Stepping across the worry lines

His bandmates Joe Jacob, Naresh Nathan, Akshay Ganesh, Goutham Hebbar, Sanjay Kumar and Paul Anthony, joined the band at different periods of time. Every night I would go to bed hoping I won’t wake up the next morning and would wake up every morning cursing the fact that I was still breathing.” Interestingly, this low phase led to him producing some of his most positive songs. I want them to know that they too can be incredibly strong and achieve anything so long as they don’t give up on themselves.” Shakkarpari, literally translating to ‘sugar fairy’, is the album’s title song in Hindi, and was one of the most popular numbers performed at the ASEAN concert. Dixit explains its meaning: “The poet says: you want to worry about the whole world, and I am not one to stop you, please feel free to worry. But know, that worrying by itself doesn’t help anything.” It becomes clear that Dixit’s music with its raw and infectious energy certainly embodies the Bobby McFerrin spirit, ‘Don’t worry, be happy’.