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@ShilpaRaoLive | The Music Podcast: Journey, Vocal Techniques, Musical Influences, Bollywood

#TheMusicPodcast #ShilpaRao #NewEpisode #Bollywood #Podcast Check out the latest episode of THE MUSIC PODCAST with Tarsame Mittal featuring one of the most versatile and celebrated artists of the country, Shilpa Rao, as she sheds light on some of the most intricate details and vocal techniques, her Bollywood journey so far, independent music, most memorable collaborations and so much more. Don’t miss this episode! Shilpa’s Socials: YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ShilpaRaoLive IG: https://www.instagram.com/shilparao/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialShilpaRao/ X: https://x.com/shilparao11?t=ReswBPESO55_D_yN0rneUg&s=09 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/19LIHDDSHBD5NyYHI3gpzB?si=oWdcZRJgRn2cKD5oCEgsmg _ Listen to this episode with Shilpa on all leading audio streaming channels! _ EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode of The Music Podcast, we dive into the world of Bollywood with the incredibly talented artist, Shilpa Rao. We explore her journey in the commercial space of Bollywood, the intricate process of creating songs for films, and the significance of vocal variations and practice. Shilpa shares her memorable collaborations with renowned composers like Amit Trivedi, Salim-Sulaiman, and Sachin-Jigar, offering insights into her vocal techniques and the art of bringing finesse to her performances. She also discusses her musical influences, including Hariharan ji, and her love for ghazals and classical music. Shilpa's enthusiasm for collaborating with new artists and composers shines through as she encourages them to share their work with her. Tune in to discover more about her fascinating musical journey! Show some love! Hit the Like, Share, and Subscribe buttons for The Music Podcast! Your thoughts matter, drop them in the comments. Share your Wishlist for upcoming guests or the burning questions you'd like your favourite artist to answer. Connect with us at themusicpodcast01@gmail.com. Your feedback makes our podcast journey even more exciting! _ EPISODE CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Glimpses 01:43 - Introduction 02:24 - 'Real' Shilpa Rao 03:32 - Meeting Hariharan ji 04:22 - Advice from Shankar Mahadevan & meeting Mithoon 05:04 - Singing Ad Jingles 05:56 - Career Navigation 07:35 - Jack of all Trades 08:48 - Vocal Training 17:19 - Importance of 'Listening' 18:57 - 'Art is subjective' 22:38 - Spirituality 23:28 - 'Importance of Expressing' through music 24:24 - All about 'Ghazals' 28:01 - Her Current Projects 28:39 - Independent Music? 29:41 - How to get in touch with Shilpa Rao! 32:58 - Memorable Recordings 34:04 - Beyond Bollywood... 35:26 - Live Shows! 37:42 - Important people from her journey 40:06 - Friends from the Industry 41:17 - Her Playlist! 43:14 - About her memorable collaborations with... 48:39 - Handling Criticism 49:08 - Music Business 52:41 - Questions Should/Shouldn't Ask Shilpa 54:12 - "Do Nothing" 55:16 - Advice to the Industry 58:26 - Memes! 59:21 - Most Difficult Decision 01:00:25 - More about Shilpa Rao! 01:02:46 - Turning Points in Life 01:05:44 - Travel & Food 01:09:52 - An Embarrassing Moment! 01:11:46 - Take on AI 01:12:44 - Her Firsts.. 01:14:06 - #AskTheGuest 01:25:43 – In Conclusion.. 01:27:21 - Change in the Industry 01:28:21 - Her Legacy 01:29:43 - Thank You! #therealmusicpodcast #Thatsreal #TMP _ Stay tuned for the next episode of 'The Music Podcast'! 🎧 We've got another exciting conversation lined up for you! Don't miss it! _ Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: The Music Podcast YT Channel – https://www.youtube.com/@_TheMusicPodcast_ YT Shorts Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/@_TheMusicPodcast_/shorts _ Host - Tarsame Mittal Guest – Shilpa Rao Her Manager – Girish Dias Audio Credits: Dialogue Editor, Mix and Master by Farhan Shaikh at Chordfather Productions Audio Post Production Studio - Chordfather Productions Producer - Vinita Sabberwal Business Head - Dimple Mehta THE CREW – CONTENT TEAM - Abhineet Mandal, Janice Fernandes, Fahiyan Hussain Head of Production – Sahil Choubey Post Production - Srinivas Rao, Ashutosh Surendra Kharunkar, Piyush Rajput Subtitling - Zibanka Researcher - Aastha Gupta SHOOT TEAM – D.O.P – Deepak Rai Sound – Akhilesh Singh Make Up - Mohsin Ali Lights - Famous Lights Camera: Video Plus Camera Attendant: Ujjwal Loy Lightmen: Mithun Sarkar BTS: Ramesh Yadav #themusicpodcast #tmp

