It is official now, Coke Studio India is being currently recorded and will be aired on MTV in June. It is reported that Leslie Lewis is going to be the mentor/technical director of the Indian edition and it would be interesting to see how he compares with Rohail Hyatt who has been successfully bring in great reviews for the Pakistani version in the last 3 seasons with number 4 to begin soon.
If you have not idea what Coke Studio is and have never seen/experienced it, you have been missing out on a show which is actually of, for and about music. It bring in the fusion of different styles of music mixing the classical with the modern, folk with the popular and provides a platform for artist widely known to the underground and upcoming ones. The show is about music and there are no judges, no voting and no auditions which makes it more appealing.
The indian line up has just been confirmed and are as follows:
Shaan, Shafqat Aamanat Ali, Shankar Mahadevan, Sunidhi Chauhan, KK, Hariharan, Kailash Kher, Colonial Cousins, Richa Sharma, Bombay Jayshree, along with folk legends of the likes of Khogen Das, Wadali Brothers, Rashid Khan, Sabri Brothers and upcoming talents like Advaitha, Shruthi Pathak, Chinna Ponnu, Harshdeep.
I hope we keep it more musical and less commercial and get to see a bit more folk songs and less movie songs.
My next entry is going to be my selection of the best five songs from Coke Studio.
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