SNEHA RAMESH
Artist of the month
Kevin Fernando
Singer-Songwriter / Performer / Playback singer
Who or what inspired you to become a musician ?
This is actually quite interesting . I was always shy and I ’ d never sing in front of a crowd . In 12th grade , there was a competition and I was forced to participate in the auditions . There was a senior who had passed out of school , who had come down to school to judge the different voices and choose the best voices to add to the competition . The song that was given to us was “ Free Falling ” and I reluctantly went in last and sang to him . He heard me sing and went , “ Where have you been all this while ? You ’ ve got such a wonderful voice ”. At that time , when I had no idea about Independent Music , I only used to look up to this senior who also happened to be the front-man of the band “ Blacklisted ”. I used to love the band and the fact that I got him to like my voice piqued my interest in music .
Did you go through any formal music training ? How did you learn music ?
I ’ ve never had any formal training . It ’ s funny how much you can learn when you keep listening to something on loop . My singing skills developed completely from trying to figure out how other artists sing . Playing the guitar on the other hand , has a funny story attached to it . I started going for competitions to sing and I noticed that I had to rely on someone to accompany me . I ended up getting an expensive guitar which I never got to learning . A few months later though , I had a feeling that people might start making fun of me for buying an expensive guitar and not using it . So I sat down , opened YouTube and started learning .
You have a wide repertoire of music with you . How do you manage to create music that is diverse thus catering to wider audiences ?
This comes from the fact that I listen to a lot of music . Even if it ’ s something that I don ’ t listen to , I ’ d try to give it a listen to see what I can learn from it . Over a period of time of constant learning from different sources across genres and my curiosity to dwell into all of it , made me make different types of songs . I ’ ve always been someone who ’ s looked for validation from all types of people . So my music tends to do the same .
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