Singapore President praises A R Rahman for working with native musicians

“ARR has also done our own talent good over the years, by giving them valuable exposure,” The Straits Times quoted Tharman as having mentioned in a social media publish on Monday .

“Our Indian music and cultural talent, from classical to the most contemporary and edgy, are naturally a minority in the local scene. But they make Singapore’s multiculturalism all the more special,” Tharman mentioned.

Tharman listed the home-grown acts who’ve labored with Rahman — rapper-songwriter duo Lady Kash and Krissy, singer-musician Shabir and rapper Yung Raja.

Rahman’s collaborations embody “Wanna Mash Up?,” a track with Lady Kash and Krissy for the 2014 Hindi movie Highway.

Tharman added that Singapore was the primary place the Chennai-born Rahman travelled to outdoors of India within the Eighties and the way the musician purchased his tools from native music shops Swee Lee and City Music.

“Good to see that both local music stores are still going strong after all these years,” Tharman wrote.

Tharman uploaded pictures of himself assembly the Grammy-, Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning music and movie icon popularly often called ARR, who was on the town on May 10 and 11 for the premiere of Le Musk, a multi-sensory digital actuality movie he directed that’s screening at Golden Village Suntec City 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 City, viewers will put on VR headsets and sit in particular egg-shaped chairs that launch scents.

Rahman has staged a number of live shows in Singapore, most lately on the National Stadium on August 31 . 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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