CSI Redeemer Church Choir — Anna Nagar East is a voice factory with an overactive assembly line. Immanuel Ponraj who has led those voices in all of those 30 years as its conductor, recalls, “In 1995 when we started, the choir had only 15 to 20 members.” The choir in 1995 was wearing noticeably grey hair, a hairstyle drawn from …
A few years ago, Molly Lewis walked into Dr. Dre’s recording studio and accidentally roasted him. “It was an unintentional diss!” Lewis’ extraordinary talent in a very niche field has taken her to unlikely places, from Dr. Dre’s studio to covering Billie Eilish on the “Barbie” soundtrack. “When people ask me what I do, I say I’m a musician, and …
A 21-year-old Chennai-based artiste, Ankush Jain, manages to play wind instruments and make music with his mouth at the same time. “I was a percussionist before getting into beatboxing and I was randomly watching YouTube videos and I came across this TEDx talk by Tom Thum and I found it very interesting to be able to create music without instruments …