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it's a very big misconception people are born with voices to create a Wholesome Way of singing it's not just technique it's also we stop ourselves from being expressive I was pretty much collaborating with everybody that I wanted to Kali I I I love his music Ag and Par we've done something with I believe we did C Studio we did even Anka shank yellow di everyone is different the way Vishal Cher work is very different from pram how pram works is very different from ran Sab so every person is diffe
rent with pretam I I have learned one thing relentlessness he doesn't give up even if it's like one little spe so I've learned that patience from him it it feels like home with them you'll be taken care of that's not everything this is V's favorite how do you send a rose to the Moon gulab jamon just remove the fear of it will not work that fear is holding you back from Limitless things that you can do hi friends the music podcast one of the most unique voices of our please [Laughter] welcome wel
come to thecast thank you okay including your fans family husband manager team everybody has a perspective or image of who sharo is H okay H your parents as well everybody but who's the real sh you actually what's what's no I I think I think you uh changing keep changing change I think you evolve more true so even acknowledging the fact that what I thought was wrong it's a good sign so true so you keep finding [Music] yourselves someone who wants to sleep and eat in peace that's a good thing yes
and that's when you played him and he had uh suggested you to sing and he was really happy correct that's how it started he said no I I think then it's not what you say but how you say it someone like him that that I have admired and and I really love it's coming from someone who's uh who has that wisdom that knowledge so I should take it seriously so then I started taking it seriously and then when did the first thing happened when mitun met you in college or something like that in Bombay yeah
so Bombay Shankar sir had you know I think that was the best advice said first start with bics and uh which which was the right thing to do for me and I started doing Jingles started doing one word one line Char l then then then all of these songs happened yeah at purple ha studio I took num compos and then I used to call people and boo gave me my first jingle that's how it started that's yes by myself and how old were you 17 18 maybe 18 18ish when I moved so huh soci no Noob yes what kept you
going that you did it yourself you reached out to people you met people what's that magic which keeps you going to do all these things and finally uh find the way there are two things that you need to separate bus you'll be happier correct for me there some people that I really wanted to work with Shankar sir uh mitun pram V so the one thing that I would always go and tell them is don't don't give me the job but I want an audition at least let me try the song which I even say now I sing it it do
esn't work you thrash it but I need to be on the mic and sing it so I think that probably worked that is the only thing limited but you have a unique positioning of yourself as an artist Pakistan collaborations you do you know a bit of everything is it something which you consciously do or it is something which has happened to you what is the [Music] consciously I I chase good music something that I that that's the only thing like even now if someone wants to do a song I will just say please sen
d the song to me connection feel while I do it it it could be someone's first song it could be someone's 100th song doesn't matter and I like to be a part of a song that makes you experience something music art and if it doesn't you know change your calmness to turmoil or turmoil to calmness then there's no point in doing it so at least give someone that experience when you're when you're singing or you're making the song or something so I love to be a part of something like that espcially sing
what do you does what are the things which you do so people always feel that pict that's the that's the picture of Ras but that's that's not what it is uh it is a part of it but not everything because you sing with with your mind you sing with your brain with your ears with your eyes with your your nose your throat everything your lungs it's it's it's it's everything and I think in his for meally so for me if I have to learn something I listen to it for days for weeks for months sometimes and uh
people go to gym so they'll understand this better so you you go to the gym you have a Target I need to be fit or I need to lose this weight or whatever the case is so I have to lose 10 kilos the first day you go to the gym and come back obviously there's no there's no change the next week the next month you see some difference but why are you still going to the gym because you have that belief achievable correct in the same way Ry is like that climbing the mountain it's not going to show resul
ts that same day or the next day or the next week but one day it will show so so it has to be twofold you have to first do R in your mind understand what you're doing and then execute it so it's always 95% listening and 5% singing consistency is very important important yes and his voice didn't Ed to be like this it stands out very different from the I was standing out of the class most of the time I'm loving it but but yeah I when I met and I used to feel very disappointed with myself no one ta
lks about my voice because obviously there's nothing unique about it so I used to come back home and I used to copy male voices before dad used to come from office I used to try and do that [Music] sing singers for example sh this is a combination of many sounds that she's putting together to create that one line and I used to find it very intriguing I used to hear her or if I listen to Sting you know I I would I would feel okay and and I would try to emulate it as Indian classical music exactly
is the first step but again you have to make it your own so thankfully High School you're not doing much in life any which way so I had a lot of time to just practice practice and try and make a tone it is not it's it's a very big misconception people are born with voices and to to to create a whole Wholesome Way of singing it's not just technique it's also aesthetic aesthetic is a very very important part of your musicthe influences attention to detail aesthetic comes from what you intend to d
o correct there are many aspects of singing for example mean mean is a very beautiful aspect of singing gamak sapat uh Katka these are very very important tools that you can use to create if it is comfortable uh for example K is uh sh that drop is actually a kka or for example this is a [Music] me so this is this is called like if I mean you you talk to someone and someone stuck on that one word now oh it's fabulous it's fabulous it's fabulous it's amazing it's amazing then then then that's the
