HELLO AND WELCOME TO MY VIRTUAL HOME
There are links, pictures, music and other stuff, so move around & feel at home.
Here's music that I've made
Though I've been a band player for many years, I've put out mainly Christian music so far.
There's a lot in the pipeline, so visit more often.
And these are records on which I've had some role or other
I had the privilege to work on these records, and more importantly, the freedom to express myself. Loved the experience and waiting for more of this!
One big children's choir!
I had the honour and privilege of training and conducting the Chinmaya Mission Schools choir for a big concert in Chennai. The choir comprised of 306 students from grades 5-12 and this choir was part of 'Jhabhangadadash' - a live concert by three-time Grammy® Award winning artist Ricky Kej, to mark 50 years of the Chinmaya Mission education in India.
MY EARTH SONGS
'My Earth Songs’ has been incorporated into textbooks for classes 2 to 8 of the ICSE stream by Macmillan Publications, and has reached to over 5 million children as of now!
If there's a lesson about ways to save water in EVS, you'll find the lyrics of 'Catch the rain' - which is all about rainwater harvesting, in that textbook. If there's a lesson about marine life, you'll find 'In the Waterworld'. That's not all! There's a QR code that allows one to download the song free of cost.
In 2019, the album was nominated for the United Nations SDG Action Awards in Bonn, Germany, and made the top three. Now here's something that brought a wonderful sense of satisfaction to the writer side of me! One of the songs, 'Thinking Cap' is in the English textbook as a poem! As for the songwriter side, what a joy it was to find a post showing a group of schoolkids in Africa singing 'Give me your CO2', and another of children in Russia singing 'Something to live up to' as I was checking social media messages just before retiring for the night!
Feathers in the cap
