Ganesh Aaglave writes:
In an exclusive conversation with Firstpost, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan revisited the special moment when Shakti band won the Grammy award and shared special traits of his band members
In the latest edition of Grammys 2024, a history was created, which put India on the global map. Yes, John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain, Ganesh Rajagopalan and V. Selvaganesh’s Shakti band won the Best Global Album Award for their first studio album ‘This Moment’.
In an exclusive conversation with Firstpost, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan revisited the special moment when they won the Grammy award and shared special traits of his band members…Edited excerpts from the interview:
The moment when the big announcement happened
We don’t remember, we just remember this moment Shakti. There was so much and there was a huge contingent our own contingent there were about 20-25 people who came for that award function from different parts of the world. So, they were all rooting you know like they were like jumping more than us I mean as you said no like it was it was not not our award it was an award for India like you know so every Indian out there was celebrating and everyone as much as we were doing it we could see that everybody was celebrating as if they won it I mean they won it yes it’s for India.
Read the interview in Firstpost.