Music has the amazing power to lift you up when you are feeling down. It would be really boring to live in a world without music. There have been cases where music has also been used to heal people who have fallen sick. If you ask anybody how they got rid of the boredom on [...]

Music is his mantra, fame is his name, he is “The Mozart of Madras”. We are talking about A.R.Rahman, whom his fans proclaim to be “The God of Music”. The whole world is waiting for yet another sizzling performance from this Grammy-winning musician. The journey of the Jai Ho Concert begins on 11 June, 2010 [...]

Technological advancements have revolutionized many gadgets. One such old instrument is the phonograph or gramophone. In olden days, the phonographs were used to play the recorded sound. The gramophone record, in which the music albums are recorded, was made from polyvinyl chloride. They are popularly called as vinyl records or tapes. With the invention of [...]

The much-awaited Grammy Awards for 2009 were given away on Sunday, February 8, 2009. Well, it turned out to be a memorable year for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. The duo won five awards, including Album of the Year and Contemporary Folk/Americana Album for their album, “Raising Sand”. They also walked away with the Record of [...]

Pop star Kelly Clarkson rose to number one in US chart history, rising 96 places. With a sale of a whooping 280,000 downloads in its first week of release, her single, My Life Would Suck Without You, topped the Billboard. My Life is the first single from her album, All I Ever Wanted, which will be released [...]

As the saying goes, “Musicians paint their pictures on silence.” India’s music maestro, A. R. Rahman, turned millions speechless with his music for the film, Slumdog Millionaire. The film was directed by Danny Boyle (the director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later) and was well received by moviegoers and critics alike. This film, which is [...]