Khosla: This is such a thrill
INDIAN-AMERICAN composer Siddhartha Khosla has won an ASCAP Screen Music Award for his work on NBC’s drama series This is Us.
Khosla, who was previously nominated for an Emmy for the series, won the Top Network Television Series during a three-day virtual celebration held at the end of last month.
The Screen Music Awards are organised by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a professional membership organisation of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music.
Khosla, as well as other winning composers, gave acceptance speeches from their home studios, some with creatively staged video segments, and celebrity friends chimed in with special congratulatory messages.
“Beyond thrilled to accept the 2020 @ASCAP ‘Top Network Series’ award for my work on @NBCThisisUs. Thank you to my college roommate @Dan_Fogelman for the endless inspiration. Can’t wait to get back to work on season 5,” he tweeted.
Khosla’s Indian-born parents came to the US in the mid-1970s to study. They worked at night jobs to make a living but were forced to send their toddler son to India to be raised by his grandparents.
Back then international calls were expensive so music became central to Khosla’s life, as he listened to his mother sing to him on cassette tapes she mailed from America, the citation said.
Khosla’s song Evergreen Cassette is about this very experience, and featured in the first season of This is Us.