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Making a cool splash

Photo: V.V. Krishnan

Shibani Kashyap

With over a decade in the music industry, Shibani now pins her hopes on Blood Money, expected to be released this year and scripted by an Indian-American banker. It will mark an important milestone for the singer who came along with Ho gayi hai mohabbat tum se in the 1990s and who now wants to carve a niche as a composer. Women music composers still are unseen specks in the Hindi filmdom. Breaking in was not easy, admits Shibani.

Making music, live shows with her band Sojourn, mulling over a musical movie script, cameos in films and the idea of an album with the band assures her no spare time. She has already completed her dose of reality television as a judge on Bathroom Singer.

Music and its infinite opportunities are Shibani’s life-breath. It has been so for this Delhi girl since her mother introduced her to classical music at the age of five. She might have veered off to different inspirations like Western, jazz, R&B and Sufi, but music still defines her. Defying slotting, she says, “I don’t want to classify my music at all. It is of the world.”

Shibani was when she was invited to the Rashtrapati Bhawan along with a host of celebrities chosen from different fields on Women’s Day. “We all took an oath against female foeticide there. It was such an honour to be invited.”

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