Load Shedding & Celebs
January 20th, 2012
Can’t watch your favorite television show? Having a forced Facebook withdrawal? Can’t connect with the world? Ahhh, load shedding has crippled your life hasn’t it? Well we can all imagine what you must be feeling during the continuous rolling blackouts, but ever wonder what your favorite celebs are up to during the long dark hours? Well we’ve called them up for you, to ask them exactly how they spend their precious time during load shedding. Here’s what they have to say.
Introducing Sapana Rani’s Naataa
August 2nd, 2011
After years of hard work and dedication towards music, singer Sapana Rani has finally surfaced to the music scene with her debut effort “Naataa”.
Produced and made available to the market by Anurag Music, “Naataa”, apart from being the singer’s solo album, is also a collective effort of a number of talented personalities from the industry, some fresh and some renowned artists. In the set, you can hear songs penned by Balika Thapaliya, Kumar “Bivaahit”, Sanjay Baral, Manoj K.C. “Samaya”, Amrit Regmi and Bhupendra Khadka. On the musical side, there are three singles in Ram Sitaula’s composition, and two in Arjun Pokharel. Even veteran musician Raju Singh has provided tune to one of the tracks.
Hits FM - Vote Now!
August 2nd, 2011
Giving deserving local artistes their due respect, the annual Hits FM Music Awards celebrates music and artistic freedom!
One of the most coveted awards in music fraternity, the 15th edition is soon to commence; and the first step is the nominations. As a listener, one has the power to bring forth their favorites to forefront. And starting July 31, the nomination forms are officially out.
“Only the songs that have been registered here at Hits FM from April 2010 to March 2011 are eligible. There are nineteen categories, with five nominees each,” shared Mandira Dhungel, Program Manager of Hits FM 91.2
Sonam coming One More Time
August 2nd, 2011
A well known VJ turned singer Sonam Pakhrin is quite busy these days. Sonam is a well known VJ who hosts a musical show at Nepal1, has unique creative perspective in the channel. He is still known as the best host of live musical program.
He is famous amongst many people as a VJ and also as a singer these days. He is coming with is second album ‘One More Time’ pretty soon after his first released album ‘2 years’. His album will be healthy mix of five tracks. Established singers and musicians like Ashusen Lama, Kamal Khatri, Mohit Munal has composed the songs for his new album.
Only love, dissected
July 24th, 2011
Industrialist and famed lyricist Basanta Chaudhary’s fourth album “Only Love”, which took two years to complete, includes 11 songs all composed by Chaudhary himself and music by Nhyoo Bajracharya.
Released three months ago the album is doing well in the charts/ airwaves.
“I put my thoughts into simple words and then go about writing the songs. And it is a tough job for any artist to self assess their own work, hence a discussion as such is very important for the personal growth,” said industrialist Basant Chaudhary; and this was the very reason why a discussion programme was conducted at Nepal Tourism Board premises on July 19.
Avinash Ghising with Son Of Himalaya
July 24th, 2011
Avinash Ghising is ready to burst into music scene after a hiatus of five years. The “Himali Chhora”, that’s what he prefers to be called, is putting final touches to his seventh album that’ll boast Selo, religious, sentimental and oodles of pop music.
The new album is entitled “Son Of Himalaya”, for obivious reason, and yes, there’s a story behind the name. “It’s shocking, many people don’t know that Nepal exists. They usually mistake it for Naples in Italy. It’s only after the mention of Mt. Everest that brings a glint of recognition. So I thought: why not make it my title?” exclaimed Ghising.
Passion Branching Out
July 24th, 2011
After the release of his album “Mirrors”, it may seem like Shreshan Shrestha aka s2s has disappeared from the music scene. Recordings wise, yes, but not entirely. He is contributing to the industry, however, from behind the scene.
Apart from being a fervent music artist, it has recently become evident that s2s also has a passion for web designing. You can see his work in websites of a handful of artists such as Aastha B and Visan Yonjan among others. And as if these two interests were not enough to keep him busy, the singer has now ventured out for another profession by trying his hands on music video direction! Talk about being jack of all and master of all.
