Aloka Kanungo

dancer

nTo be honest, I?m not much for listening to music in the car, as I find that it distracts me from planning out my day?s schedule. But having said that, if I?m going for a long drive, then I do enjoy putting on some music. Loud, jarring music however, is a strict no-no and I always lean towards soothing numbers.

Instrumental music rates on top of my list and Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shiv Kumar Sharma and Bismillah Khan are among my favourite artistes. I own some of their albums, and no matter how many times, I listen to these, I never get tired of them. Among singers, I enjoy listening to Hemanta Mukherjee, Manna De, Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar, though I prefer Asha because of her sheer versatility. I?m not at all familiar with current Hindi music, for I hardly listen to it, on the radio, or otherwise. As you can well understand, as far as I?m concerned, old is gold.