Sonu Niigaam Ji tweets up a storm !!

After a major copyright issue, Sonu Niigaam Ji has now turned his focus towards music giants T-Series, which has been promoting Sonu Ji's album Yeh Naya Naya as a new album, and Sonu Ji informs that the company is misguiding listeners. He says the album was recorded way back in 1994 and has no new songs as the part of the package.

The social networking site Twitter helped him reach out to fans, followers, and media alike by posting, “Attention Attention!! My new album Yeh Naya Naya by T-Series, is not new at all. It was recorded in 1994, my earliest ever work, and if a company is misleading you, it's my duty as an artiste to clarify this. The singer further goes on to say, "Since a lot of u will buy it thinking this is my latest offering to you. Buy it for sure, but not because it is new, but because it is ancient."

The album Yeh Naya Naya comprises of eight tracks rendered by Sonu Niigaam Ji along with other singers including- Hema Sardesai, Kavita Krishnamoorthy, Sadhna Sargam and Shankar Mahadevan.

When contacted the music giant, T-Series president - marketing media publishing (TV) Vinod Bhanushali clarified, "It is in fact a compilation album. Even in the past, we have launched many of his compilations and hence it is nothing new. We are, anyway, not planning to promote the album too much," he added refusing to say anything further on the issue...

Album Sanchari launched !!

The Raj and Bianca Desai starrer Sanchari had its music launch recently. The launch was held in Bangalore on Monday.

The album was released by renowned producer K. Manju. The film has been produced by Nagaraja Reddy and his brother Prabhakara Reddy, Lakshmaiah and Ramappa are the co-producers. Directed by Kiran Govi of Payana fame, Sanchari stars Telugu actor Subburaj, Dilipraj, Rangayana Raghu, Bullet Prakash, Dharma, Satyajith, Aravind, Ramesh Babu, Sashikala and Ranadheera Venkatesh.

The music has been scored by Arjun. The album has five songs sung by Sonu Niigaam Ji, Shreya Ghoshal, Mohamad Aslam, Anuradha Bhat & Malathi. Jhenkar Audio has released the album for sale.
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Director Kiran Goyi was keen about the music of his second film, Sanchari. He wanted the music of the film to be completed before the shooting started.

Kiran Goyi desired for Sonu Niigaam Ji to sing one of the songs. But unfortunately, Sonu Ji was in the US and could not come for the recording. But the director didn’t even let that come in the way.

He asked Sonu Ji to sing on a web camera. The music has apparently come out well. The music of the album is being composed by Arjun Goyi...

Sonu Niigaam Ji's album Ye Naya Naya -- Out now!!

Sonu Niigaam Ji's album Ye Naya Naya  is out now by one of the leading music label company T Series..

The album is not a new recording but it was Sonu Ji's ancient work back in 1994.. But Sonu Ji says that don't buy it just because it's a new album. Do take your copies because it's something very ancient and very good work of melodies..

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Here's the tracklist of the album :--

01 Yeh Naya Naya - Sonu Niigaam Ji & Hema Sardesai

02 Naino Mein Tere Hain Sapne - Sonu Niigaam Ji & Hema Sardesai

03 Kabhi Tum Lage Zindagi - Kavita Krishnamurthy

04 Socha Sau Dafa - Sonu Niigaam Ji

05 Yeh Mera Dil - Shankar Mahadevan

06 Mera Dil Chahe - Sonu Niigaam Ji

07 Jaage Tere Sapne - Sonu Niigaam Ji & Kavita Krishnamurthy

08 Koi Baat Nahin - Sonu Niigaam Ji & Sadhna Sargam

Music by : Raju Singh..

Do have your copies today!!

Enjoy!!

Sonu Niigaam Ji sings for the Pakistani movie Devdas ...

The youth icon and the international singer Sonu Niigaam Ji given His melodious voice to the Pakistani movie Devdas!!

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The other singers who have sung the songs in the movie are Asha Bhosle, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik & Shreya Ghoshal..

