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Music has been a hobby for some and a passion for others. I just listen to music. I haven’t learned how to sing. But I still feel that my life would be bland and empty without music. There is a song for every mood, every high and every low. Sensitive people are more dependent on music. The movie ‘Sound of Music’ highlights the importance of music in one’s life. I loved the songs in that movie as a child and can listen to them even now. For me, music makes my world go round. There was a period in my late thirties when I had completely stopped listening to music. And those years were terrible. I listen to a lot of pop. My teenage music idol was Madonna. An all –time favourite band has been ABBA. These days I like Camilla Cabello, Billie Eilish and others. I used to listen to a lot of Demi Lovato, Imagine Dragons, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus in 2014 or so. In 2006, I listened to Missy Elliot, The Pussycat Dolls, Nelly Furtado, Evanescence and others. In the late 90s, I listene...

Everyone’s a closet singer these days, and with apps like Smule and Starmaker, they are all coming out of the closet! I came across the Smule app around four years ago when one of my Facebook friends posted a video of it. I shared it with my uncle, who fell in love with the app and has made a gazillion videos on it. He has sung numerous Hindi and English numbers on Smule and shared them with family, friends and colleagues. Recently, he started a YouTube channel featuring his songs. You can check it out here .   He has lately taken to using vidtrim and uploading cool videos to go with the songs. I’ve been to a karaoke bar only once as far as can remember. It was to ‘Connie’s’ in Bangalore with my friends. I sang (or brayed) ‘La Isla Bonita’ and one other Madonna number( I think it was ‘True Blue’). It was quite an exhilarating experience. I had to summon my courage to go sing in public since singing is not my forte, and the people who frequent karaoke bars sing like...