Those were the days when an aspiring musician would go in search of a Guru, music teacher; yearn for his consent to accept him as disciple; fall at his feet in prostration; sit at his feet for years together learning and practising the art of Naadha Yogaa, the Science of music; sing along with his guru as a support artiste on various stage performances; start his solo performance with Guru’s blessings; have a long professional career and then….. be famous.

This was true in case of all the Classical Carnatic Musician Super Stars like Ariyakudi Ramaanuja Iyengar, Madurai Mani Iyer, M.S.Subbalashmi, M.L.Vasanthakumari, D.K.Pattammal, Maharajapuram Santhaanam, present day frontline singers like Nityashree, Bombay Jayasree, Sudhaa Ragunathan and Arunaa Sairaam. This was also true in case of all the Movie Musician Super Stars including MKT Bhaagavadhar, S.G.Kittappa, P.U.Chinnapa, T.R.Mahaalingam, K.B.Sundaraambaal and our Jesudas. This was all the rule for the cinema music composers too. For instance, the ever great K.V.Mahaadevan of South Cinema was a musician par excellence.

There seems to be a trend today in both classical and cinema music, where, individuals with little or no professionalism at all are occupying professional seats. There seems to be lots of sponsor platforms for them, which, in the name of encouraging novel, young talents bring them to the professional slots hitherto occupied by only trained individuals. We have audio CDs, Video albums with the labels of so many new musicians today. I can name a big list of such non-professional releases that have in them a battery of great Krithis rendered with serious errors on Raaga exposition, flawed Thaalam and wrong pronunciations.

Recently a vocalist known to our family gave me a free gift piece of her album. I was happy about the gift until I heard the Krithis in the album rendered with too many vital technical flaws and poor voice quality. I am more critical on such flawed releases that have a self-created facebook or twitter following that puts genuine professionals in a embarrassing spot who do have a genuine fan following on facebook and twitter.

Thus, while it’s everyone’s right to be famous, release albums or perform on stages, it’s their responsibility to infuse a significant dose of professionalism into their performance. Let’s not forget that Music is a passion and not a fashion; Music is divine and not for ostentation and Music is a Science and not just a noise.

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