Raga The Rnb- Beginning of my musical journey (Pt-1)
Hi!
This is
Raga (Anurag Atwal).
I am a
singer, songwriter, music producer and mix engineer at from New Delhi, India. I
started my musical journey few years back when I was in college. I have done
engineering in Electrical & Electronics but my interest was always in
music.
Raga The Rnb |
About
my childhood
I grew
up listening to Indian music as I am born in India so I had my first musical exposure
to Indian music only. I got inspired from singers like Sonu Nigam, Shaan, Adnan Sami and many more.
I used
to try to sing at home when I was a kid. I never went to a music school as we
didn’t have enough money to afford that so I used to listen to music on
cassettes that was the only way I used to practice. When I was in high school I
started listening to English music and I remember I heard Michael Jackson’s
song Billie Jean he became my inspiration. I used to listen to 80’s music,
Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, Linkin Park, Latin music and Chinese music as
well. Those were good times and music was taking over my heart and mind.
About
my adulthood
Soon
after starting my college I started a band named D18 with my friends. We started with
Hip-hop music and I started as Rnb artist. Rnb to me is Soulful singing.
Michael Jackson, Chris Brown and Backstreet Boys (though it was Pop music)
inspired me. I made many songs in two years though I didn’t have money for
recording songs but the desire in me to make music was bigger than any
circumstances or obstacles so I borrowed a mic from a friend and I watched some
tutorials on YouTube. At that time the internet used to be very slow and there
were not enough tutorials like we have now. It used to take a lot of time for
video to buffer but I was patient. An artist should always have patience and I
firmly believe that patience is the key to success. After watching some
tutorials I plugged the mic to the PC and I used Acoustica mixcraft software, Reaper, Adobe Audition, Magix Samplitude etc. for mixing. I implemented
all the things I have learned from tutorials and with that we created our very
first song. It was a Eureka moment for me. We were very glad and excited to
make our first song and to hear our voices in a song for the first time. We
were also very excited about the idea that what will be the reaction of people
to our song.
We faced
a lot of criticism but we never let it stopped us or demotivate us and I kept
moving forward. In around 2-3 years I made 20-25 tracks with my band. We used
to put our songs on MySpace.com at that time (6 years back) all new artists
used to put their songs on MySpace. It was an audio streaming website where
artist used to receive feedback and comments on the songs.
The
whole concept of creating a song was to download some beats from YouTube and
write the lyrics on that. We used to write our own lyrics and everyone used to
write lyrics for what they want to sing in the song.
Everything
was going nice and easy but not for long ……………….. To be continued.