How To Kickstart Your Singing (& Music Composition) Career In Bollywood - w/ Trishita
In this episode, featured not-expert is Trishita Recs. Trishita is an award-winning playback singer and songwriter whose work has been featured on Netflix, HotStar and Zee5 among other notable places such as live events and concerts.
Perhaps like most of you all out there, one of my longest-standing loves in life has been my love for music. However, I’ve always been fascinated by what its like to produce music. Trishita walks us thru how she was exposed to the world of music as a child though singing reality TV shows, and how she continued to navigate her complex relationship with music into teenage and adulthood. We go over her process for coming up with new songs, performing live, and balancing the art with the business side of things - such as landing gigs, finding work and forging a sustainable income source through her talent.
Indeed, it was rather eye-opening to contextualize the struggle artists face and by the end of this episode, you will definitely learn to appreciate the grit and determination it takes to make it.
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Resources: Trishita - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4lB0A51UgKHZ00Uhuta9K4 Trishita's instagram - https://www.instagram.com/trishitarecs/
Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction + Background (02:38) Can people without any inherent singing talent be good singers? (04:23) Getting into singing during early childhood (07:52) Being a child star on a singing reality TV show - Mummy Ke Superstars (11:44) Taking a step away from singing - rediscovering the passion (14:57) Resuming singing journey as an adult (17:19) Inherent sexism in Bollywood - even the music (19:32) On producing music - how do the pros do it? (22:53) Teaching yourself composition + production skills as a singer (25:56) How to compose music digitally? (the "accepted" way to do it) (29:57) On being felicitated by Netflix - Win Story #1 (33:26) Impromptu music video for first original track - Win Story #2 (36:36) On emotional impact that really matters - Win Story #3 (39:50) Defining success (& fame) in the music industry (41:59) Making it in Mumbai (45:28) Standing out on Instagram (50:50) On going VIRAL on YouTube (15 Million views on original track) (54:04) What's new for Trishita Recs? (58:14) Shoutout to Ankan (@trippy_snapper_ on instagram) (58:58) Outro + Gratitude
