Cover specialist music band Sanam now into original tracks
It took Mumbai-based band Sanam eight years to focus on original compositions, and stop doing “covers” of original classics. It was “high time” that they did so, felt the four members, who released the group’s first single, Sanam Mennu, earlier this month.
“We wanted to create a listener base before we started focusing on original music. . We have roughly three million subscribers on our YouTube channel. People know who we are, so now when we put out our original music,the reach of our music will be better. We now want to do as much original music as we can. We will still do covers, but the focus won’t be on them as much,” says the band’s bass player, Venkat Subramaniyam aKa Venky S.
Sanam Puri, the band’s frontman, hopes that the young generation will connect with their single, a “light-hearted, fun song” about modern love. “Girls and guys have similar expectations in relationships. In our song, the guy is telling the girl in a playful sprit that ‘I love you’, but I’m not the kind of guy who will meet every little unreasonable demand and expectation,” he says.
The song’s video was released on February 10, a week after its audio, and has already crossed 16 lakh hits on YouTube. The band’s drummer Keshav Dhanraj shares that it was a conscious decision. “We wanted to get everyone [to be] familiar with the song before we released its video. This has worked well for us. So our fans have downloaded and streamed the song already. We’re thrilled to see the response,” he says, all charged up for their future compositions as a band.