A big fan of Ghulam
Ali, singer Javed Ali,
known for the hit song “Jashn-e-bahaaraan”, is confident that ghazals will not die a silent death. He is all set to release his debut ghazal album.
“I will make a ghazal album. I have a taste for ghazals and I like them. Within a few months, I will release one,” Ali told IANS.
Talking about the fading away of ghazals with the demise of Mehdi Hassan and Jagjit Singh, he said that nowadays there are “upbeat songs” as people want to make “the audiences sing and dance with them immediately”.
“Ghazals have a different audience and I know that the era of ghazals will come back for sure,” he added saying he also wanted to be a ghazal singer.
“When when I was young, I used to listen to his (Ghulam Ali) ghazals. I used to think that I will become like him one day. But then I came into the film industry, I got the concept of world music. I have sung all kinds of songs – be it ghazals, qawwalis, romantic numbers or peppy numbers,” he said.
It is often said that today’s songs have less shelf life and Ali blames the volume. (IANS)