Why is QAZI a phenomenon? Can someone figure it out?
I think people are comparing their favorites to QAZI, since they cannot understand a phenomenon like QAZI. What it takes to be a QAZI!!
Sometimes, it is not just talent which makes a person sucessful or loved by the masses. You need to have something a halo which connects you to the masses that is what QAZI has! Singing is one aspect of it, but great performers and artists need not need to just have singing talents. QAZI has an unique voice which is untrained, but today he is improving by leaps and bounds and has natural talent. Perhaps who knows he may be another KL Saigal or Kishore Kumar, Who would act, sing and dance to their own songs? Who knows! That is his aim though! His voice connects to the masses (atleast it does it for me to a certain level, I cringe at some of the notes he sings, but ignore them, which I would NOT for some other singer because his performance as a whole is so complete and awesome, I have sung on stage, so I know how difficult it is perform, dance and sing at the same time and also keep the audience glued.. He can sell his soul to entertain his audience (perhaps he is like ShahRukh Khan in this manner). That is what connects him..which is a GOD's gift which he got.
I was watching the DYND episode, after the whole episode he sang "Meri Mehbooba", and that performance stole the show! His "Yeh Pal"rendition with out any background music sounded great! His voice is meant for recodings! He has shown us Emotional intelligence is also what matters when one needs to be a WINNER. In this fast consumer driven world (did i hear somewhere, the world is FLAT now?), where HITs and FLOPs matter, he has perhaps shown that we can also have a Singing-Star driven music industry. Even for film music, let us accept the fact that Music albums sells not because it is a Ismail Darbar music sung by a Sonu Nigum..But because it is a ShahRukh Khan Film. That is the bitter truth, perhaps QAZI will make that change, and people will buy music and listen to it because it is a Singing-Superstar QAZI's album.. Gone are the days, when average people would wait and savour music and buy labels.
Today, FM and TV would play them, and the paying public would watch those videos and buy albums.
That is just another side of film and indi-pop industry. I may be wrong, but i have a feeling QAZI is here to stay, and there is enough room for him up there ( on a lighter note...we are a country of 1 billion people so we can accomodate more artists!! ). To each is his own!! QAZI is QAZI!!
No PANNA LAL or HEERA LAL can be a QAZI.. QAZI lead the way and showed the music world that there is more to music than just the sound waves (Simple harmonic motion), the saat surs, aalaaps, taals and the technicalities of voice.. There is something called performance as a whole also...
If an offtune Abhishekh Bachchan can sing his way to the Chart Top in 2005, why cant QAZI be the next singing sensation?? What the heck he already is! BTW, his new album is a SUPERHIT! And to top it all he is an eye-candy too, which helps and is an add on!
PS: I am not a QAZI fan, but am trying to analyse what makes QAZI a winner.
It is my personal opinion no one has to agree..NO OFFENSE!
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