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‘Mother Jane’ band to perform in city

— PHOTO: by special arrangement

Members of the ‘Mother Jane’ rock band.

KOCHI: JT Performing Art Centre is to present a performance by the rock band “Mother Jane”, on January 29 at JT Pac, Thripunithura. Formed in Kochi 1996, Mother Jane was awarded the ‘Best Indie Rock Band in Asia’ by AVIMA ’09, the world’s largest Indie music awards, featuring 16 countries.

Suraj Mani, the vocalist, was nominated as the ‘best rock vocalist’.

Mother Jane is a band whose music is both spiritual and intelligent, and connects with the passion in everyone, say the band members. “We have chosen our dreams over our fears, putting 100 per cent of ourselves into 1 per cent chance of success ...we have chosen what we have become”, they say. With the message “Love All, Rock All”, Mother Jane, the band’s ‘guardian angel’, appears in various forms. The band’s belief is that music is by far the best and purest drug in the world. Here are five Indian men who picked up western instruments in something as “confined” as a rock band and yet sound like they’ve found a spiritual blend between the East and the West. The band comprises Suraj Mani, vocals; Baiju Dharmarajan on the lead guitar; John Thomas on the drums; Clyde Rozorio on the bass guitar and Deepu Sasidharan on the rhythm guitar. Mother Jane has the distinction of being the only rock band from India to have their music played on American, Mexican and Japanese radio stations and has a cult following all over India.

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