Bollywood Hindi music has had an interesting past and is ready to explode onto the world stage over the next ten years. This article is a journey into the past of Hindi music, explores the important landmarks and takes a quick look at its future. Music transcends all geographic barriers. It has no cultural, religious and ethnic boundaries and according to his taste, it touches the very heart of our inner souls. This musical montage with melody as the leitmotif at times charges us up to help us shape our attitudes and at other times, brings sweet memories back to brighten our day. I was a follower of the great Hindi music since I can remember. Being also classically trained in Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music, I have a deep connection with Indian music.
Bollywood music has a long interesting journey. Starting from the 50's and 60's where the actors and actresses sang their own songs. The 70 and 80 have been marked by timeless melodies of Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd. the voice of sweet butter Rafi and RD Burman ahead-of-the-time dance numbers. The 90s were, for me, a phase transition for the music of Bollywood, where the influence of Western music and instruments has gradually increased and brought with it several new flavors. The term Indi-pop, but I invented at that time both from a new era where artists can now release their own music albums. It is difficult to believe that before the 90s, there were very few records of Hindi music and mainstream popular music was generally Bollywood films.
The new millennium is the greatest amount of creativity that I saw in the Hindi music. Composers have taken the liberty to combine American-style, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Arabic and several other countries and created beautiful blends - never seen in Bollywood. The most successful composer in the new millennium was AR Rehman. His music was a perfect blend of East and West, but with Indian flavor that is so different. Album after album and movie after movie that consists of were successful and so far, it is the most successful composer of our time. His albums are memorable Roja, Bombay, Vande Mataram and, more recently, Guru.
The future is much more to the music of Bollywood. Today, Hindi music plays on radio around the world. The composers are the top Indian and international application of composing music for films and albums in Hollywood and Europe. With Indian models get recognition in recent years, Aishwarya Rai was Miss World and Sushmita Sen was Miss Universe) and hit films like Bend It Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding directed by Indians, they are certainly about to take off significantly.
But this is only scratching the surface. Indian music has a rich 5,000 years, more than most other forms of music and there are hundreds of different forms of music in India which are still unknown and unseen by the rest of the world. The next two decades will gain importance Indian music on the world stage. With the availability of portals such as YouTube, relaxing music has never been so easy. Raaga.com MusicIndiaOnline.com and have huge collections of online music and Indian.
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