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.

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 :-). Until an year ago, I was saying that, when I grow up, I would get trained to be a singer. I don’t know whether I have grown up or not, but at least I have started getting trained:-)

When I started singing again after many years and got my voice recorded first in 2011 and subsequently when I joined in Muziboo in 2012, I wasn’t sure I had a natural voice. The voice tended to reflect the style of the original singer and therefore for different songs, the voice sounded different. But after 6 months of training, I realized that I sound unique and distinct irrespective of the song I sing. I also think my own voice came to the core the more confident I became of my own ability.

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Musical Instruments

SHURE SM58 Dynamic Microphone
Behringer C1 Condenser Microphone(recent addition)
Audacity 2.0 (for recording)
Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio 10.0 (for editing and vocal effects)
Sony Acid Mix 8.0 (for mixing)
Izotope Vocal Eraser Plugin (for Vocal cuts)
Izotope Audio Enhancer Plugin (for Vocal effects)
Izotope Ozone 4 (for mastering)
Internet (for lyrics and searching for karaoke tracks)
Waves Renaissance Maxx Plugin bundle

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