only one word you will use but there are many things that you can use to describe something so this is vocabulary music vocabulary as a vocalist and if you start working on it your your vocals will have the the range of so many things that you can do because you'll be you'll be expressing it differently true so sing but the more if you use your voice as an instrument that choice has also be done right correct correct it's not that music is changing every 3 four months so you keep you keep doing
new things again uh when when you listen to different vocalist important kids who come to me and ask me so how much music are you listening to and do you stop yourself from listening to music it's it's you should listen to a lot of music because there are so many people doing so many things and and it's so exciting to to how how what what was he going through in his mind when he was when he did this it's it's a very nice question to to to understand that what's happening inside his his or her he
ad that they did this so how how will you ask that question if you've not heard music true to and then you build on that aesthetic you build on your Technique you build on your feeling you build in your I mean I'm I'm still trying to figure more things I'm still learning I'm still very curious too action is the same in the case of music me if I'm wrong is that what you want to say that too and again art subjective obviously uh you you cannot put it down in words you can only put it into expressi
ons and and and maybe colors or or or or images that come to your mind you go into a world of your own correct what are your mental images I think you need to let yourself go and you need to let your thoughts take over I think it's very important for for you to experience that feeling and and then go and sing but if you don't do that when you are by yourself how will you do it in the studio so it's very important to true sit and and and to to sound effortless you have to make more effort those d
ays when you are humble then I'm doing nothing you feel that going on stage traveling uh recording are the important days but actually the days that are important you're actually preparing yourself those are more important days actually it's very simple it's very deep deep meaning correct yeah so this answers all the questions which people keep asking I think I think the most dangerous and and and the most fierce thing that you can be facing are your own thoughts actually so try and sit with the
m it's it's tough to be in a room with them without anything else and if you can do that very often I think I think people should talk to themselves every day you do that yeah and you meditate as well I keep ranting I keep ranting uh you know having that tennis in my head about thoughts I think I think it's a it's a good way to have a conversation with yourself it's it's a very thin you never know it's a very thin line but do talk to yourself I feel it's a good thing so are you very spiritually
aligned as well like you practice spiritualism something like that I I I think the the the most spiritual thing is love and it's it's all around us it's it's it's inside you how how how is that not so visible it's it's everywhere you're walking on the street someone stranger you smiled that person smiled back I think that's love correct and you you like you said you're looking at a tree and there's a yeah there's a bird that's love true you eat food with with people that you are close to that's
love I think food is such presence of love nature is a presence of Love yeah your kids how how can you how can you not believe in that of course there is [Music] will not be affected I will not be deterred I will be strong I will be this I'll be that why please be be express yourself yeah I think we stop ourselves from being expressive that's why my father would say there's no shame there's no embarrassment in life please express yourself it's important to express yourself H because I I heard Me
d when I was what 10 11 years old and the biggest and the best love affair of my life yeah there's so much there's so much to listen to the thing is that what is the relevance of Indian classical music oraz or t or ktic music what is the relevance of it I know it's a very valid question kids might ask but the point is that if I would not have learned that the little beautifications that I do in the song that would never have happened correct so be concept just as it influences so that's very imp
ortant for I would love to yeah please reach out please there are so many poets that are there who have passed on who are still writing who are still creating it's always uh nice to listen to something the singer comes second always that means them first the PO is the is the highest the singer is always only expressing that and that is why is the king because he's expressed that only and that is what uh I I I come from that school of thought that so if someone's doing a recital of just gz I woul
d love to hear it so anyone who's doing it or please please let me know I I genuinely wish composers LC collor that's what music is all about and if I ask you currently I mean something which you can talk up to about currently we had great three jam on on fighter with Sid and Vishal Shar Kumar paji we' just we've been just doing that for for the past three years so yeah so there there's some indie stuff also happening and do you also compose or write or do anything else apart from singing or you
focus and yeah movies are your first love but I was pretty much collaborating with everybody that I uh wanted to for example mus but then I I love his music we we collaborated with that we we did something with ag and parika we've done something with I believe we did Coke Studio we did uh even Anushka Shankar uh yellow diary I think there's so many people that you can make music with like time but it's a fun thing to do yeah true and and that's the best way to make friends also if you make a so
ng together correct you're friends to upcoming comp upcoming composer but now he's a mainstream composer he's doing really you know actually doing really really good right upcoming for them it would be a dream to work with Shar it's a dream for me also to work with them how do how can they work with you just send me the song okay and see there are there are some common problems of these composers which they have a sometimes they don't have a project that's fine sorry open to that most of the tim
e I don't even know what I'm singing for and I I enjoy not knowing are you open to those kind of collaboration obviously if you like the song you have to believe the only thing the only question is that if I like the song If something that I connect with the rest is very workable things you'll be flooded with songs I'm telling you I I would love to be in that situation and I I I do get these songs on on on my on my DMs or or or WhatsApp and and I definitely make it a point to listen to everythin
