A band comprising blind and sighted artistes awaits V-Day release
A band comprising blind and sighted artistes awaits V-Day release
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SEEING IS BELIEVING: The blind and sighted Udaan group; Deepak Soni |
Udaan, a band comprising a mix of and visually challenged musicians and those who aren't, awaits the release of its debut album.
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The band has 20 blind band members and 15 who are sighted. Out of these 20, several can see a little while the others are totally blind. They specialise in light music: bhajans, ghazals and dandiya music.
The album is slated to be released in the Valentine week leading up to V-Day under the T-Series label. Says Deepak Soni, the visually challenged co-founder and singer of the band Udaan, "It has eight instrumental numbers; both romantic numbers and hip hop tracks."
Sallu saluteHaria and Soni say that the T-Series story began when the band met with actor Salman Khan at a cafe last year.
Salman actually announced to everyone present how proud he was of the band, played a song of theirs on his laptop and then introduced them to Kishen Kumar of T-series.u00a0 Udaan has a picture of Salman on their allbum cover.
Most artistes in Udaan now make their living through music. "We do not want sympathy," they say, "we want more shows. We also want this album to be judged for its quality, not because of the novelty factor of blind artistes playing for it this is our Valentine labour of love."u00a0
