Shaan speaks up on how nobody wants to get him to sing for them and it’s heartbreaking

The 90’s era was a special one with a few singers like Shaan, Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan and others making it melodious for us. With time, the singers increased and now, even actors have started crooning for some of their songs. The shelf life of singers has decreased and definitely, it’s a scary sight for our senior singers who have mesmerised us with their songs for decades. One amongst them is Shaan who actually addressed these insecurities in an interview on Saavn‘s new talk show Talking Music.

He has spoken his heart out and his thoughts are heartbreaking. He shared, “Today you are as big as your social media following is. So, I’m just holding on to whatever I get as answers, because I really don’t have an answer to why suddenly no one wants to get me to sing for them. It’s not like I had a very dated style of singing or I had a very typical way of singing that I exhausted singing over the years. I have still to find someone who can mimic me, almost every singer has been mimicked. Not that I have had an attitude issue or I’ve been rude with people or I’ve asked for a lot of money. The one good thing no one’s done any great favours for me and I’m happy that I’ve been there for whoever has ever wanted me around. So, in a way, I have no baggage which is good because there was a time when without even knocking at any doors, things were just happening and now for me to do it I almost feel that bolenge… ‘shaan bechaara aake gaana maang raha tha yaar, kya time aa gaya hai na’. I don’t want someone to even come up with something like that.” (Also Read: Shaan on scenario of music in Bollywood: Unstable and unpredictable)

This breaks our heart. How much we miss those good old days of ‘Tanha Dil‘. Shaan’s last popular song that rings in our minds is from the Aamir Khan-starrer ‘PK’ in 2014. Also, we badly miss other singers like Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik who are rarely to be heard these days.

Prajakta Ajgaonkar

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