Top 10 Picks from K.K's Inventory

Krishnakumar Kunnath , popularly known as K.K or Kay Kay is a playback singer from Delhi. Before he got break into playback singing he sang more than 3500 jingles in 11 languages. He released his first album Pal with music composer  Leslie Lewis  for which he got the prestigious Screen award as best singer.His first bollywood song was 'Tadap Tadap Ke iss Dil se'  from the movie 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam' and it was well appreciated by music lover all over.
Till now he sang more than 500 songs in Hindi and 200 in regional languages.We have picked out 10 songs from the list of may hits he has given which still sounds refreshing and new:

Soul of IndiPop and Rock : Euphoria

Whenever we come across the term "Rock Band" the first thing which strikes our mind is some crazy,wild foreign group,but Indian bands too haven't fallen far behind the race.

The evolution of Rock Band in India dates back to 1988 when the first ever band was formed by Dr. Palash Sen and his friends in Delhi and they named it "Euphoria".

Jal - The Band

'JAL' is the leading pop rock band in India.It originated form Lahore in Pakistan.Initially the band consisted to two members,Goher Mumtaz who was the song writer,lead guitarist and vocalist of the band and Atif Aslam who was the vocalist.The first song from them was "Aadat" which created a sensation everywhere topping all the local music charts.This song was recorded in Meekal Hasan's studio and was made freely available on internet and this song became very popular and was the most downloaded Pakistani song in 2002.

Due to some differences between them Atif Aslam left the band and Goher Mumtaz then recruited Farhan Saeed (on vocals)and Aamir Sheraz(on base guitar). With the new line up Jal came out with there debut album "Aadat" in 2004.This was the best selling album of that year.In 2007 the band came with another album "Boond"which topped several music charts in Asia.The band won "MTV Asia Award for Favorite Artist India" in 2006.

Bhupen Hazarika - A gem to the Indian music

Bhupen Hazarika(1926-2011)

Dr. Bhupen Hazarika who was considered as uncrowned king of north-east india's culture world passed away on 5th of november,2011.He was known for the work he did,lets  have a look back on the life of this legendary singer.

He was born in the year 1926 in assam,and he did his inter in arts in Guwahati and to do his B.A he then moved to Banaras Hind University(BHU) in 1944 and M.A in political science in 1946.Then he moved to New York USA where he stayed for five years and completed his PhD in mass communication from Columbia university.
He began his career as a child actor in the second talkie film 'indramalati' in 1939.
He received President's award for best film maker thrice for 'Shakuntala(1960)','Pratidhwani(1964)','Loti Ghoti(1967)',which till date no other person in our film industry has won.He was also Chairman of Central Board of Film Censor  for 9 years till 1990.
The country bestowed its greatest honor to him by giving him Padmashree award in 1977. 

A brisk walk through Rehman's Life

A two-time winner of the Academy Award (Oscar), A. R. Rahman is popularly known as the man who has redefined contemporary Indian music. Hailed by Time magazine as the 'Mozart of Madras', Rahman, according to a BBC estimate, has sold more than 150 million copies of his work comprising of music from more than 100 film soundtracks and albums across over half a dozen languages, including landmark scores such as 'Roja', 'Bombay', Dil Se', 'Taal', 'Lagaan', 'Vandemataram' and more recently, 'Jodhaa Akbar', 'Delhi 6' and 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
Rahman pursued music as a career at a very young age and after assisting leading musicians in India went on to compose jingles and scores for popular Indian television features. He also obtained a degree in western classical music from the Trinity College of Music, London and set up his own in-house studio called Panchathan Record-Inn at Chennai. In 1991, noted film maker Mani Ratnam offered Rahman a movie called 'Roja' which was a run-away success and brought nationwide fame and acclaim to the composer. The movie also won Rahman the Indian National Award for the best music composer, the first time ever by a debutant. Since then, Rahman has gone on to win the National Award 3 more times, the most ever by any music composer.