Rising Bharat Summit 2024 is being held in New Delhi on March 19-20. The Summit witnessed Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivering his address to the viewers. Many prominent names from the field of politics, arts, corporate world, entertainment and sports participated in the event.
The Summit provides a platform to explore and celebrate Bharat’s journey over the years. On Day 1 of the summit, Singer and composer Shankar Mahadevan, flautist Rakesh Chaurasia, percussionist V. Selvaganesh and violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan spoke about their Grammy-winning album.
Bharat won big at the Grammys in 2024 as Shankar Mahadevan and Zakir Hussain’s band Shakti bagged the Best Global Music Album award for ‘This Moment’.
The group also features guitarist John McLaughlin, percussionist V Selvaganesh and violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan.
Shankar Mahadevan also won the Music Legend Award for his contribution to music at the Showsha Reel Awards 2024.
Shankar Mahadevan said, ‘The way the album happened was very amazing and it all happened during the peak of Covid. We are so much used to touring and doing 20 concerts in 30 days all over America and all over Europe that we were getting withdrawal symptoms. So, we thought we had to do an album. And nobody could move out of the house because of Covid. So the way this album happened was completely remote control. Zakir Bhai was from San Francisco, Selva-Ganesh from Chennai and Seattle, John ji was from Monaco and I was from Mumbai. We were going up and down on the server, bars were being exchanged, comments, emails and mixes too. What a process it was! But when we heard it, we said we’ve cracked something.”
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