Sonu Ji says that this is not the first time I've sung for any Pakistani movie.. Music Director Uttam Singh (Dil To Pagal Hai, Gadar fame) asked Sonu Ji to sing the songs for the movie.. Songs were recorded at Suresh Wadekar Ji's studio in Mumbai..

Here's the tracklist of the movie -----------

1. (00:04:59) Sonu Niigaam Ji - Shola Tha Jal Bujha Hoon

2. (00:05:09) Kavita Krishnamurthy - Mere Dewana Pan

3. (00:04:23) Kavita Krishnamurthy - Tere Deeda Huwa

4. (00:05:28) Shreya Ghoshal - Kaise Jeeongi Bin Tere

5. (00:05:29) Asha Bhosley - Aa Paas Aaa

6. (00:06:04) Alka Yagnik - Teri Main Deewani Hoon

7. (00:06:00) Kavita Krishnamurthy - Shreya Ghoshal - Kahe Tum Sung

8. (00:01:24) Sonu Niigaam Ji - Shola Tha Jal Bujha Hoon (Sad Version)

9. (00:04:57) Sonu Niigaam Ji - Shola Tha Jal Bujha Hoon

 

The music is already released in Pakistan and soon will be out worldwide.. 

 

Enjoy!! Cheers!!

Sonu Niigaam Ji escapes unhurt during stage show ....

Bollywood playback singer Sonu Niigaam Ji narrowly escaped from getting his face burnt during a stage performance here. The 36-year-old singer was performing at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg, when he accidentally stepped into the path of one of the flamethrowers at the edge of the stage.

"What are you doing, man? Do you want me to burn my face?," a clearly irritated Sonu Ji told the technicians from stage before continuing with his performance. The firework was part of singer''s show, which was a blazing display of colour and dance.

The singer, known for hits like ''Suraj Hua Maddham'', ''Deewana'', ''Kal Ho Naa Ho'', thrilled the audience by mixing English and Indian songs in a unique way to dance moves that included steps popularised by Michael Jackson and Shammi Kapoor. Sonu Ji was also joined onstage by his young son Neevan for a cute rendition of the popular song ''All is Well'' and his father, who rendered a few golden oldies.

The singer also had a concert in Cape Town on Saturday and will do one more in Durban on Friday...

May God bless HIM with lots of good health and a very long and happy life!!

Sonu Ji at the album launch of Shibani Kashyap !!!

There might be fighting and bad-mouthing between two people from the same industry, but there was none of that to be seen at Shibani Kashyap’s music album launch at Cinemax, Infinity Mall, Andheri on Tuesday.

For starters, co-singer Sonu Niigaam Ji  did the honours and cut the red ribbon, after which he joined Shibani on stage for an entertaining musical duet. This was Shibani’s first album for the Mumbai-based ASA music label. Titled ‘My Free Spirit’, the album has nine outstanding tracks including a remix. There are four tracks composed by Justin and Uday (which Shibani describes as “refreshing compositions”), one by Santosh Nair, two by Shibani herself and a song from the original disco emperor, Bappi Lahiri, who has composed and sung on ‘Disco’ with Shibani, with a remix of the song provided by DJ Nakul Shourie.

Enjoying this musical magic were a host of musicians including Rabbi Shergill, Mika Singh, Manasi Scott and DJ Ishq Bector and a number of Shibani’s buddies including Siddharth Kannan and Suchitra Pillai. Co-hosts Vikram Bhatt and Suresh Thomas ensured that the night was a super success..

 

http://www.hamaraphotos.com/photo_-328522.html

Singing Maestro Sonu Niigaam Ji & Shruti Pathak to perform at South Africa ...

Yes, it's Indian singing maestro Sonu Niigaam Ji and Shruti Pathak for a trio of concerts made possible courtesy of AA Media.

The Kal Ho Na Ho industry big-wig and Shruti will arrive in Cape Town in two days ready to rock 'n roll.

The duo will perform at the Goodhope Centre in Cape Town on Saturday, March 20; at Emperor's Palace Casino in Johannesburg on Sunday, March 21 (Human Rights Day); and at the International Convention Centre in Durban on Friday, March 26. All shows start at 7pm and doors open at 5pm.

