Already a reputed establish inside the Singapore music circuit, Suthasini Rajenderan added one different feather to her cap by turning into the first female artist to compose Medicacorp’s official Deepavali music: Vanthuruchu Deepavali, which premiered at Amarkala Deepavali 2024 event, the Singapore-based agency’s Diwali countdown current.
For 13 years, the official Deepavali soundtrack for Mediacorp was composed by a couple of of Singapore’s greatest male composers. On the 14th yr, it broke the event and created a milestone, paving method for a female to paved the way in which!
Suthasini, who first gained nationwide recognition by worthwhile Vasantham Star — a singing opponents hosted by Mediacorp — in 2011, teamed up collectively along with her husband Vishnu Balaji and budding artistes Darshna Mahadevan, Pallavi Jyothish and Soorya Anand for the peppy monitor.
The multi-talented artist spoke fully to Connected to India ahead of Diwali, which is broadly identified broadly in Singapore, with a variety of areas inside the city-state current course of a change to go properly with the festive mood.
Asked why it took so prolonged for a gender-equal nation like Singapore to have a woman compose the Diwali monitor, Suthasini says, “I would say we are almost gender equal because we are getting there. (It is) definitely way better than (it was) 10 years or 15 years ago… but it takes a lot of time for a woman to gain the trust, because it’s like many years, decades of male dominated industry.”
“Females are slowly catching up,” she gives.
“It takes a while for them to gain the trust… or rather give them the assurance, that I’m able to pull it off, because I have been doing our singles for many years, actually. So yeah, I think it took time,” she gives.
Talking regarding the singers, Suthasini says she wished a combination of mature and up to date voices and due to this fact veteran Vishnu Balaji and the three newcomers had been preferred.
Talking about his journey, Soorya Anand, who was the runners up at Yaar Antha Star 2024, says he wasn’t anticipating to be a part of the lineup, nevertheless grabbed the prospect when the composer texted him.
Watch the Spotlight interview below.
(The article is revealed under a mutual content material materials partnership affiliation between The Free Press Journal and Connected To India)
