Chandrasekar Ramaswamy

About Chandrasekar

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Location

Hicksville, NY, USA, Time zone (EST - GMT-5:00).

Bio

Basically, I am from Chennai, married and two lovely kids (a boy and a girl), currently living in USA. My Interest in music started at a very early age, but never got the chance to get properly trained. I had a natural talent to memorize lyrics. I always believed that I could sing well if I hear the song a couple of times. That belief may as well be misplaced when I was younger, but whatever I could sing today is because of that belief and confidence. However, my interest outweighs my talent by a ratio of 100:1.

I used to participate in cultural programmes of all colleges that used to invite us. Though I was more successful in Antakshri (because of my knowledge of Tamil movie songs and ability to remember the lyrics), I always considered myself to be a singer.

Since 2001, I became an active listener of Hindi songs and have even tried a few of them.

I am not sure I have a natural voice, when I sing Tamil songs, my voice tends to reflect the style of the original singer’s (obviously not with any kind of comparable quality). Whatever little I could sing, it came with a lot of hard work, spending countless of hours listening and trying to sing. However, with age and coupled with my work which requires constant talking, my voice has started showing strain. I wish I had the tools to record my voice when I was younger. I am not suggesting it was better – we would never know how it was, but it was less huskier. Huskiness came with age and with that the base voice became just air.

There is an advertisement that is shown in the TV in USA – where everyone says what they will do when they grow up (despite showing all grown up people :-). I would like to say, when I grow up, I will get trained to be a proper singer.

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Joined on February 05, 2012 and posted 777 comments, 2 replies and started 0 discussions

Musical Instruments

SHURE SM58 Microphone
Audacity 2.0 (for recording)
Sony Sound Forge 10.0 (for editing)
Sony Acid Mix 8.0 (for mixing)
Internet (for lyrics and searching for karaoke tracks)

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