The Score Magazine April 2019 | Page 14

GAJENDRA PURI GOSWAMI & SNEHA RAMESH BHUSHAN KUMAR Music is oxygen. Playlists are lifelines. Five minutes of a good song can change your life, reduce stress, make you laugh, cry, get nostalgic, inspire you, lift your mood. Heck, five minutes of good music can even help you shed a few calories! So, who's making the songs we're grooving to today and what goes into making a hit five-minute song? The answer : A lifetime of being Bhushan Kumar, Chairman and Managing Director, T-Series and young India's master music conductor. Born into a musical family, son to a father passionate about music, God-gifted ear for music, commander of a leading music company and over 20 years of making music. But Bhushan Kumar is more than destiny's child. He may have inherited T-Series from his late father Gulshan Kumar but he had to start from scratch. It took years of hard work and study, plenty of support and help from family and friends, trust from the film industry, a rocking team, many challenges, some failures and repeated success for Bhushan Kumar to transform into a noteworthy influencer, redefine the Indian music industry, make T-Series the most popular and successful music label in India and YouTube's leading channel. 12 The Score Magazine highonscore.com In an exclusive interview, he talks to The Score magazine about running a successful music company, business and personal ideologies, and what goes into making hit music that influences new generations, year after year.