6/15/2023 0 Comments Led zeppelin logosI only have my more experimental friends to thank for expanding my musical horizons. This was important because the only access to listen to English music organically before that for a kid who grew up in Kerala was WWE wrestler intros. This was also the time when MP3 players became a common sight. That took me to rap and English movies and rejection of everything that I was used to till then. Then came the late teens and with it a lot of anger which is characteristic of the age. So no, Led Zeppelin or even classic rock did not come naturally to me. This love for the Indian music also came with a disdain towards anything from the west. I learnt carnatic vocals and traditional Kerala percussion for 10+ years and had started performing for an audience at a fairly young age. In conversation with the OG storyteller someone who was born into an orthodox Tam Brahm Family, music meant South Indian Classical and because my Amma was a film music buff and could identify old Malayalam music even from the intro, I had a fairly good exposure to South Indian film music too.
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