of my job as a composer , yes , as an expressionist , as a poet , definitely it is a part of my job . But I never took my singing seriously . I never intended to be a singer . Even the songs that I have sung I incidentally had to sing those because of professional commitments and time constraints and certain circumstances that come in the professional path . But I ’ ve never wanted to be a singer . I think it ’ s a specialist job and I have great respect for those who do it and who do it flawlessly .
Who are some of your influences growing up and how have they impacted the different aspects of your musicality ?
Okay , I think the biggest influence in my life as a musician comes from my father , Naresh Sharma , because I think the most important thing is he made everything look very easy . He made music look very natural to me because as a composer arranger , when I see him work , I never saw him under stress or I never saw him under any kind of pressure . I ’ ve heard of incidences when he would be conducting for Laxmikant-Pyarelal and he would conduct 120 piece orchestra . He would conduct the interval scene for Coolie , the background score for it , and he would do it with a smile on his face . The most relaxed person at the studio where everybody else would be under tremendous pressure of performance and with delivering the best results . So I think that was a very big , inviting factor for me , that music is part of our mind , body and spirit and it comes very naturally towards just the way probably we speak or we react or be emoted so that they are very important in the way I perceive music as an art and as a science .
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