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‘I will not forget singing if I don’t do shows’
Singer Sukhwinder Singh isn’t feeling the pinch of not being able to perform live since the last three months. While a few musicians recently started venturing out for live shows, he says, “If someone is doing it, you can’t go against them. But the range of the audience is bigger for people like me. Nowhere would 50,000 people be allowed right now. Marriages are limited occasions. This is a minus point I have — I can’t perform at many weddings.”
“If I don’t do shows, does that mean my music will be snatched away from me, or my career will sink, or I will forget singing?” he asks, before sharing that though he isn’t venturing out for live performances, it doesn’t mean his work has stopped.
Singh has been recording for films regularly, and in fact, wraps up one just before we get to talk to him. Shamshera and Aaadhaar are a couple of his upcoming projects.
When asked his take on whether favouritism and nepotism exist in the music industry, as claimed by singer Sonu Nigam in a recent viral video, he quips, “Yeh mere liye
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koi mazedaar baat nahi hai, yeh thodi personal lag rahi hai mujhe. Mere liye nahi, unke liye. Someone among them has been hurt maybe, and this is the result of that. Even I am from Amritsar, who hasn’t come from outside?”
And he goes on to add, “Voh zamaana chala gaya jab ek machhli pure talaab ko ganda karegi. How can the entire industry be defamed?”
MONDAY, JULY 13, 2020