My rebellion has always been positive and connected with my work. That’s how I’ve sung in foreign languages and collaborated with international artistes.
I’ve had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there’s a standing ovation.
It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still be relevant to her – that’s a dream of songwriting, maybe.
I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change – mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song ‘I’m Old-Fashioned,’ as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.
As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles as well.
I have sung all kinds of songs – be it ghazals, qawwalis, romantic numbers or peppy numbers.
I don’t want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protestant hymn, and it is sung at all Protestant funerals, and I think I should have it sung at mine. It is called ‘The Day Thou Gave Us Lord is Ended’.
Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.
I have sung in over 20 different languages and enjoyed it. I have even sung in foreign languages like Spanish and Russian.
I’ve played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn’t make me a footballer. And I’ve sung a duet with Pavarotti. That doesn’t make me an opera singer. I can write and I have a story to tell, but I’m not going to make a career out of it.
Songun is a proud tradition of the Korean revolution which was pioneered by Comrade Kim Il Sung and led by him and Comrade Kim Jong Il and the banner of victory and glory.
I got recognised for my work in ‘Guru’ as ‘Tere Bina’ became extremely popular, but very few people know that I have sung major lyrical portions of the song ‘Maiyya’ as well.
‘The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
I have sung a couple of songs in Telugu and Hindi films, but I was not happy with that. So, I thought of doing an album. I do not know how people will react.
The fat lady hasn’t sung yet. We’ll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
We’d just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.
My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn’t remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to ’em in a minute.
I have sung at Christmas many times in Finland, especially in churches.
When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it’s truly awesome and very powerful.
There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.
There’s so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they’re sung.
There is a myth that Rahman sir only works at night. He works through the day and night, so it depends what time slot you end up working with him. Besides nights, I have sung for him in the morning and at noon, too. I think he’s the first composer to work at night, and that’s why it’s spoken about so much.
I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.
The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.
I’m about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she’ll get international exposure, and I’ll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.
‘Kilikal Parannatho’ sung by Rajesh Krishnan, who sung ‘Julie I Love You’ in ‘Chattakari,’ is a personal favourite of mine.