g and I'm very honestly saying that but connect I don't think I I I jelled with it so I'm so sorry but then but it it's it's it's important to take that time and listen to it in a good mind good good head space and and give them a reply I'm really happy you're saying it because correct there so many songs that my first scratch wasani to shantu Sir had given me the song and he told me this is singing But Go and sing it so so many people have done this for us and it's it's but natural to uh and yo
u're doing it for music not not for someone you're doing it for music so yeah and the best way to reach out to you for these people is to DM you without DM there's no problem people even WhatsApp me the songs that's that's totally fine so which is the most memorable recording experience for you you should remember there there are many but kalank comes very very strong I signed for three months three months stop yeah okay and first day amab was there and Rec and we finished the song and I and ste
pped out I said please play the song from start to end I just so was listening to it and I just I just realized that this is what we came here to do it was never about that paycheck it was never about the popularity it was never about the views it was never about the numbers it was always about coming to the studio creating a new song from scratch from a blank piece of paper and that happiness that you get that's it wow there's no difference every everything that you do sh for you practice there
is no difference you're saying that the for you the process is not different it's just it's for different thing but like I said you're recording the song any way it's not yours so why to bother just just do your thing right originally or is it any different from how we work in Bollywood the system or everyone is different the way Vishal Cher work is very different from pretam how pram works is very different from rman Sab how rman Sab works is very different from anod so every person is differe
nt and you do a lot of live shows yeah you remember any show or experience which is worth mentioning to your fans and viewers that this live experience uh is a memorable one for you because that that person's involvement was time through their eyes is so so high it is such a great energy that it doesn't matter you just the whole the whole concert is is is is just you're just looking at that one spot but yes once you hit that go button it's as if nothing has happened it it just feels that nothing
matters anymore the only thing that matters is that connection that you have with people and you suddenly realize that this is what uh everything was coming to this point correct correct and you have any any special ritual before the live shows when you start when you perform I like to keep it light backstage sit with my boys and like just chill chill I think actually we should call this podcast just chill with chilar because uh that's the Crux I'm getting that listen life is all about to just
chill don't take too much of stress you know just chill you know stress correct I'm not saying like I said B how to better yourself that's a good stress to have that's a good problem to that's a good problem to have at least you want to do better there's another version of you that you're chasing it's it's a good thing to do correct so and journey who do you think are the most important people uh in your journey there are many people and more than the music that they taught me I mean and then yo
u can you can you can feel it in their presence being a good person is very important I I still remember sidhar Anand Vish shakhar the first time we were recording and uh what and they called me and I realized I realize now basic human respect it should not depend on whether someone has done something or not and that they made me realize and feel from day one so all these people have taught me like like Bal sir oh my God that that Hospitality that Mei is so important these are some things that w
e tend to forget because there's so much happening and it becomes like a job uh with pretam I I have learned one thing uh relentlessness he doesn't give up even if it's like one little spec change he will try and uh make it better so I've learned that patience from him so much he can he can work on a song Forever yeah as many times as needed and that I learned from him because the first few songs I sang for Pam didn't work only it didn't even make it from the recording to the release so it reall
y calms you down and you start thinking and that patience I learned from him so all these people teach you different things and and they are very important to me here who are your friends in the music industry I've been very lucky that I've worked with all these people and I can say that they are my friends amitab is is such a such a close friend I I mean I'm proud to say that even even pretam he has so many questions to ask you toand I love that I I curious I I I love that about him so shakar V
ishal mitun I think I think these are some people that I'm very I I can say very proudly shuti Pak I mean she's like a what do you call it buy my dad call us nut and Bol so yeah I mean these are some some people that I can be myself with so yeah and what's your playlist like everything it's it's a big mix like I was saying that when I was in school I I was listening to sting and shade and then Eagles and Lead Zeppelin Medi sa Amir KH sa nikil banerji pit G bis sa Bon IA Kendrick Lamar everything
and any contemporary singers or artists you look you listen to contemporary recently West very conty yes yeah okay or uh and have you come across any Talent [Music] recently uh this person is a good one the one thing I didn't know about Tanish is that he has this huge love for listening to music like I do and I recently found that out and we have a very similar love for South American Music so I'm like hoping to hear that side of his music yeah if you want to what is your favorite collab really
I'm say I think I think he human error is the whole point of us Perfection is so boring Perfection is overrated any which ways no it's it's it's bad for people correct being perfect all the time being happy all the time it's a very dangerous concept correct so so we both love that human error V Sher it it feels like home with them it feels like uh you'll be taken care of you know yeah you're in a very you're you're in a very good space but you feel so at home very safe and I don't know and I ta
lk about everything and uh it was one room where you know they all sit and chat and that room was full ofab DDS and then un is just coming home I that is my first meeting with with p and he's he's original I think he's he's like full real we walked in Gul and it was like correct wow mitun mitun is what and and uh you ask like is this lineing fine sha you take your time you get comfortable you let me know it's it's it's it's a it's it's actually tough to uh judge because usually facial expression
