Shankar Mahadevan and Zakir Hussain’s fusion band ‘Shakti’ lately bagged the Grammy’s award for ‘Finest World Music Album’. (Picture: shankar.mahadevan/Instagram)
The CNN-News18’s Rising Bharat Summit 2024 – noticed the presence of Shankar Mahadevan, Rakesh Chaurasia, V. Selvaganesh and Ganesh Rajagopalan.
The fourth version of the CNN-News18 marquee management conclave — Rising Bharat Summit 2024 — is being held in New Delhi on March 19-20. The Summit will witness Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivering his keynote deal with to our viewers. A number of outstanding names from the sector of politics, arts, company world, leisure and sports activities may even take part within the occasion.
The Summit will present a platform to discover and have fun India’s outstanding transformative journey through the years, whereas additionally acknowledging the immense potential that lies forward. On Day 1 of the summit, Singer and composer Shankar Mahadevan, flautist Rakesh Chaurasia, percussionist
V. Selvaganesh and violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan spoke about their Grammy-winning album.
India gained large on the Grammys this yr as Shankar Mahadevan and Zakir Hussain’s band Shakti bagged the Finest World Music Album award for ‘This Second’. The group additionally options guitarist John McLaughlin, percussionist V Selvaganesh and violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan. Shankar Mahadevan additionally gained the Music Legend Award for his excellent contribution to music on the News18 Showsha Reel awards 2024.
Opening up on how the album fell into place, Shankar Mahadevan mentioned, “The best way the album occurred was very superb. All of it occurred in the course of the peak of Covid. We’re a lot used to touring and doing 20 live shows in 30 days throughout America and throughout Europe that we had been getting withdrawal signs. So, we we thought we’ve got to do an album. And no one may transfer out of the home due to Covid. So the best way this album occurred was fully distant management. Zakir Bhai was from San Francisco, Selva-Ganesh from Chennai and Seattle, John ji was from Monaco and I used to be from Mumbai. We had been going up and down on the server, bars had been being exchanged, feedback, emails and mixes too. What a course of it was! However after we heard it, we mentioned we’ve cracked one thing.”
