdeep Kaur, Aditi Singh Sharma, Abi Sampa and Threeory Band would be the ideal fit for his opening acts, since their music sensibilities are similar to his own. There was a fair amount of back and forth between the two teams before the decision was taken."