The title sponsors of the tour are Vodacom and Emperor's Palace, in association with Zee TV and print media partner POST.

Tickets, which cost R150, R250, R350, R500 and R1 000, are available at Computicket on 083 915 8000 and Shoprite Checkers stores.

For tickets in Durban, head for AA Bollywood Entertainment stores in Brickfield Road, Overport; Mountbatten Drive, Reservoir Hills; or African Palms in Palm Boulevard, Umhlanga. Tickets in Jozi can also be purchased at Emperor's Palace. To win a set of tickets to the shows in Durban or Johannesburg, or to bag a CD, courtesy of AA Media, get your copy of POST next week...

Cheers!!

Sonu Niigaam Ji coming up with 2 new chillax hits

Sonu Niigaam Ji sings 2 songs for JAANE KAHAN SE AAYI HAI  releasing on 9th of April....

Cast:

Riteish Deshmukh, Ruslaan Mumtaz,Jacqueline Fernandez, Vishal Malhotra,Sonal Seghal, Farah Khan, Satish Shah,Supriya Pilgaonkar

                                      Crew

Cinematographer:

Attar Singh Saini

Publicity Designer:

Sucharita Sengupta, Glamour Design Studio

Story Writer:

Milap Zaveri

Sound Designer:

Jagmohan Anand

Director:

Milap Zaveri

Producer:

Mukesh Talreja, Nikhil Advani

Banner:

People Tree

                                     Music

Music Director:

Sajid-Wajid

Lyricist:

Sameer

Track list :
01 - Keh Do Zara ~ Rashid Ali (05:01)
02 - Nacha Main ~ Sonu Niigaam, Soumya Raoh (04:53)
03 - Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai ~ Shaan (04:45)
04 - Koi Rok Bhi Lo ~ Sonu Niigaam, Sunidhi Chauhan (05:09)
05 - Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai (Remix) ~ Shaan (04:45)
06 - Keh Do Zara (Remix) ~ Rashid Ali (03:32)

Sonu Niigaam Ji at the launch of String Struck album !!

The iconic singer Sonu Niigaam Ji  was present at the launch of String Struck music album recently in Mumbai..

Other celebs present at the event were Jagjit Singh, Purbayan Chatterji, Shankar Mahadevan, Shweta Pandit.. 

http://indiainteracts.in/newplatform/35729/STRING-STRUCK-Album-Launch.html

Enjoy!!

Sonu Niigaam Ji speaks about His concerts ...

One of India's biggest Bollywood actors, stage performers and playback singers Sonu Niigaam Ji spoke to BBC Radio Sheffield's Mushtaq Tufail in March 2010 about his stage performances...


Sonu Niigaam Ji's interview

Sonu Niigaam Ji snaps back at industry on copyright

After the much hyped spat between singer Sonu Niigaam Ji and producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra over royalty share for singers at the last Copyright panel committee meeting early this week, the singer bared his heart on a social networking site. Sonu Ji posted a note this morning talking about the copyright issue and suppressed state of creative artistes in the country. Read on-

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Wake Up India from the slumber - Sonu Niigaam
All the producers, director, composers, lyrics writers present in the meeting, are witness to the fact that I never spoke about singers to get 25 per cent Royalties. That's a misquote by the media. Its the composers and lyrics writer's royalties that are confiscated by the music companies 100 per cent, and all we all were proposing was a fair split where in the producer being the funder, gets 50 per cent and rest 50 per cent split between the composers and the lyrics writers! How much more fair anyone wants us to get when in the rest of the world, 100 per cent goes to the composers and lyrics writers.!! We are not even discussing singers at this point.!

