Lavanya talks about her first meeting with Hariharan on New This Week

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Check out Lavanya Padmanabhan performing only on ArtistAloud.com, Independent artists platform from across the world. Lavanya talks about her first meeting with Hariharan on New This Week at ArtistAloud. • To watch more log on http://www.artistaloud.com/ • For all the updates of ArtistAloud: • / artistaloud • / artistaloud • *************************************************************** • Gunjan Utreja: Hariharan ji ko aap yuhi radio pe mili? • Lavanya Padmanabhan: Nahi. Hari ji actually it's a different story altogether, main tenth main thi shayad pundra sola saal ki thi jab class se aayi thi, some tuition class aur achanak main sun rahi hoon mummy kuch dekh rahi hai TV par aur kisi ne gaana gaaya. Main khana le rahi thi aur main usko aise hi, I just remember turning back and looking at the TV, se waisa ka waisa tha aur woh poora gaana jab tak khatam hua tab tak main bus dekhti rehe gayi thi and then I realized who is this singer and what is this, this is what I wanted to do and I remember telling my mother this. And hua yeh tha ki doh din ke baad ek chota sa add tha paper mein aur mummy ne woh dikha kar kaha, yeh wahi hai na joh parso TV pe gaa rahe the, woh kuch perform kar rahe hai and he was performing at Nehru center. Main chali gayi thi mummy papa ko lekar aur green room main gayi autograph book ke behane aur jaise hi baiti main fatta fat unko kaha ki main itne saal se seekh rahi hoon, mujhe yeh karna hai, mujhe woh karna hai, mujhe aap se seekh na hai, yeh hai woh hai and Hari ji being Hari ji very cool and contented and hamesha ek dum contained hassey aur bhole, tumhara naam toh batao autograph toh sign karoo and I said Lavanya and I continued to say whatever I had to say and because I was just too excited as a child and I wanted to learn from him and I was just bubbling aur woh doh dino mein ...matlab doh din mein unke saare joh gaane tab tak nikle hua the sab sun liye the, din raat. So I knew this is the man I wanted to learn from. So he signed the autograph and just looked up and said 'Main nahi sikhata hoon' aur tab woh nahi sikhate the aur main toh ekdam hey bhagwan.. • Gunjan Utreja: Shattered. • Lavanya Padmanabhan: Shattered toh chodo, waha green room sare log baite hai, unka rehersal chal raha hai, main udhar Ganga nadiya sab bahe gaya. • Gunjan Utreja: Kya baath hai. • Lavanya Padmanabhan: And then he signed the autograph and looked up and realized I was crying. Immediately he pulled out a paper, wrote down his number and said please call me in ten days, main kahi ja raha hoon, dus din baad ahoonga, main tum se baath karta hoon. Dus din baad jab woh aaye, uske baad un hone mujhe convince kiya ki he doesn't have you know so much time on his hand ki woh baqaida bait ke mujhe sikhaye aur sikhana joh hai, uske liye guru joh lagte hai woh alag hote hai. So I need that kind of taleem was very necessary and then the grace of God and his grace as well, woh mujhe le gaye apne ustaad ji ke paas Padmabhushan Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan saab, who is my ustaad till today. I still learn with him and I have been blessed to have these two pillars in my life. Inke allawa life mein koi music nahi hota. • • Gunjan Utreja: And Hari ji also launched your latest album. • Lavanya Padmanabhan: Yes. • Gunjan Utreja : Which is Maahi • 2:34 Lavanya Padmanabhan: Yes this was my debut album. Hari ji 1992 yeh mein baath hai joh saari maine batai, 1992 mein hui thi. Tab se he has been keeping track, main seek rahi thi, toh beech beech mein mera gaana sun lete the. 2007 se main unke saath stage shows pe perform kar rahi hu. we have a band called Soul India so I sing along with Hari ji on the band as a female singer. Toh hum shows ke dohran kahi gaane maine gaaye, Hari ji also realized ki yeh mera style hai aur yeh mere ranges hai, yaha yaha meri aawaz acchi lagti hai, so for him to compose for me was the best thing that could have happened because as a singer unko bilkul malum hai ki meri aawaz ki kya khubhi hai aur kaise use showcase kar na hai and again him being the composer that he is and having the knowledge that he has, woh mere hisaab se gaana bana paye. Yeh mujhe lagta hai so he making the album for me was again Gods grace. • Gunjan Utreja: And there is also a video where you both feature. • Lavanya Padmanabhan: Yes. • Gunjan Utreja: So its time we have a look at that video. • 3:35 Lavanya Padmanabhan: • Oh maahi, maahi oh maahi (2) • Mujhe le chal Vaha le chal • Tu ho jaha aur main... • Oh maahi, maahi oh maahi (2) • Mujhe le chal Vaha le chal • Tu ho jaha aur main... • Oh maahi, maahi oh maahi (2)

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