Guest guest Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Om Sai Ram "Mid Day" published an interview with singer Lata Mangeshkar by Subhash K Jha: 'The PM liked what he heard', 6 March 2004. The article is long and tells about singer Lata Mangeshkar who previously has performed Sai Baba bhajan. Below is an excerpt from the interview with Lata Mangeshkar. >You’ve just recorded an album based on the poetry of the prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee… > I’ll tell you how it happened. This project had come to me long back. Various people approached me saying that the Prime Minister wanted me to sing his poetry. I was hesitant since I wasn’t sure of these people’s credentials. >Then Jagjit Singhji sang the PM’s poems and was deeply appreciated. I was approached to sing with him. But I preferred to do it alone. I waited until I was sure I would do justice to the poems. I met the PM and asked him to select his poems for me. He told me to take whatever I liked from his 51 poems. >When a young composer called Mayuresh approached me to sing a Sai Baba bhajan I liked his self-confidence and suggested that he compose a tune for one of the PM’s poems. We selected six poems and in one of them I’ve just recited the lines...... The complete story: http://web.mid-day.com/entertainment/music/2004/march/78024.htm Namaste - Reet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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