Fans of the impossible life5/21/2023 His boyhood neighborhood was known for sex, drugs and violence. "People like me don't usually dare to dream of a career in music," Kadhiravel says. He loved making up lyrics and rapping them to his friends, but he didn't even know that what he was doing was rap until a friend introduced him to the genre. His mother worked as a cleaner, his father did tailoring on a street corner to make ends meet. Kadhiravel himself grew up in TP Chatram, a slum in Chennai in a 10 x 10 square foot home. "You can record the verse over your phone," he says. And all you need is a backing track which you can find free online." And you don't need pricey equipment. Such frustrations, he says, are driving Indian musicians to embrace rap and hip-hop: "It's a fantastic genre to vent anger, frustration. Independent Indian musicians have ideas and creative energy, he says, but lack the funds for basic equipment and travel expenses for performances. That, says Ashley, is not likely going to be the case. It's a platform to help independent artists from low-income communities get a foot in the door of show business.īut will the win bring more visibility – and opportunity - for Indian musicians? "Wins like 'Naatu Naatu' put us on the world map, which is so fantastic," says Berty Ashley, a musician in Bengaluru, and co-founder of OriginalDog along with Navin Dorai. And because the movie itself comes not from India's famed Bollywood film industry but from South Indian cinema, there was additional optimism.
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