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Straight 8 with Shibani Kashyap

Stylish pop diva Shibani Kashyap is currently collaborating with talented musician Rabbi Shergill for a single. What’s playing on your I-pod now

Stylish pop diva Shibani Kashyap is currently collaborating with talented musician Rabbi Shergill for a single.

What’s playing on your I-pod now

Songs of American singer-songwriter and producer John Mayer, British rock band Coldplay and of course, multitalented musician Sting.

Name your following favourites:

Musician: Sting

Singer: Arijit Singh

Composer: A. R. Rahman

What do you tune in, when you feel the following

Low or down: I love listening to British funk and acid jazz band Jamiroquai’s intense album, Virtual Insanity.

Lonely: Sufi exponent Abida Parveen

Happy: It has to be Arijit Singh

Romantic: I love tuning in to a lot of jazz music, especially any piece of classical jazz like that of legendary Nat King Cole or Frank Sinatra or The Doobie Brothers

Favourite musical genres:

Jazz and Sufi

Favourite musical instrument:

Guitar and saxophone

Favourite indie artiste and album:

On the national scene, my favourites are Rabbi Shergill, Kailash Kher, the famous Indian rock band Indian Ocean and the Delhi-based Indian fusion band, Advaita. On the international plane, it is Sting and Sade.

Upcoming Bollywood projects:

I have scored a song for a horror thriller called Plot No 666 and a comic film, What’s On Your Mind. I am also now working on a single track with Rabbi Shergill.

Upcoming stage shows:

There is a concert lined up in Chennai followed with a gig in Chicago this May and then comes two consecutive shows in Istanbul as well as at Indonesia.

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