Darini Hariharan – true representation of India’s 21st century singers-special mention Sreelakshmi

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It gives such great pleasure to bring this super talented youngster to this feature. There not another singer on Smule Sing show the same maturity in singing at such young age. Darini is a very unique singer, versatile, she dare to make changes to the norm and add her own music into the very iconic songs and effectively bring interesting variations to her music. She is very popular with a very large following on Smule.  Without delay let us start knowing this singer more up close. She is a singer of few words. She doesn’t bother much to reply her collaborations, may be almost never expect her to reply to any of your joins. May be she will change.

Darini Hariharan is from TamilNadu. Her favorite singer is Shreya Ghoshal and her favorite singer from western music is Beyonce. Asked about her musical aspirations. She says she is always trying to improve on her music and singing abilities. She continued ” I am singing now and will be singing only for the love of doing it”  Nothing more to it. She come out very different unlike many that we came across. We knew her for almost a year now, followed her singing closely. Like many genius artists she says she always doubt her ability. So she says “I am not that good yet”. Asked about her training in Classical music , she says she learned lessons in classical music. Added her parents or anybody from the family have any music background.

A singer of few words. We like to show you guys this beautiful singer through her music. We are absolutely thrilled Darini accepted this invitation and it took a long time for us to schedule this. Sorry for the long wait. You can follow her here on her Instagram at the following link pasted below. Please follow this beautiful singer at her Smule profile  https://www.smule.com/daruVIdesi

She maintains a vibrant Insta page

https://www.instagram.com/darini_music/?hl=en

Also, see her YouTube page here bit.ly/33DIbPp

Let us start knowing Darini through her music here; Note her maturity and the approach to the songs she chooses to sing. She sings it in her own way, still stick to the melody and try to bring all the beautiful expressions. You will always find her enjoying every bit of her singing in these videos. Listen to this beautiful song originally sung by Shreya Ghoshal.

Neha Kakar song. This is Darini’s own version. Give a listen. Beautiful expressions and 100 % involvement.

This is one of her earlier videos. Her involvement in the song comes out perfectly conveyed in her singing always.

The following video was selected specifically to show the super collaborations Darini made with Kapil. Isque Bulava; We had featured Kapil’s singing along with Manjari’s feature. Almost every collaborations Darini made with Kapil is in perfect harmony; Kapil is a super singer beyond doubt.

Darini at her best, One of her earlier songs. Absolutely beautiful. It is beyond the expressions. Give a listen

Darini’s singing here with Charlie Puth is absolutely right on. Very tough to get that perfection. KUDOS

Humma Humma AR classic. Darini is experimenting, and not even so aware of the outcome but absolute genius.

Another super singing of a beautiful melody originally sung by Monali Takur and song is Moh Moh Ke dhage-female version with  Kapil; it is a beauty. ENJOY this.

We made this song Kannampoochi enada from an audio file of Darini, just to show how mature this young singer musically is to sound like that. Listen to this classic originally sung by Chithra. This one sounds almost like the original.

Hope you all enjoyed knowing this beautiful young singer up close as we know her through her music. Please keep reading about our second singer in the next section.

Special mention

Sreelakshmi Unnikrishnan

SnowL10 is a very poetic way for Sreelakshmi Unnikrishnan to represent her singing on Smule Sing. We came to know this singer not so long ago when our friends from Australia suggested her profile for a feature. Thanks for this help. We were looking for an appropriate singer to go along Darini on this feature.  When approached Sreelakshmi came out right professionally motivated realizing the importance of this. She was very doubtful about being new to Smule and not have lot of followers etc. But we noticed that she made a good effort to get Shabir’s Yayum contest and looked really good. We noticed much more something in her profile. Like  a lot of new generation of singers who bring a lot of western music influence into India’s music, SnowL also seem to experiment a lot. Earlier in India’s music scene not many serious classically trained singers attempted such singing due to a lot of dis-respect from the Pundits about the merits of the western music per se and lack of strong lyric content to bring the respect to be called as quality music. Western music used to be seen as noise and chaos of no rules. But it took many generations to change this concept and bring some respect to fusion singing. In an Epilogue that follows this feature we will cover India’s young singers whose singing is very much based in traditional music yet beautifully brought the western music to the ears of classically trained and thus gained a wide acceptance in recent years. This created a lot of super stars in India music and a singing career in this genre of music.

Sreelakshmi (SnowL) is basically from Kerala, but settled in Canada, Ottawa. Asked about her training in classical music, she said “I am trained in Carnatic music had been actively learning through her adult age. Asked about the influence of Western music in her singing she said “Since I am educated abroad, her music is largely influenced by western style of singing. She added quickly” yet I try to develop my skills in both styles of western and India music”. She like singing semi-classical songs, but would definitely like to try western style Rock music. She says from the India music, Chithra is her favorite singer and among the music director nobody other than A.R. Rahman (very understandably the musician who experimented extensively the world music to India’s traditional ragas).  And then she surprised us by saying she like old Malayalam classics? We haven’t heard her singing them yet; but that would be great to see old Malayalam songs with that western touch and mixes.

