Indie Artist Central

Darshan Pandya

India's No.1 Podcast for Independent Artists

Episodes

  1. 02/07/2021

    Ishaan Nigam on Indian Classical Music and more | Indie Artist Central | Ep. 4 | Darshan Pandya

    Welcome to another episode of #IndieArtistCentral - India's No.1 podcast for independent artists. In today's episode, we have Ishaan Nigam, an extremely talented singer, and songwriter, to discuss his experience of being an independent artist in India, working with M M Keeravani, and much more. Ishaan Nigam is a singer, YouTuber, and live performer based out in Mumbai. He is Sangeet Praveen in Hindustani Classical Music and is a disciple of Shri Ghulam Hasan Khan(Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana). In 2015, he was selected as top 20 musicians from India by UTV Bindass and Disney India to be a part of KMMC (A music institute founded by Dr. A.R. Rahman), Chennai where he along with 20 musicians re-composed and performed the song of Yeh Hai Aashiqui for UTV Bindass. In 2018, he made his debut in Tollywood Music Industry and sung a devotional song Kotah Panta Patha Panta composed by Josyabathla Sarma and it got telecast-ed on the SVBC TTD channel for the program Annamayya Pataku Pattaabhishekam which was conducted by legendary music director Shri MM Keeravani and Shri K Raghavendra Rao. His independent single 'O JAANA'  was featured in reputed newspaper TIMES OF INDIA, 'SAAWARIYA' was featured in ROLLING STONE INDIA edition and 'QAAFIRANA SHAYRANA' got aired on 98.7 RED FM "Red Indies Shuffle" and ROLLING STONE INDIA edition. Make sure you hit the #SUBSCIRBE button and hit the #LIKE button. Also, do let us know in the #COMMENT section below about what you liked and disliked about this podcast. Follow Ishaan Nigam on Social Media : Instagram: https://bit.ly/3cIxgJc YouTube: https://bit.ly/3oSggCN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ryj2hZ Facebook: https://bit.ly/39VRZYf Twitter: https://bit.ly/2MzahFW Follow Darshan Pandya on Social Media : Instagram: https://bit.ly/3sQyU0Z Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3cV8nXC JioSaavn: https://bit.ly/39Ta0Fg Facebook: https://bit.ly/3bL1bgu Twitter: https://bit.ly/2Ye4HKZ Time Stamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:23 Celebrating 30k+ streams on 'Saawariya' 1:50 Ishaan's Musical Journey 9:22 Ishaan's Family's Musical interests 9:45 Ishaan's Favourite kind of Music 10:49 What are the 'Indie' Vibes? 11:44 Ishaan's Live Performance on IAC 15:55 About being a 'Sangeet Praveen' 16:38 About Ishaan's Guruji and Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana 23:47 Being in the Top 20 singers across India 27:09 Working with Disney India and UTV Bindass 28:02 Ishaan's Music-making process 29:54 What instruments Ishaan plays? 30:20 Working in the Tollywood music industry 33:30 Some of the fondest memories of Ishaan 34:09 Music in Bollywood vs Tollywood 36:55 Learning Music Production in Lockdown 37:56 Classical Music complementing Music Production 39:34 Handling mistakes during live performances 40:46 Capturing the 'Feel' in the recording studio 42:29 Being Versatile 43:26 Ishaan's Idols for singing 43:53 Ishaan's Practice Routine 45:22 Current situation of Indie Artists in India 46:41 Sources of Income for Indie Artists 50:06 Dealing with Hate comments on Social Media 50:50 Differentiating b/w constructive and destructive criticism 52:10 Riyaz as meditation: a personal experience 53:27 Is Ishaan a spiritual person? 55:22 How to approach big media houses? 57:39 What is Music for Ishaan? 57:55 Top 5 tips for Indie Artists 59:07 Outro

    Ishaan Nigam on Indian Classical Music and more | Indie Artist Central | Ep. 4 | Darshan Pandya
  2. 01/31/2021

    Shivansh Jindal on 'Pata Nahin' | Indie Artist Central | Ep. 3 | Darshan Pandya

    Welcome to another episode of #IndieArtistCentral - India's No.1 podcast for independent artists. In today's episode, we have Shivansh Jindal, an extremely talented singer and songwriter, to discuss about his experience of being an independent artist in India, working with Salim-Sulaiman, and much more. Shivansh Jindal is a 22 years old singer songwriter from Delhi, graduated from Delhi University. Trained in Hindustani Classical for almost 15 years now and having a knack for involving classical elements in his songwriting, Shivansh writes songs with a contemporary approach and yet with an effort to make classical more accessible to laymen. Shivansh has been an All India Radio and Delhi Doordarshan artist and has won several awards for his solo performances. Shivansh's songwriting is simple with an attempt to capture relatable emotions and his music has a hybrid urban and classical sound. Make sure you hit the #SUBSCIRBE button and hit the #LIKE button. Also, do let us know in the #COMMENT section below about what you liked and disliked about this podcast. Follow Shivansh Jindal on Social Media : Instagram: https://bit.ly/3iXho6F YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pugWz7 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3j9Dvah Facebook: https://bit.ly/3qYMCNB Twitter: https://bit.ly/3agQ4fE Follow Darshan Pandya on Social Media : Instagram: https://bit.ly/3sQyU0Z Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3cV8nXC JioSaavn: https://bit.ly/39Ta0Fg Facebook: https://bit.ly/3bL1bgu Twitter: https://bit.ly/2Ye4HKZ

    Shivansh Jindal on 'Pata Nahin' | Indie Artist Central | Ep. 3 | Darshan Pandya

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