s so you wait for that but he's so stoic he's so calm so it's tough to judge but yeah he knows what he's his process is also he writes a line then ask you to sing sometimes no no he's it's a jam correct it's a jam yeah you had worked with him D is fun he's just no no no it's fine he's he's he's very spontaneous i i Shankar s also he records so fast fast so fast super talented to fall in I got it I got that but sir one more if you ask me one more I'll cancel the song so I I I feel that uh recordi
ng with him is is is you have to be very very spontaneous about it yeah yeah he's he's he's there when he's not even there like even when you know his his presence is always there it's it's it's a very different uh aura that he has mm Kim sir I love that man I love that man we again have you watched this film you watch that film watch this watch that we keep doing that because he's very strict and uh you know right so yeah it it was a very uh scary experience but but then yeah uh I'm I'm just ho
nored that I sang his song yeah soci criticism negative comments I live with four critics in my house my mom my dad my brother and my husband rates the worst critics so the there's no problem handling criticism at all and how do you deal with rejections I've had more rejections than approval so no problem okay bus conversation currently social media streaming YouTube how much money anybody can make so on Spotify uh you have 20 million monthly listeners more than that actually 21 or 22 something
like that which which is 2 CR people is that good yeah it's a very good number uh I do not know exact terminology but I can tell you you are definitely among the top five six female voices in the country who has that number or to it's a very very good number you know you are really lucky and peaceful okay I'm already jealous of you I wish everybody is able to do that because how can you put a number to someone who's listening to and after 20 years also he's still listening to that how do you put
a number or how do you put a true and uh so when it was released it was 20122 correct and uh we made that song with so much love be pretam amitab arjit me Amir Amir sir the whole team we had so much love that was put into it and for whatever reason the the song was released and and it took its own time to find its way it became very popular much after the release and numbers uh that's not everything true or or uh it was it was not that yes you know it was not that feeling it was like you you yo
ur your heart became bigger it your your arms became wider to hug people better I think that's the feeling that I'm talking about that now if I stand on stage and someone calls or or or wants to listen to that it it's coming from the heart you can't put a number to it that's the best way to think about it honestly sometimes you get iritated please tell me about your [Music] journey and I always end up saying or because I came to Bombay by train so I I I I feel that yeah these are these are very
generic questions people ask which have I don't know how how do you answer these questions like true how how was how was your journey journey is still going on I mean I and one question which you definitely want people to ask and something which you want to address or you want to talk about which you think is important it's important to to understand the the the thinking of a person how do you approach something situation how do you approach it I think I like to know that U it is important to so
metime do nothing it is the most important thing correct I love doing that oh yeah that that's my ambition in life yeah TR me so much is like you like like your your subconscious memory comes alive and your subconscious mind is alive and you're dreaming and you're imagining things and I think that's a very good space to be in I try and get and I us always um sit with Dad and I would tell him that this is what happened in my dream I like discussing that dream interesting dream so I started learni
ng from har G [Music] or all that it's it's quite it was quite exciting suggestion comment feedback message your choice so I'll just say the category okay and you say whatever you want to say okay music labels like I said like uh numbers okay filmmakers filmmakers have forgotten that there's a female perspective we only have male albums I think we need more voices and it comes from every category be it be it any gender fluidity I I I feel everyone needs the story is incomplete story fin yeah tru
e all the fellow artist composer Lyricist singers producers who working in the industry please uh go on dates with each other please go I I would want to see one Shadi between mun and Pak good for you we need more sh shadis like that the management team who works around with artists what to say I mean I need I need uh like G from them uh all the clients who your team represents whether it is ad agencies live show organizers you know vendors uh all of those people see you can't put everybody in t
hat category but clients who who get you get get you for the gig yeah I mean the artist is an artist not a jukebox so again that stage is their office you won't go to a Banker's office and Shuffle his files and he'll be okay with exactly so you can't Shuffle know let them know what they and and and they know their job yeah they know they've been doing this all this while so let let let them be very well said radio stations don't ask this question how please tell me about your journey this this q
uestion should be banned I'll make a I'll make a cording and take it to all my interviews actually you should do that you know I'll wear a t-shirt please don't ask me yeah okay and do you watch memes yeah it's so much fun one of your like any meme which comes to your mind right now which you had led recently or smiled I think I think one one meme is there that Shilpa should do all versions of uh uh Gaz format because also that that people gave so much love so I so they want that version of it fo
r everything in fact that version also got a lot of appreciation yeah that was quite a it it could have gone either way because true so but time consider what is the most difficult not even time what is the most difficult decision you had to make that decision to to separate music and music business and how do you actually do that if tomorrow social media shuts that is the only question you have to ask yourself very well said that's it there is no other way to imagine it I will always like I sai
d I always love music I'll always listen to music I will always look forward to learning something and I sit and practice it's more painstaking but I enjoy it that that's a recharge that I need for my soul if I won't do it I I'll go mad so uh again steps P everything is by by steps like what do you need in life to be happy and functional that's the most important someone needs 3 hours of sleep someone needs 10 hours of sleep that I think is a very important question to ask people are you well sl
