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Arte Compass to present Anup Jalota on Saturday

Anup Jalota

SINGAPORE: Styled as `Musical Expressions', an offering of `geet, ghazals, and bhajan' by Anup Jalota is on Saturday expected to enliven the Indian arts scene in the cosmopolitan ambience here. The event is being organised by Arte Compass, which has already presented various forms of Indian performing arts in the city-state's multi-cultural setting.

Known as `bhajan samrat' (king of devotional songs), Anup Jalota is equally at ease as a maestro of ghazal (unique poetic notes set to music). He will be accompanied here by Himanshu Tiwari (on the Spanish guitar), Amit Choubey (tabla), and Piyush Pawar (santoor). Nirmala Kumari and Kokila are likely to be the vocalists for some songs.

This will be the seventh in a series under the auspices of Arte Compass, whose first presentation was `Shraddha' (commitment), a concert of fusion-music over two years ago. The other events covered classical music as also the theatre, film songs, and ghazals.

Anup Jalota, who has to his credit over 4,000 live concerts worldwide, has been chosen for his repertoire of over 1,200 songs including devotional songs and ghazals, according to the organisers. Having found his "true calling at stage shows," he has performed with the likes of Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hassan, the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, as also Lata Mangeshkar, Jagjit Singh, Pankaj Udhas, besides Indian pop singer Usha Uthup. Hailing from a family of musicians, Anup Jalota can sing in six languages. He is expected to lace his latest performance with fast-and-rhythmic music and humour, that have characterised his shows elsewhere. The "strong classical foundation" of the songs he usually renders will of course be in evidence too, the organisers say.

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