Teenage singer in Dubai goes viral on YouTube

Gulf News

This Indian student in Dubai has released 51 covers and two original songs on her YouTube channel at the age of 15. Shirene Sanjay’s first original song, Chalte Chalte, released six months ago, has more than one million views. Not just that. In total, her eponymous channel has received more than three million views since its launch on November 5, 2017.  Full Article here: https://gn24.ae/97a18d6b307a000 See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos #ViralSinger #YouTuber

Transcript

00:00My name is Shireen Sanjay. I'm 15 years old and my journey as a singer, I don't think it's only

00:06about singing. It was more of how I grew up as a person and a lot in character. I became so much

00:13more confident in a way where I would enter parties and everyone there would be like, oh Shireen,

00:19why don't you sing a song for us? And in the beginning, I was more like, do I really want to?

00:24But when they start supporting you, it's very uplifting. So I think that's what really accounts

00:31for a lot. I wanted to get my talent out there as quick as possible. And I think YouTube was the

00:37best way to do that. So we started off with one subscriber and then we used to get like

00:4210 subscribers. We're like, oh, this is good. And then I remember when we reached 100 and we

00:46threw a party and then when we reached 1000 and I was just coming back from tuitions and my mom had

00:53literally gone to a restaurant, asked them to play my song over their radio and then we cut a

00:59cake. And this was on Valentine's last year. So we hit 1000 subscribers on Valentine's and then

01:03this Valentine's we hit 15K. So it's just a beautiful feeling, especially when you get a lot

01:09of support from your parents. It's just, it's amazing. My mom is my lyricist. She's not

01:16professionally trained or anything, but I don't know from where she gets her inspiration. It just

01:22comes to her overnight. I think it's just natural talent because she never really wrote anything

01:27before. But when it came to my coach telling me that she needs to release an original and I was

01:32like, I really need to do it. So my mom just sat down one night. I had no idea what she was doing

01:37behind her laptop. And I'm just sitting there doing my work. I don't really, I'm not bothered

01:41with what she's doing. And the next morning she tells me that your original lyrics are ready. And

01:45I'm like, what? So she's like, yeah, and we go to the studio on a Thursday night. And we figure it

01:53out. And that's when Chalte Chalte came out. I read a lot. So playing with words doesn't come

01:58difficult to me. But I never thought of, you know, rhythms and modulations and all those like, I'm

02:04not a music person at all. So I just sent him a very rough draft of like four or five lines that

02:08I could compose for Chalte Chalte. And he immediately called up and he said, Well, this is beautiful.

02:13Where did you get it? I said, I just composed them. And he's like, I think you should take it

02:18forward. This is really beautiful. So you know, when you get a professional encouragement,

02:22that keeps you going. I mean, I'm just starting. So I'm going to explore my range. I really want

02:28to get really high like something like Beyonce, because I told you, she's like my role model,

02:33I really look up to her.

Category

Transcript

Recommended