Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam Praises AR Rahman For Collaborating With Native Musicians | X @arrahman
Singapore: Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam has praised India’s main musician A R Rahman (ARR) for collaborating with native musicians and giving them “priceless publicity”.
Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s Assertion
“ARR has additionally achieved our personal expertise good through the years, by giving them priceless publicity,” The Straits Occasions quoted Tharman as having mentioned in a social media submit on Monday (June 2).
“Our Indian music and cultural expertise, from classical to essentially the most up to date and edgy, are naturally a minority within the native scene. However they make Singapore’s multiculturalism all of the extra particular,” Tharman mentioned.
Tharman listed the home-grown acts who’ve labored with Rahman – rapper-songwriter duo Woman Kash and Krissy, singer-musician Shabir and rapper Yung Raja.
Rahman’s collaborations embody “Wanna Mash Up?,” a track with Woman Kash and Krissy for the 2014 Hindi movie Freeway.
Tharman added that Singapore was the primary place the Chennai-born Rahman travelled to outdoors of India within the Nineteen Eighties and the way the musician purchased his tools from native music shops Swee Lee and Metropolis Music.
“Good to see that each native music shops are nonetheless going sturdy in spite of everything these years,” Tharman wrote.
Tharman uploaded pictures of himself assembly the Grammy-, Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning music and movie icon popularly generally known as ARR, who was on the town on Could 10 and 11 for the premiere of Le Musk, a multi-sensory digital actuality (VR) movie he directed that’s screening at Golden Village Suntec Metropolis theatre till August 12.
Le Musk, a 37-minute movie that marks his directorial debut, makes use of pioneering digicam applied sciences to current an immersive movie that blends VR, haptics, music and perfume. At GV Suntec Metropolis, viewers will put on VR headsets and sit in particular egg-shaped chairs that launch scents.
Rahman has staged a number of concert events in Singapore, most just lately on the Nationwide Stadium on August 31 (2024). He additionally carried out at Gardens by the Bay in 2014, the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2005, and Marina Bay Sands in 2011.
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