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media that today people are intrigued by singers lives and actually want to know what they look like and why they do what they do. It’s helped singers like myself to come out interact with people and share every small little happiness with real fans. I’m grateful for all my fan clubs because they’re so supportive and we’d be nothing without their love and encouragement. We are glad that we get to speak to them sometimes through social media and share our songs so closely. Sukriti: Social media is extremely important these days otherwise I think it's impossible to keep in touch with your fans or audiences or even be able to share your upcoming work with the world! You need to constantly keep tabs and social media helps you be constantly inspired, motivated and keep reinventing yourself in more than many ways! It's overwhelming to see how many pages some really cute fan girls and boys have created on our names and how much they love Prakriti and I together! It's a constant boost for us to keep working hard and have more and more music released in this year to come. Having performed in many gigs, how do you manage to engage the audience? Do you customise your playlist based on the place you are performing in? Prakriti: Always. I think not more than the first 5 songs of our set list are really planned. It’s always the audience that we mould our set according to. Always half an hour into the show we gauge what’s working with the audience. Sukriti: I think the only way to engage an audience is to have a connection with them from the moment you start your show! On our gigs we obviously sing some of our songs, but we also sing some of our favourite songs. And our show format has a huge section of non-stop mashups and medleys so that for sure helps in engaging the audiences for a longer period instead of doing one song after the other. And yes, we really depends where we are travelling and what kind of audience is there and we mend the set (delete some songs o add some new songs) accordingly! Tell us your current and upcoming projects Prakriti: I think it’s the best time to be around. It’s finally time for independent music and singers to come out and shine. Today you can release your own music in mediums like YouTube and there will be audience for it. You can constantly offer your own music and there will be buyers. You don’t really just have to depend on films to get a song in. Today you can write your own music, sing it the way you wish and upload it. Finally singers are getting their due because they are slowly becoming the face to their voice. It’s been on my mind to release a single for years now. I think it’s about time. Sukriti and I am working on our first one which is composed and written by us and will feature us as wvvell. I’m really stoked as it will be the first time we lend our voices on one song together. Sukriti: I sang on the Mubarakan title track late last year and there was Neend Churayi from Golmaal returns which is on a hundred million views now. This year some really fun songs are lined up. My next is from Sonu Ki Titu Ki Sweety and then in Dharmas' Drive. The Score Magazine highonscore.com 15