My favorite actor, whom I consider like my spiritual elder brother, who is known to be fair generally,.. just proposed to someone secretively, “forget it....give these guys one per cent.....“ What a magnanimous contribution!! My favorite actor!!!! Wow!! God bless all of them. I have anyways decided to live outside this country, a country that is too shy to give its artistes, their dues doesn't deserve purists like myself!. No wonder Ravishankarji, Zakirbhai, etc live abroad. I only feel bad for the future artistes, who will have to be subjected to this feudalistic arm twisting, if proper amendments are not made now. And the people who treat music as prayer and not a glamour driven activity.. Wake up India from the slumber!!

Love,
Sonu Niigaam

SO-NEW NIIGAAM Ji

Sonu Niigaam Ji is a less angry, more confident man today and he owes the transformation to a book

 Leafing through the pages of a book, Sonu Niigaam Ji looks up and says, "This is what changed my life forever." Authored by Richard Carlson, the title reads: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff… and it's all small stuff. Sonu Niigaam Ji recounts the eve of his 30th birthday, which he celebrated at the Miami airport, "I decided to gift myself something. I went to a bookshop and approached the lady at the paying counter with three books that I'd chosen. 'Nice choice,' she said, 'but you've got to try this one’, and handed me this book by Carlson. 'I'm not getting an extra cut on this one. It's truly brilliant!' she said. The three-and-a-half hour-long flight that followed reaffirmed all that I had known but had hesitated to believe. While reading this book, whenever I'd pause with a question, the answer would be right there in the following pages." 

AAGE SE RIGHT 

Sonu Niigaam Ji admits that as a kid, he would often observe others behave a certain way and would wonder why he acted differently. He says, "These questions remained unanswered and childhood just passed me by. Born in a typical lower middle class family, we started keeping domestic help at home only 1993 onwards. I grew up saying thank you to anyone who would take my food plate away or offer to iron my clothes. From washing my own undergarments to picking up the utensils I ate in, I had always led my life a certain away. Some of my friends found it funny and I started questioning my habits, until decades later, I chanced upon this book. It didn't teach me how to treat my help as equals; it taught me to trust my own opinions. In one chapter, the author talks of sweeping the streets one fine morning, just to see what it felt like. This book redefined my naive definition of 'being cool'." 

AS GOOD AS IT GETS 
As for added advantages, the book seems to have worked wonders on Sonu Ji's temper too. He says, "While trying to become a singer, I encountered some of the worst people who tried to bully me, pull me down by calling me a 'baccha' in the industry, and the result was extreme anger and frustration. A chapter in this book told me how to picture things differently. The trick is to look at the person who you're angry with as though he/she were an infant. When you picture this, you realise how he too must have gone crying to his mother on being bullied by someone in school. The anger vanishes instantly. You're automatically 'above' him and that is an immense source of confidence." Sonu Niigaam Ji claims to have become a calmer person now. Earlier, things would affect him easily and would make him temperamental. He says, "Now, I've actually started driving my car not to reach from point A to point B but to enjoy the ride itself, despite the Mumbai traffic. Think about it. If you are not in a hurry, why treat every drive of your life as an ordeal?"

Sonu Niigaam Ji, now in the copyright panel ...

The ten member panel formed by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal is undergoing changes and is in the process of being restructured. The ministry is including members from different realms to make it balanced.
In the last meeting that transpired on Tuesday, 2nd February, four new members- singers Sonu Niigaam Ji, Jagjit Singh and directors- Ken Ghosh and Madhur Bhandarkar were added to the panel...


T-Series head honcho Bhushan Kumar says, “The copyright amendment came as a shock for the industry as we were not consulted before proposing the amendment. We are in talks with the composers, lyricists addressing the limitations of the proposed amendments.”

Music composer Ram Sampath who was part of the earlier panel and is no longer a member mentions, “The panel has been re framed according to call taken by the ministry to add more writers, producers, composers.” Sampath has been replaced to include renowned lyricist Gulzar.
Says Sampath, “More members would be added to the panel as the consensus is to protect the musical heritage of India. The idea is to expand the ambit of members in the panel- it would now include musicians from the classical music, non-film genre and writers, musicians not essentially from the Bollywood sphere.”
The idea for a larger panel was mooted as the producers felt under represented and the members agreed amicably for expansion with balanced representation. Sources mention names like Shubha Mudgal, Ustaad Rashid Ali Khan, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma might sprung up to re frame the new panel...


