I got a chance to host a musical programme called “Hridayapoorvam” in All India Radio, Thrissur station, for one day. In this programme, I will be presenting some of my favorite Malayalam film songs with an introduction to each song and I will also be singing the first couple of lines of each song. The audio was recorded on Saturday at AIR’s music studio and the programme will be broadcast on April 3rd, Sunday, at 9:45 AM in All India Radio, Thrissur station. Those of you in and around Thrissur, please do listen and let me know how it did it go.
I have great memories of the music studio at AIR, Thrissur. My first composition, a devotional song, was recorded in that studio. It was during the same time then too (March-April). Our Church choir was regularly invited to record for Easter or Good Friday and that year we had a set of 5 songs to record, two of which I had written, composed and sung. It was an accidental thing. I had these two songs with me for sometime but they never got published. And when the Choir had the opportunity to record at AIR, we had to make new songs. George chettan, our keyboardist who also played in the music troupes those days were busy with his album recording works. So he had little time to spent on this and he asked if any of us had any songs ready with us. So my friend Lindsie told George chettan that I have two songs ready. When he heard the songs he liked it and was ready to orchestrate the songs. So there I had my luck. To publish my first ever composition and another one through All India Radio on a Maundy Thursday morning. 🙂
It felt good to sit in that studio one more time and this time after the initial nervousness, I think I did fine. 🙂