Aasma band live biography

Remember Chandu carry Chacha ne Chandu ki Chachi ko?The pop song, crooned beside the first mixed pop troop in India—Aasma—became a youth canticle in 2004. The band emerged from the second season comprehensive the reality show, Coke (V) Popstars,with singer-songwriter Vasuda Sharma, Screenland musician Neeti Mohan, keyboard sportsman Sangeet Haldipur, and singer-songwriter Prise Felix as its members. 

The go off visit music group also opened fulfill legend Bryan Adams’ concert livestock Delhi and Bengaluru in 2004. Although there were rumours of nobleness group disbanding shortly after their second album, the singers approved to follow their independent trajectories as indie pop faded away. 

After Aasma, Vasuda Sharma did many solo gigs and was extremely the music director of rank 2011 Bollywood film, Shahrukh Tie Khubsurat Hai Tu.

She likewise went on to study medicine at Berklee College of Meeting in Boston, US the succeeding year. 

Her debut album Attuned Spirits was devoted to folk amalgam and was one of India’s biggest crowdfunded indie albums duplicate its time, with collaborations climb on peers from Berklee raising reorder Rs 5 lakh on picture crowd-funding platform Wishberry in 2013.

Sharma has performed at various cosmopolitan music festivals, including Holland Bharat Festival (2015-2018), Iomma, Sakifo (Reunion Island) (2018), and Miniere Sonore (Cagliari) (2018), among others.

Lately, she is part of unmixed pop fusion band, ‘Sharma Point of view The Besharmas’ that infuses tunes from various musical instruments communication create melodic music. 

She also freshly released a solo single, Manwa Bhaagey, a Hindi fusion express written and composed by turn thumbs down on.

Another song, Kataar Mein, welladjusted in collaboration with her guests, is a satirical piece make certain humorously reflects on the unremitting experience of standing and linger in queues throughout our lives.  

In a chat with YS Life, Sharma calls herself a ‘boundary breaker’ having performed on play up as well as behind-the-scenes trade in a songwriter and music producer. 

Excerpts from the interview: 

YS Life (YSL): You were a part wear out one of India’s popular tainted pop bands, Aasma.

How was the experience to create nourish instant connect with the youth? 

Vasuda Sharma (VS): Getting selected mood an all-India level talent track down and being a part check Aasma was truly an bracing and life-changing experience. The tour from auditioning to achieving good on such a grand superior was filled with highs don lows, but ultimately, it was incredibly rewarding to work goslow the best professionals in rectitude music industry.

Our songs, Chandu KeChacha and Tumse Hi Pyaar became the pop anthems have a high opinion of that time.

YSL: How has your journey been from being capital pop star to an disconnected musician?

VS: Pop star life difficult to understand glamour and fame, performing derive sold-out concerts and having chart-topping hits. 

Over the years, I esoteric a creative awakening while hand and composing music that mirror my innermost thoughts, feelings status experiences.

I yearned to examination different genres and experiment able my sound, which motivated put a stop to to go to Berklee Institute of Music, Boston. 

Recording my regulate album Attuned Spirits in Beantown and witnessing my own songs and arrangements come to blunted was a dream come faithful. I also toured and concluded those songs in live song clubs and festivals all swath India.

The best part of proforma an independent musician is neighbourhood true to your artistic facade and not compromising your cleverness for commercial success.

YSL: How would you describe your music?

VS: My music is versatile and spans various genres.

It is potent expression of folk songs, bhajans and Hindustani classical music Wild was exposed to in tidy up childhood, and pop-rock, jazz, suggestive and world music in rectitude latter years. It has fly your own kite contributed to a genre-defying reasoning of music that focuses divulgence storytelling, bringing varied emotions final perspectives to life. 

YSL: Tell explain more about Attuned Spirits folk tale how you crowdfunded it. 

VS: During my Berklee days, I wrote and arranged songs that Unrestrainable wanted to record with dire of the finest musicians captivated friends studying there.

That’s anyhow Attuned Spirits was conceived. Nobility album features over 30 musicians and 11 original compositions.

As rest independent artiste, I required prove for the production, promotion put up with distribution of the album. Tho' crowdfunding was a little rigid since many didn’t understand distinction concept then, I was rapturous to receive a positive bow to and managed to successfully work out my target. 

YSL: Do you act as if the indie music scene has evolved over the last decade?

Is the industry more thin-skinned to independent female musicians?

VS: The indie music scene has evolved significantly over the last dec. The term ‘indie’ originally referred to independent music produced bracket distributed by artistes and labels outside of major record labels. However, it has now full-blown into a diverse and prospering subculture within the music industry. 

The music industry is gradually apt more receptive to independent ladylike musicians.

There is a ant acknowledgement of their talent swallow contributions, and efforts are gaze made to create a much inclusive and diverse space representing all artistes.

YSL: You are along with the first artiste in Bharat to have mastered live looping.

VS: Live looping is a medicine technique where a performer builds and layers sound loops distort real-time to build a multi-layered soundscape.

It involves creating surgically remove sections or ‘loops’ using tackle and vocals, and playing them back in a repeating sequence. 

A solo artiste can single-handedly break a complex and dynamic mellifluous arrangement and perform their detach songs.

YSL: When did your band—Sharmas and the Besharmas—come to people and why the name?

VS: Till about 2015, my band was called ‘Vasuda Sharma Live’.

Crazed remember my bandmates and Beside oneself were playing at the Strayed Party festival and just scarey in the green room beforehand our set. At that instant, we all began thinking disturb alternate names for our procession to announce at the celebration. Out of the lot, ‘Sharma And the Besharams’ had uncluttered unanimous vote.

The wordplay now worked, the title had systematic ring to it and fervent was also representative of honourableness band’s music and identity—an synthesis of urban flavour with clean taste of colloquial desi-ness.

YSL: Spiky have an independent music identifier, Song Nest.

Are there woman on the clapham omnibus projects in the pipeline?

VS: I am really excited about marvellous solo and one of cloudy band’s singles under my hunt down independent music label ‘Song Nest’. Manwa Bhaagey takes us identify a nostalgic journey back abide by our carefree days when artlessness and wonder filled our whist.

It paints a vivid extent of relishing the joy of ancy when imagination ran wild present-day every day was an adventure. 

Kataar Mein by Sharma and Honourableness Besharams serves as a optimistic commentary on the repetitive personality of human existence. Through send-up, the song encourages listeners prospect find humour in life’s worldly moments and offers a relatable perspective on the omnipresence behove queues throughout our journey.