"Melody Queen Vijayaa Shankar Releases Maiden Pop Album ‘Teri Meri Raah’ In Mumbai after Rave
Reviews And Fans Galore"
Her first name means victory and the second one is similar to some of the most globally renowned Indian personalities from the world of music and singing. Meet the versatile Melody Queen Vijayaa Shankar, whose maiden pop album ‘Teri Meri Raah’ has won her critical acclaim as well as popular mass appeal.
In 'Teri Meri Raah', vivacious Vijayaa Shankar has sung nine memorable songs while the inimitable Lesle Lewis of ‘Colonial Cousins’ fame has composed music and produced the album, Lyrics are written by Rajesh Johri of ‘Sa Ni Dha Pa’ & ‘Pari Hu Main’ fame. And Promising Lyricist Ravi Basnet. The uniqueness of the album is its sound completely acoustic giving importance to the vocalists’ voice texture and melody. ‘Teri Meri Raah’ is a classical rock fusion that appeals to high-energy youngsters dancing with abandon. ‘Do Anjane’ is a romantic melody that will have young couples going all mushy-mushy. ‘Tu na jaane’ is sung in a unique Bosanova style. ‘Tere Bina’ is a soothing ballad that will remain etched in memory for a long long time. ‘Tu hi Tu hi’ based on Egyptian rhythm n style has a strange mystical influence that usually pervades trance music in the discs. ‘Aona Aona’ is a peppy dance track getting you all groovy. ‘Dekho main chal padi’ is all funk that is yuppie and peppy. ‘Jahan Main’ is another peppy no. The ‘Teri Meri’ unplugged version is also quite interesting and will have you humming away to glory.
In the video 'Teri Meri Raah' is about a girl's journey in love and how two strangers get attracted to each other, but both take a while to express. It deals with their meeting and separation. Finally, the girl going ahead and expresses her love for the boy.
The album is already creating a rage in Bangalore. The Title Track is fast catching up on the You Tube and Facebook and receiving rave reviews as of now available in Reliance time out in Specific Cities soon to be available in all leading Music Stores. Also it is available in I Tunes in Amazon and other Sites.
Several film personalities and music directors including stars such Tharun Chandra and director Prashanth Raj, Indrajit Lankesh and Gurukiran have appreciated the album. Shankar Mahadevan had personally appreciated the Album. The title track and 'Tu Na Jaane...' is mesmerising and is adored by the classes and masses. Vijayaa has sung several popular Kannada movie songs from Love Guru, Double Decker, Aaadu Aata Aadu and so on.
Vijayaa Shankar has sung over 500 jingles and songs in over 14 languages. She has sung for leading composers such as Leslie Lewis, Louis Banks, Shankar Mahadevan, Iliyarajaa and Vidya Sagar amongst others. She has also sung jingles composed by Salim Suleiman, Vishal Shekhar, Sameeruddin, Vipin Mishra and Ram Sampat. She has also sung compositions of Pritam in various regional languages. She has sung the theme track of the recently staged Broadway musical by Shruti Merchant by the name Taj Express, which had music by Monty Sharma of Saawariya fame. She has done playback for over 10 to 12 movies of which 2 Hindi under production; 4 Tamil songs under production. The film names include ‘Mazhai Vara Pogudu Sattensru Marudu Vanilai n Koppu'. She has also sung in Bangla with Shaan in movies such as ‘Prothom Bhalobasha n IPS Choudhury. The Kannada film songs include ‘Love Guru’ - a duet with Benny Dayal of Pappu Can’t Dance Saala’ and Gajini’ fame. She has sung a duet with Karthik of ‘Behka main behka’ of Gajini fame for ‘Double Decker’; a duet with Udit Narayan for the movie ‘Aadu Aata Aadu’; another duet with Kailash Kher for the movie ‘Dev’ under production. The film ‘Love Guru’ got her the ‘Akka’ awards held in New Jersey for the best promising new artiste of the year 2009-2010. She had also been a part of ‘Naada Vaibhavam’ a mega event held by the Art of living Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in February 2010. This presented her with an opportunity to sing songs with other prominent vocalists. She has sung in the new version of ‘Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’, which features Sonu Nigam, Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka amongst others. She also shared vocal space with Hariharan for the Nirma jingle. She has done duets with Javed Ali. She has also sung along with Kunal Ganjawala. She was a part of the classical symphony orchestra held by Padmasri Sri Lalgudi Jayraman trust for the music academy in Chennai. She has penned and composed corporate themes for Bajaj and Amway; and songs for children’s animation series. She speaks over 8 languages and even had also sunged songs in various languages like Sinhalese, Nepalese, etc...
For Further Information Contact Parul Chawla : 9833577407/ 9004136155/ 022-22926509
--
Picture N Kraft
--
Picture N Kraft
No comments:
Post a Comment