ept did you eat food are you happy with with with your family with your friends it's a very important thing to have that in life uh you can't just be working corre and not have this it's it's it's it's not it's not a very purposeful life you need that family you need that you know friends of course then many people say how do you get that feel when you sing I said feel it because we think a lot when you go and listen to a song you think your mind starts working you should you should remove that
first feel feel you have to be an experience you don't have to be in a warlike situation to understand what it feels like and to be empathetic about it it's very important to have that connection of community it's very important to have that connection as a human being uh this is something which which I which I feel is very important you need to have a human connect in Life or social media YouTube Wikipedia interv I think looking back I feel uh since I was a kid I don't think I can sing that tha
t was something and uh because I believed it I feel I have a bigger love of listening to music rather than singing it so that will never leave me uh but uh I was very sure I won't be doing this so right now also someone says that to me doesn't bother me much I don't think it's even important anymore you will eventually do what you have to do correct so when you ask me those important moments I really don't know what they are but okay realizing that uh what everyone says is not you need to use yo
ur own mind important so that realization is very important which happens sometime in my life saying no to things which is very important um you don't have to do everything true so and it's a great power because you would be able to do it and and you you feel that why why am I supposed to be doing everything I can I can stay home and uh just chill in my pajamas instead of forcing myself to do something which I don't feel very kicked about so yeah I I think that that these are some moments that a
re very very important for me in life and apart from singing you enjoy travel and food correct so no I I make I try to make so what is the unique thing you make or any unique dish or any favorite dish you make the Rasam which my mom makes is the best in the world so that is the best thing I learned from her to make rum and what are your other favorite foods apart from this I eat everything I eat everything I'm not fussy about that and what what places you love to travel the most uh we are very l
ucky being a musician you get to see such places because otherwise it's only because of my music and and I I feel very very lucky and privileged to be in such a glorious glorious place I mean you go to Kashmir you go to Amar you go to Tang you get you get to go to coachin you go to palakat you go to guer what what what do you want in life is there anything which is your favorite destination it always be jamur that's that that's always that place that uh you have your nostalgia [Music] never har
Harry har he's at the this place called uh he's there and definitely have some the Samosa chai is very very s s s sing so that's that's there and uh actually best time to go is Holy why why would you say so it's Jack Jack fruit not Nota and they make a nice uh subzi out of it which is sometimes even better than mutton mutton be you have your you have your Mala let's go let's go to CH let's just go see all this is very important see these are the the things that give you those visuals and these v
isuals and help you in music all everything is connected yeah I agree to that I agree to that I've spent my entire life around artists and I can relate to this 100% because it's the personality it's overall personality everything matters what is the what is the level of respect everything matters everything adds up to that moment where you bringing that love into the song everything matters yeah or the embarassing what is the most embarrassing moment in this whole journey embarrassing I think my
dad also made we uh realize that people put it on you why should you be ashamed of anything or embarrassed about anything that you do you you chose to do it you made that decision so why do you need to be embarrassed about anything well well thought I mean it's a perspective my dad is the chillest ever and said why you embarrassed it's okay just I mean it's your life you you made that choice you made that decision why should you be ashamed or or embarrassed by it no correct no what will be the
most funniest moment the funniest thing that I've done yeah or happened to you or a moment where you found it too funny in your life or your recordings your live shows anywhere funny I think my my my bad jokes yeah everyone knows let's hear one one bad joke this is vish's favorite how do you send a rose to the Moon huh gulab Jamon favorite and not yet not yet not yet and is it going to change the industry it's way more Nuance than that uh we will have to give it time to see how it pans out one t
hing cannot be all good or all bad MH it's a mix of everything and that's why I said no we are all connected and that sense of community is very important it will only depend on one thing that as a community as human beings how we make use of it it all depends on that so it's too soon to say okay I think I'm so sure of that yeah yeah I don't know we were somewhere in in in in Hyderabad or something it was the first time I did a television I mean it was a show which was being televised so some ki
ds came and took an autograph they had no idea who I was but that's okay CL I I don't remember these things only because uh I don't think these are very important things in my yeah but but I remember what it felt like when I sang a certain song and what one line meant to me these are important things for me or the most vivid memory of me as a child was was born and I will never forget that moment so these things I'll never forget these are far more important things U we we also had a section cal
led ask the guest soci we had suggested if anybody wants to ask questions so we'll go through that question sure some of those questions we might already have been have but I'll still read influen pop influences the very soul of gazel and Indian classical elements as intricate semi-classical composition based on ragas or Indian classical instrument extensive use to revive again I keep doing live so yeah I would love him to come and watch [Music] one or why don't you make a song and send it to he
r please I'll be what is the funny moments in a song recording uh and how you became established as a playback singer and what are the criteria question okay what is the funniest do you have any funny moment in the recording session I think when amitab and I record and that it becomes too intense you know because he writes such intense stuff so then he'll just make a parody of one of the lines and we keep laughing and and suddenly it's such a breath of you remember any of you should call him and
ask him to sing every parody I will come here and record it myself the problem is that some of the parodies cannot be spoken on the podcast without the cameras without cameras yes he's very talented interesting develop the tus and the best book or exercise for it I um there is not we have to find a guru who can teach you up up uh in fact L also had an who would come and teach her so yeah I'm start finding yeah I think uh you can you can go through all the alphabets one by one and uh emulation i