Asked about her idols in western music , more than a particular singer or group she like a good song that can capture her heart take prominence. SnowL like rock music and the reason behind it is the way the lyrics convey very strong messages  – Rise against (it is an American punk rock band, their 2017 release of single called Violence have lyrics said to be inspired by the 2016 US presidential election. Lead artists explanation of the name Violence is here ); Slipknot (OMG it is an American heavy metal band) again a very attention grabbing imagery with aggressive music style, and energetic and chaotic shows ( none like India music). and then she put her third rock band ACDC (personal favorite). ACDC is a hard rock/blues rock band (heavy metal style) ( a lot of history behind this band) with Billboard top albums. All these really surprised us hearing from a mildly mannered singer like Sreelakshmi. One should dream big and there is nothing impossible in this world. We love this young singer and her dreams of singing Rock. Way to go.
She continued to describe her music where she says language is not a barrier she can sing any language but music remain the same. She says in order for her to sing she need to like the song and can not sing for the sake of entertaining others.

SnowL had a good experience while visiting India to form a small band with friends performed for cable TV channel Asianet in a reality show. It was such small efforts that formed a singer of uniqueness we see today. Let us listen to her singing here with out dealy.

Here Snow mix Aalap in the beginning into the Rihanna version of Stay. Reminds SnowL voice and style to Grammy winner “Anoushka Shankar” (Ravi Shankar’s daughter) with that touch of India’s singing style into western music singing. Beautiful vocals.

A yet another beautiful video and singing. The song is Christina Perri’s Thousand Years mixed by her with own innovation and real talent and the video is absolutely beautiful, very personal and right on with up close and it is all about her singing the song and the eastern melody mixed into it is so well done. One small critique is her falsetto transitions can be improved a lot.

We thought it is appropriate to add this video of Sachin Sachu, who recently was one of the singer chosen for the Yayum contest by Shabir to screen for his future music projects.

Snow’s collaborations  with Nick are most watched of her videos. Unfortunately this video have some license issues. So one may will be forced to play it on YouTube itself.

Snow here singing with another Shabir’s pick for the “Yayum contest”. Snow prove she simply superb singing straight Malayalam songs here.

This song she probably proves her ability to sing any tough songs of any complexity. Note her absolute breath control and indeed a superb singing of a tough song.  A lot to be proud of here.

We truly hope you all enjoyed reading about both these singers of finest singing abilities and prospects of developing a career in music. Please write to us if you agree with this feature. Show support to this blog by following us.

ANECDOTE:

Young generation singers -a melting pot of India’s Rich Music traditions with western styles

In this anecdote we are going to discuss some changing trends in India’s music. The two singers in this feature are true representation of that youngster in India who listen to any music that sounds good to them and will innovate those influences into their singing. They are rebels, but will walk that path many haven’t gone or dared to go. They knew the risks. But talent and mettle make their singing widely accepted throughout the continent. We as usual is going to use the power videos to go through this experience.

Vidya Vox

We are very sure this video will go off-line since she is very sensitive about having her videos embeded elsewhere. So if this video is not here go here. https://www.youtube.com/user/VidyaVox.

She is the most sensational singer who recently created a successful career on her youtube channel by creating beautiful music where she invented ways to use traditional unique regional singing styles into her music. See the dance step used here is the typical ‘velichapadu’ movement with his sword in the hand. Very beautiful singer with tremendous respect from us for finding her roots no matter what style of singing that she adopted.

Shirley Setia

Shirley is phenomenal with her success even have Atif to sing with her (All Atif fans here, he is a singer from heaven). Enjoy this Shirley song with him.

Siddharth Slathia

Awesome videos of retro type singing. But he is not typically of any contribution to the traditional styles. But some of the expressions he try to bring to the old Hindi songs are right from some Ghazal singing styles.

Shraddha Sharma

She is the singer with a guitar and beautiful singing to add to it. But her love for guitar is so addictive to anybody listen to her singing. Watch this beautiful video here.

Jonitha Gandhi

One of the most melodious western style music mixed with India’s music singer. Very innovative; Exceptionally talented singer. May be the best singing voice among the new age singers. Most of her videos are out of this world beautiful and melodious. Big fans here.

Sanah Moidutty

We had added Sanah’s videos before in a feature with Vimal. She is one the most successful singer apart from Vidya Vox from Kerala with a great talent who produces very innovative song videos; sure you all will be hooked to her YouTube channel for hours in a row once you hear her, it is some magic in that voice.

END NOTES

This feature was made possible by a constant participation of SnowL and her hard work in a short time given to her hope paid off here. We truly express thanks to her for all her  efforts. In this context we also want to say a big thanks to Roshan (RJ) and Akhilesh Udenia both friends of the blog from Australia regularly write to us and help screen so many profiles and give feed back to us. It is a great help and we truly appreciate all the help for their time and help. Australia readers are very special for us. Next to India, US, Canada and UK our biggest readership is from Australia. Thanks all our dearest friends from the Australian continent for a huge support and inspiring words. We have  a story to tell about another Australian couple who wrote to us, who themselves are musicians, after reading our features about music from India, decided to visit North India to learn more about Hindustani Gharanas. Such a humbling experience. Thank you all. It is your blog, you want it take part in this.