I want to become a successful playback singer and want to be in music for my entire life.

He is amazing on stage and I feel really blessed to be a part of his team. So performing with him and his team is like a dream come true. He has been my inspiration since childhood. He has always encouraged me and rectified my mistakes. I performed with him for the first time on Decemat Adlabs Imagica, Mumbai and have been performing with the team ever since. Shankar sir heard me sing and as promised gave me a place in the Shankar Mahadevan team. The show wasn’t telecasted in India and was telecasted just in UAE and Pakistan. I was also a part of the reality show Asias singing superstar? after The Voice of India. You have been performing regularly with singing sensation Shankar Mahadevan and his team. They took autographs and wanted to take selfies with me when I met them. But people whom I never knew showered me with lot of love. People who were always close to me, like my friends didn’t change a bit. Did people’s attitude in Nagpur towards you changed after your new found success You participated in the singing reality show The Voice India? (on &TV) and that gave you a lot of popularity. I sing both classical and light music, but I am more into light-classical. I want to be a playback singer and for that I should know every genre very well. When I was a kid, my mother would play old songs on audio cassettes and that left a long lasting impression on me. She never learnt music but she has always loved listening to music. I joined music classes thereafter and started learning classical and light music. After performing and singing in a few functions at school, I realised that I could sing decently. When I was in 3 rd grade, I started learning keyboard. I used to bunk the classes and would sing or play the harmonium in the music room. When I was in school, music fascinated me more than studies. There is absolutely no one in my family who is into music though my maternal grandmother is a gold medalist in music. How did you get into music and who inspired you? In an interview with Nation Next, Shrinidhi Ghatate speaks about her musical journey, her association with the singing sensation Shankar Mahadevan and her future plans. Shes a performer now and apart from pursuing her dreams, she is also currently studying Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) at Mithibai College of Science, Arts and Commerce, Mumbai. Then everything changed she participated in the singing reality show The Voice India? in 2015 which gave this Nagpur girl quite a lot of popularity. Shrinidhi Ghatate was just another talented girl with big dreams till two years back. Shrinidhi Ghatate (Picture source: Shrinidhi’s Facebook account)

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