s the best thing so when when you when you are hearing someone sing the right pronunciation emulate just try and copy it as to how he's pronouncing this word okay ask her exact R schedule routin how much she practice what exactly she practice and I also ask her what are the realities of music industry in terms of passion I will take the first one uh any R schedule or routine how much you practice and what exactly you practice R is both so there's one one trick that works do your you're taking ad
vantage of the fact that correct so using it to your advantage like a rubber band so if you come to the base high notes so when you get up only do kage that's one tip and there is no time as such all these Rags are made very very intelligently Time season uh situation say so the rag is supposed to give you that feeling you you you you will you will grasp it better you you go and sit and do sharang it will have better effect so these are not rules these are the rags are created in that way to giv
e you that kind of an experience when you hear them like so that's why you need to that is why you need a guru who can tell you these things L Gul must Gul yes and and and that that that's why these things are told that's why you need aad correct who can who can guide you yeah he's one of the best teacher I think the country had and he so many students and so many Rashid we just lost him I think uh a lot of tips this this and it changed my life so much so so uh yeah uh we're going to make a scul
pture Club yeah the leader is M sa Medi sa was rejected for His Radio audition give me six months he went back and created that that tone that tone so yeah sing I used to be so baffled by these tones like true I'm a big fan f a a a a n n n really big fan fan of Shar my question is how she put keep too much control too much control of her voice I mean what is the secret of a controlled voice I don't know what it mean by controlled voice do you understand I I mean yeah I must be talking about atte
ntion to detail or again again you have to aesthetic aesthetic is is so important and and uh you explained that as well is athetic small attention to detail I feel that every like would give me this uh huh don't ask for print outs when you are going for a recording take the book right down correct when you start writing that's when your process starts and it all starts sitting in the mind har used to tell me when you when you're starting out make make a mark where you'll breathe or where you wil
l cheat of breathing so make those marks uh what words are you singing in one breath make those demarcations these things help when you're when you're on the mic so small things are you comfortable if you can explain like pick up any one word and actually try to explain how you can finish that word in like multiple different ways any word so there was two breaths but you didn't hear it that is that is a cheat yes so but that's a cheat you are literally breathing in silence to gain energy for the
next line wow so you just so that that so these are some cheat codes that that are there and again that's why you need NAD to correct and if you're not told is like how to do it how to do it how to do it but because these are geniuses who've done so much so they will solve this in in like 2 seconds well said yeah why she is not doing her own independent music you see I think there's a time I I'll do this this year P I I'll I I agree I I got the message Freedom okay uh just a few more okay which
is her favorite song by herself and why is it special which is your favorite song I'll still say to because specialist special uh how was your experience working with while working with numani with fared courot on was great we just did a lot of bad jokes and a lot of food and we chilled a lot there okay so H I think what insensitive to people and that makes you actually that impresses you that this gesture small gesture but it makes you feel happy I think one thing that prum taught me to to to
hug someone and to express yourself I I was not much of a hugger but he he he he made me see the power that it has the the exchange of energy is the it matters a lot true yeah true any recent compliment that made you smile that is a little tough there was this one uh uh question uh I was asked for do and the question was that either you're a great actor or you've been through too much in life that's again I don't know it's compliment but it's it's a very well said either you are a great actor or
you've had too much in life you've been through youve been througho much a lot in life yeah so I'll always remember this life yes and if you had to change one thing in the music ecosystem what would you like to change or what would you wish that it changes I just remove the fear of it would not work remove that fear yeah that fear is holding you back from Limitless things that you can do stick that out [Music] correct everybody wants to do good work work okay thing is that remove that fear fear
of failing fear of no views no fear of this fear of that just leave it correct that that fear is holding you back it'll be too late to regret that because then the time is lost how should they feel about you so this is split into two because there are a lot of people who love a certain artist and there a lot of people who just love music these are two separate people when you love your artist artist you just uh that also gets into a bias Zone but don't do that give us that uh you know water in
the face please say that there's no problem be real to us be be be be that candid be honest and that will make us better that will help yes and people who are music lovers what so but when when someone comes and says you know this one was not that good I I appreciate that at least you're being honest with me so then I'll make I I'll do the next one better yeah sha I really had a lot of fun likewise h yes you did remember my than you but great comeback yeah [Music] and I left artist management on
e and a half year back if you know and I actually did nothing H and uh it was almost impossible for me to explain to anybody H that what I I doing actually there is no need to explain only nothing there is no need to explain correct I believe in this line had a lot of fun and thank you I think a lot of insights which you shared huh insights unique I am taking a lot of things with me today from this conversation it's okay to do nothing most important really parents say it all the time that's very
important just connecting it with everything in life and it makes life so simple it is simple yeah thank you so much anytime and wish you all the best all your likewise likewise projects independent music Bollywood music your chilling time your sleep your your travel your R all of it thank you so much thank you

