Courtesy of Teamwork Productions

Jakartans who are into world music can look forward to enjoying a unique performance this weekend with Indian composer and singer Shekhar Ravjiani, along with violinist Deepak Pandit set to perform a tribute concert to the late Indian composer Jagjit Singh on May 6 at 7 p.m. in the Ciputra Artpreneur theater in Lotte Shopping Avenue, Kuningan, South Jakarta.

The “Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi…” concert premiered at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore on Sept. 9, 2016. The upcoming Jakarta show is part of the musician’s 2017 World Tour.

Ravjiani is a well-known singer who has composed soundtracks for over 65 films, including the 2013 action-comedy film Chennai Express starring Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan and his partner Vishal Dadlani. He has also sung a number of songs, including Radha and Meherbaan, which have become popular in India and around the world.

He was trained in music by none other than Singh himself, along with Ustad Niaz Ahmed Khan. Singh, who was born in 1941 and died in 2011, was a composer well-known for the ghazals (poetic songs with rhyming couplets and a refrain with each line sharing the same meter) he wrote. Known as the ghazal king, the singer, composer and musician gained critical acclaim together with his wife, renowned Indian ghazal singer Chitra Singh.

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