Anything new that I hear - anything that is challenging like in my journey of music. I am always a student of music - even now. That is when you have achieved excellence. The difference between the first prize and the second prize should be almost 10 steps. But you should not aim only for the first prize. My father used to always tell me that when you go and perform at a competition, you should aim for the first prize. And rigorous practice, focus, and perfection of the art. You should not think about what I am going to do and how I am going to make so much money? When you are learning music, you have to just learn. So if you get the correct person from whom you are learning, half the battle is won. She a teacher who has dedicated her entire life to teaching. Mahadevan: One thing that I did was - or it happened to me - was the teacher that I got (T.R.) Balamani. India So can you take me through some of the steps that you took in your musical journey? I don’t think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music. The other things that happen - you become a playback singer or you become a pop star or you have a successful release - are just derivatives of your musical knowledge. You are just hammering that into your system. You should learn music because you want to learn music, just follow it blindly with great perseverance and dedication. I don’t think this is the way you should do it. When they learn music they are already thinking about their first album. Now, kids have become a little calculating. When I used to learn music, I didn’t even think about it. Mahadevan: During our times - I’m sounding like an old man - but times have changed very drastically in the past 10 or 15 years. What were some of the choices that you made along the lines of this path? And what did you learn from those choices? India I think you have described the path very well. But I think it always helps if you follow the path the correct way. If you are well-read and you write something, there is a difference. And you will somehow stay on for a longer time because it is not superficial. And you are able to face any circumstances, any situation, any form of music. But I feel that if you learn music the hard way and you know what you are doing every step, you are a confident person. If people are talented, they can just sing. How do you want to perform this art form of music: whether you want to approach it the real hard way by knowing every single technical that is involved in a song? Why get into all that? Or you can just learn a few songs. But it all depends on what you want to do. And you can become extremely popular even without learning music.
Mahadevan: You can definitely become a professional. India Is there a difference between learning music the way you did almost like a vocation? And then turning it into a profession? What’s the difference? And my parents were very about of teaching me the proper Carnatic music in the proper way. And that’s how it started.īeing from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music. I think the decoding - to decode a melody, you know, and output it on the harmonium - was already there. So they started testing me with a few melodies to sing. My parents and my uncle felt a little intrigued by how this guy was playing. Obviously I didn’t know - I had never seen it - it was a harmonium. I saw this instrument and I just picked it up and I started playing it without knowing what the instrument was. When I was about four years old, I had gone to my uncle’s place down south. Mahadevan: At a very young age, actually. India Tell me about how you got started in music. It is just there with you as a companion whom you can talk to, interact with, think about, and create. And when you have music in your life you can never be lonely. Mahadevan: Music is - if you want me to describe it in one word - a friend.
India Let’s start with a very simple question. India Shankar, thank you so much for joining us today.
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