Comments

@ayushjyoti1141

Arijit singh fans assemble here?

@badhanroy6076

With due respect, I somehow feel she answers to the questions in a complicated way. I might be wrong.

@satyarthpandey8556

My favourite female singer! Manmarziyan is my fav,

@shashankethane

My favorite singer period!!

@ashishsharma8424

First of all, the speed recommendation should be 1.25x and not 1.5x, its almost impossible to follow the conversation. I am a huge Shilpa Rao fan but in my humble opinion, I thought that the answers were not a natural response and were coming from a point of great conscious. Such a great artist but a great road ahead in terms of how great artists answer.

@rafiuddinshah5145

Whenever I see her , chaleya keeps running in my mind

@SameerChavhanofficial

Great interview

@Sabdar_Wani

Beautiful channel. Appreciate your work 👍

@akshattripathi3917

Waah what a phenomenal personality Shilpa mam, she has a kind of addictive voice texture as I found❤

@atmansangeet

This podcast is very helpful in many ways for an upcoming artist or musician. Shilpa Rao has such deep, fascinating, and very informative insights. Thankyou

@DharmendraSingh-yi8ct

I think Shilpa has great unique voice and I am sure she will be always be in top 5 favourites in every music lovers in recent times.

@AraadNZ

Thank you so much for getting her. She is definitely India’s jewel

@ayushmanbhalla8737

one of my fav female singer of current time.... just love her voice !

@vivanmusicmaker

How many of you're Music Producers here? I feel these podcasts are not for general audience. But very interesting and a blessing for those who are intricately connected with music creation.

@krishnatripathi2311

Vote for sonu sir

@vishwajeetsvocal4343

I feel so connected to her❤️🎵

@arijitsingh7574

I am waiting for you Shilpa mam

@yashbhojwani3302

Truly waiting for this one ❤

@kunjsomaiya4723

Will love shilpa even more after this ❤

@unknownname5951

Sonu Nigam plsss❤...i really like ur podcasts