Playback singer Shaswat Singh
The lead voice of AR Rahman’s recently-released 99 Songs, Shashwat Singh on the lessons he learnt from the maestro
When AR Rahman wanted to check his voice out, nervousness got the better of Shashwat Singh and he messed it up.
The maestro asked him to try again. This time, his rendition of ‘You Raise Me Up’ won him appreciation, and a call from Rahman’s office to record ‘Wat Wat’ for the Hindi film
Tamasha (2015) a month later.
After
Mohenja Daro and ‘Ruby Ruby’ for
Sanju in 2018 – all Rahman’s compositions
Five years after
Tamasha, Shashwat’s five tracks from the recently-released Hindi film