A little over a week into March, Harshdeep Kaur already has six releases across five Hindi movies, including Tinak Tinak ( Tanhaji ) and t...
A little over a week into March, Harshdeep Kaur already has six releases across five Hindi movies, including Tinak Tinak (Tanhaji) and the Panga. Much more is in store for the rest of the year, the singer told Scroll.in, including her own non-film music compositions.
In a career spanning nearly two decades, Kaur has sung for nearly every major Hindi film composer, from AR Rahman to Amit Trivedi. In 2018, the fraternity returned the favour by singing for her devotional composition Satguru Nanak Aaye Ne, which features the voices of Shankar Mahadevan, Shekhar Ravjiani and Salim Merchant, among others.
Having been around since 2003, when, at the age of 15, she sang Sajna Main Haari in Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai, the singer has an opinion or two on how the music industry has changed – for better and worse.
“Recording today is tuned to the comforts of the singer,” Kaur observed. “Earlier, singers came into the studio when the song was totally ready, arranged, all tracks had been recorded, and you had to deliver the song at the right pitch. Now, you can sing however you like and your pitch will be corrected later. Also, earlier composers came with rigid ideas of how a female singer should sound, like Lata ji, Asha ji or...
