TIL Desk Bollywood/ Legendary Indian singer Asha Bhosle performed recently at the Filene Centre at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC. Ahead of the concert — which was billed as ‘The Farewell Tour’ — Bhosle, who will turn 83 on September 8, was her joyous self even as she revealed to her plans to say sayonara to singing.
For the last 10 years, I haven’t come to DC, since I performed at The Kennedy Center. But, yes, this is definitely my farewell tour and not only overseas — it’s going to be everywhere. I can’t come here again because now I am 83 . So, yes, it is my last tour here and everywhere. I have been singing for the last 72 years, so Indian people all over the world know me from their childhood. Even though they are here, they don’t forget Indian music and my songs. I am with them always because in some ways, we grew up together.
When I come here, they want to see me, I want to see them because they have been here for so many years, and for them, it brings back a lot of memories. It is nostalgia for them, about when they were young, when they fell in love and then for some, love and lost . So they can remember all those things in their life. They can also remember India and they feel like they have been transported back to India.
I don’t know. Maybe because I am singing every style of Indian songs and language and mixing it up with the Western style also, and changing the voice and all that to suit the various styles. I have sung in all languages and so every people know me — Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu. I think American people also like to listen and dance to Indian music, especially Bollywood music. So they want to see that and hear the songs and that’s why I think they also like my songs.
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