For the love of music

Seven cousins come together with like-minded friends to play music and recreate nostalgia

This Saturday, a bunch of cousins(all muscisians) with some like-minded musician friends are coming together to recreate some old hits. The bunch, which comprises of well settled professionals now following their passion, will be entertaining crowds with an event called Zansam Nostalgia Night, to be held at Guru Nanak Bhavan. WH@T’S ON finds out all about their musical adventures.

Zansam was born from a family of musicians. At the core of Zansam are seven cousins-seven singers.

In The Family

Born in a family of music lovers, the seven Zanzi cousins developed a passion for hindi film music at an early age. They grew up listening to the greats of hindi film cinema, dreamt of becoming performers themselves one day. With age came commitment, and with a settled career came ambition to make the childhood dream a reality. The seven Zanzis then went about piecing together a group, adding talented musicians with passion and ambition and that was the genesis of the ZANsi SAngeet Mandali (ZANSAM) of today.

“our parents, uncles and aunts had a youth orchestra, which later fizzled out once they pursued their different careers. All of them were trained musicians. Here, we seven cousins in Zansam are following a path quite contrary. We are all not trained singers and are well-settled professionals. But it is music that we heard from our generation before, which kept us bound together. We decided on this escapade last year at the wedding of a cousin.”, narrates Tushar Prabhu, founder member.

Apart from Tushar, the rest of the cousins in the group are also singers. The musicians share a similar passion for music. “the group has performed twice earlier, but both these appearances were commissioned performances.” , says Tushar.

The publicity for this event has been largely word-of-mouth and through the internet. They are using networking sites, where they have an established network, to generate ticket sales. “we plan to recreate nostalgia and then slowly compose our own tunes, which should be out in an album by the end of the year or early next year.” , says a confident Tushar