I was not learning from a guru, just listening to different kinds of music but my voice was not working. “I was singing constantly in falsetto or in a hoarse voice, copying how other artistes sounded. After that meeting, Nandy tried every unhealthy way to make her voice sound “sweeter”. He told me, ‘I hope you are good at academics, because you may not make it as a musician,” says Nandy, who idolises Ghoshal. “He said that my voice was not sweet enough and didn’t come close to Shreya Ghoshal’s. It was during one of these recordings that a Bengali composer told her not to pursue a career in music. At 12, Nandy was singing the title songs of Bengali reality shows. “Guruji was unhappy that I was going to use my training to sing in reality shows, but I reached the finals,” says Nandy. She studied under him for about five years before enrolling in the children’s reality show – Saregamapa L’il Champs. At four, Nandy found herself under the tutelage of Ustad Rashid Khan, training for a classical career. The Nandys took the decision to shift base to Kolkata two years later. Once, her aunt spotted a two-and-a-half-year-old Nandy carry a tune well and told her mother to enroll her in training. Also Read | Ponniyin Selvan 1 review: Mani Ratnam’s largely faithful and brilliant adaptation has no dull moments Antara Nandy with Mani Ratnamīorn to engineer parents in Assam’s Shivpur, Nandy’s access to music was limited to what she heard on the radio and television.
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