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November 2016
Hi, this is Suchitra and Welcome
to Museek Mag.
On early days of childhood ...
I was born in chennai but i grew up in Kerala.
My dad used to work in Trivandrum and for
a while in Ernakulam as well. So, I grew up in
Kerala , in large lonely houses with hardly any
neighbors . I used to play alone in the backyard and build my own little houses and do my
own things. A lot of people may not know this,
but I’m quite introverted by nature. (Giggles)
I think Mr.Selvakumar knows it . I have been
the shyest person he’s had to work with in front
of the camera and I think that came from the
childhood in a state or rather a place which was
full of greenery , hardly any people and I had to
be myself and do my own things .
How and when did Music touch you?
whatsoever .I am attempting to learn the
guitar now so let’s see how that goes .
The beginning of your career…
I moved into chennai after I finished
post graduation to start working . I started
working in this Advertising agency called
Ogilvy and Mather . I then moved on to
Sify.com for a bit in an editorial position
and then to Radio Mirchi . This entire career path happened in Chennai for me .
There is really nobody else I should thank
other than Mr.Timothy Madhukar (Timi
as we like to call him and he likes to called)
. I guess I met Keith uncle , Jim Sathya ,
Music got into my life a little bit in School . I
studied in Bharathi Vidhya Bhavan and were a
lot of competitions . At that point , for patriotic
songs and things that children were encouraged
to sing , I was sent by my teachers to participate
in group singing competitions. (it was because I
used to literally volume wise be able to outsing
everybody) So that’s where the interest in music started really but what got me inextricably
drawn to music was the album thriller that my
dad had bought for me , when I was a kid . It
was a small cassette . I have a feeling that it was
a duplicate cassette because I know how the
cassette inside jacket looks and it was , I think a
photo copy paper but - My Goodness! I played
the tape to death and I think that really got
me into music .No formal education in music
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