MUMBAI: The word versatility is apt for ‘Salaam-E-Ishq’ singer Sadhna Sargam. Having teamed up with eminent composers like Illayraja and AR Rahman, she has been someone who has made her presence felt. For over two decades, Sargam has rendered her vocals not for only Bollywood, but also for other regional languages including Tamil, Marathi, Oriya, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati and Nepali.
Commenting on the current scenario of the music industry, she said, “With the changing lifestyle of people, music has also changed drastically. The kind of songs we heard in 1950s and 60s no longer exist. When we started singing, all the songs from a film would be sung by one particular singer. Today you hear different sounds, which have opened up more avenues for upcoming singers.” She also feels that songs have a western influence. Lyrics and melody are the two key components by which she judges a song. “I just wish that the songs had something more than one hook line. You can never remember the whole song apart from that one line,” she further added.
In Bollywood there are many singers, who do not rely on riyaaz or music practice, instead they feel that riyaaz happens only in the studio. But Sargam prefers doing her riyaaz for at least an hour. “The fact is that the types of songs that are composed today no longer require riyaaz. They can just enter the studio sing a few lines and vanish. But we belong to a gharana, where riyaaz is given utmost importance,” she elucidated.
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The Bollywood music industry is marred today by the ogre of auto tuners, wherein anyone can just walk into the recording studio and can become an amazing singer. The fact is not alien to her, but she does admit that there are singers who have made it to the top by simply working hard at honing their talent. “I have seen Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chauhan who have always sung well. I have seen them even as kids when they would come to Kalyanji Anandji for their musical training,” she concluded.