Revealing the deadlock at the last meeting, Bhushan Kumar states, “We discussed the issue of non assignable rights with the composers and lyricists explaining them the drawbacks in adapting it. It would hinder revenue options for artists in far flung places as it is not feasible for labels to approach them every time they need to exploit the music.”

Terming the revenue share as unreasonable, Kumar says, “Music labels are not in a position to provide a revenue share to composers, lyricists without recovering the basic cost. Also, music labels invest in music looking at the star cast in the film and not essentially the lyricist and composer involved in the project. Without star pool, it is difficult to sell ringtones, music videos and the recovery is low.”

"I don't choose songs, Songs choose me --- Sonu Niigaam Ji"

One of India's biggest Bollywood actors, stage performers and playback singers Sonu Niigaam Ji spoke to BBC Radio Sheffield's Mushtaq Tufail in March 2010 about HIS stage performances...


Sonu Ji says, "If you behave genuinely with me, I can give my life for you..."


Enjoy this Sonu Ji's exclusive interview...


http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/sheffield/hi/tv_and_radio/newsid_8548000/8548082.stm

Sonu Niigaam Ji's Rotterdam Interview Part - 1

Sonu Niigaam Ji's Rotterdam Interview Part - 2

Sonu Niigaam Ji's Rotterdam Interview - Part 3

Sonu Niigaam Ji before the concert - Netherlands, Ahoy (Rotterdam, Holland)

 
Sonu Niigaam Ji before his concert in Rotterdam. In the first part of the interview, the singer talked about the copyright issues that have recently been raised in Bollywood. Writers, composers and lyricists want to make amendments to the current copyright act of 1957. According to this act, they do not get any royalties for their songs for the years to come. While producers and music companies are making money, these talented and integral parts of the music produced in Bollywood have to fight for their rights to this money. India is the only country that doesn't honour them; everywhere else in the world, all the parties behind a musical piece get royalties for their contribution.
Sonu Niigaam Ji explained that he met with Aamir Khan last week before his trip to Holland to talk about this issue extensively. Aamir recently said that actors are the ones who are the real stars and they are the ones who make the songs hits, irrespective of good lyrics or tunes. Sonu Niigaam Ji didn't like the comment and decided to talk to him about the issue. "Aamir is a good friend of mine and I love him very much, that is why I went to talk to him."

In our interview with Sonu Niigaam Ji he said it is an old tradition in our country that one guy sings and the "star" lip-syncs. This doesn't happen in any other country. Sonu Niigaam Ji added that he told Aamir that if he feels this way, he should stop using songs in his films. "Every film is promoted by using the songs. Aamir wanted to understand but he doesn't know that in the whole world, there isn't one country that has the same policy that is being used in India. Music industries are a separate business."

According to Sonu Niigaam Ji, Indian films shouldn't have songs. Because of the Hindi film songs, the private music industry isn't doing well. "There is no independent music industry in our country because of film music. Film music has killed ghazals, has killed classical, has killed any other kind of pop music or bhangra music or whatever."
Sonu Niigaam Ji is fighting for these copyright amendments being made. "Actors and producers of course have their own reasons for not letting this happen, because when the amendments are made they are going to lose a lot of money. But it is not only a money issue, it is more about what is right and what is wrong." He added that many people are involved in making one song. There are singers, actors, composers and lyricists, but sometimes the credit only goes to the actor. "Also most of the money earned by sales of the audio CD goes to the music company. In our country the credit mostly doesn't go to the musicians, but to actors, producers and directors.

He said that in the whole world there is this rule, that composers and lyricists get royalties of the songs they compose and write. "Only in India this doesn't happen." He spoke about the wife of composer Khemchand Prakash. "She has died while begging in front of a radio station, because they didn't get any royalties. That is why we want everyone to get royalties. So that we don't have to worry about our old age, because we will be ensured of an income."