<h6 dir="ltr">Story By Priyaanka Mathur</h6> <div dir="auto"> <div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="ltr">A 20 years old college going girl,who lands up singing for a Bollywood film, a YouTube sensation already,who' s crossed 350 + million v
I seriously took to music at the age of 15,it just happened that I met Himesh Reshamiya and sang in front of him, who suggested me to get formal vocal training. Eventually, I started learning western classical music in my initial years and now I'm undergoing Hindustani Classical Music training under Ankita Joshi. Even if you are really blessed with a great voice, some regular training is still needed, that takes you to that finer edge, I believe!
Well, I haven't thought much about pitching myself, it all just happened and I took assignments that came to me in the middle of my studies, as I'm still finishing my last year of graduation along with which I am pursuing my degree in business management and entrepreneurship.
Today's audience are very diverse and the masses in fact listen to all the genres of music, so I feel every genre has a scope for it and that's my analysis. Every artist sings a genre in ones own style and brings out something on their own in a particular genre and that's how the audience starts loving the rendition of an artist and the genre too.
I had no idea how different my voice sounded in terms of technical treatment given to each song be it in 'Ishtehar', 'Dilbar' or 'Ishare Tere'. When I render a song, I try using a lot of vocal try to sound different to produce different tones, so my technique from the very first song has been changing like using a head tone or falsetto and other techniques being trained in western Classical music, it helped me a lot in experimenting.
My song 'Gulabi Ankhe' Carpool Mashup with Sandesh Motwani got me some 55000 subscribers and that's like a huge number. I haven't generated anything from YouTube yet,because I cannot monetise on covers that I have done so far, since the rights are with the music labels or the artists who have sung the originals, but yes YouTube is good for original content.
I think social media has a wider reach, on all these platforms Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, one can create content and upload. Although I feel 70% is still television and the various reality shows and others, that are showcasing artists to a greater audience.