For Rahman, who had never attended college, the event hosted by the Berklee College of Music must have seemed humbling.
Sreehari Nair lists some movies, documentaries, recorded-performance films, and literature and music suggestions that might help.
'There were no singers like Lata, Kishore, Rafi or Mukesh. And until now, there is nobody. Nobody with that kind of voice, nobody with that kind of brain to learn. Not only to learn, but to improvise. We improvised music, we improvised the songs. Nowadays, they just listen and copy.'
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