I don't see Arijit Singh as a competition at all. That's because we both have a very different style of singing. In fact, I really appreciate what he's been able to bring to the playback singing industry.
I always enjoyed singing and working with the late Kishore Kumar. He was a legendary playback singer, an actor, and a producer/director.
It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.
I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an actor.
Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.
There is no Croatian dream. There is no European Union dream. There is no Chinese communist dream, except maybe to get out. But there is and always has been an American dream. And the dream is possible. The dream can become real.
I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.
I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.
For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.
It has been a dream of mine to be a singer, and now I'm living this dream, singing some beautiful songs and winning people's hearts with my voice.
I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.
When I came to Mumbai, I realised an individual should be versatile, and in playback singing you have different genres where you can explore yourself.
I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.
I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.
In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
When people hear you singing songs which are done as playback, they don't see you. But when you perform live, they expect you to be interacting with them.