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Indian singer KS Chitra talks about her Dubai concert and losing her mentor, SP Balasubrahmanyam
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2/13/2025
National Award-winning Indian singer will pay tribute to Bollywood legends on December 24
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Hi, this is Manjusha from Gulf News Tabloid and today I am in conversation with one of
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the most talented and versatile and long enduring singers of our generation, Chitra.
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Thank you so much for speaking to us.
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Thank you Manjusha.
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It's such a pleasure and I hear that you are going to perform in Dubai.
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I am excited and all my musicians are also really excited.
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This concert is also very special because it's also a tribute and a homage to all these
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good singers.
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How do you choose though?
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I have always wondered when you are choosing such A-list singers as well, what do you pick
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and how difficult is the process to pay tribute to somebody?
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Actually I am leaving the whole responsibility to Naresh ji.
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He is going to do all the best songs because he has so many experience.
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He knows the pulse of the audience.
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So he will choose the correct songs for me and I have to do a lot of practice to perform
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before all of you.
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We are doing it as a tribute to all the legends.
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So I should make sure I should not spoil those songs.
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What is the biggest challenge of a tribute show apart from choosing of songs?
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What do you think in your head?
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How do you prep for it?
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Because they have created a standard.
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So meeting at least 90% or even 80% we should bring that perfection.
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So it is very difficult and we have to do a lot of hard work.
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As an artist, how did you come to terms with the kind of isolation that you feel?
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Because you derive energy from the audience, right?
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Actually I was keeping so busy.
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Just before COVID, I was travelling to Singapore for a reality show.
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So I was fully busy.
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Suddenly when this lockdown came, simply sitting at home, even I was going into slightly, I
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was feeling depressed.
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So I didn't know what I should do.
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Then at that time SPB sir, he spoke to me about, he was doing albums on awareness videos.
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So I thought why should we all sit like this?
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So we should also do something.
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Then I also started, I asked through WhatsApp, I asked all the singers in our group, just
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why don't we sing a song, everyone just one line, one line.
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So we started with Loka Mudvan Sukha Pagadaanai, all the singers cooperated and we did an album
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like this.
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It was actually, it was a tough, it was very difficult to logistically do it, right?
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But somehow we did it and it was, it clicked actually.
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So many people then started doing the same song, different groups, different families.
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So it was, I was inspired actually.
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Then after that, I asked Srikumaran Thambisa, the poet, Thambisa's wife Raji Chechi, I asked
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her whether she can write a few lines for me and we'll do it as an album.
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Just a few lines about COVID, how you can sit inside and what all you can do through
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a song.
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In four different languages, we did, Sharath did music for that album and SPB sir, Shakar
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Mahadevan sir, myself and Sharath, four of us.
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You have also reinvented yourself, you have not just stuck to like my album songs, which
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you're really good at, you've also branched out to Bollywood, you've tried everything.
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How do you do that?
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Like, is that very conscious that I have to reinvent myself every five years or so, so
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that, how do you keep it alive, you know, like the, you're different and your brand,
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you're still, you're such a brand.
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I didn't plan anything, whatever comes to my way, I do it, how much I can do, how much
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effort I can put, I'll do my maximum, that's it.
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