Sutej Singh is the latest success story from the tribe of indie musicians catering to the evolving music scene in India
THE RELEASE of the single ‘Creep’ was a landmark moment in the history of Radiohead. Though critically reviled, the song topped the international charts and put the rock band on the map. Creep was definitely not their favourite number, with the lead singer Thom Yorke dubbing it “crap”. He is not the first artist, and certainly won’t be the last, to feel retrospective shame about a landmark composition. Music legends like Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain (Smells Like Teen Spirit) and Oasis’s Liam Gallagher (Wonderwall), would, in their later years, refuse to perform outright some of their most crowd-pleasing bits.
When Sutej Singh from Solan in Himachal Pradesh decided to embark on a solo album project, he had one thought in mind. “It has to be a record that I could listen to a thousand times,” he says. His sprawling debut collection, The Emerging, which was released in June, topped the Apple music charts, earning plaudits from actor Katrina Kaif. “Incredible. After sometime, heard something so amazing,” she wrote on Instagram.
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