Actually I don't have any personal connections to India. At any time I was in a music store and I found this CD and I fell in love with the music for the very first moment. One of the songs is by Remember Shakti (Lotus Feet). The other day I saw a poster with an ad for a concert of Rember Shakti in one of our local concert halls and I was happy to get a ticket for this great event. In the west the names of Zakir Hussain, Shakti and John McLaughlin are familiar to my parents' generation who has been interested in world music since youth. My boyfriend's father is musician, too and he is a big fan of all of them! I have watched giddha, qwaali and shabad gurbaani on youtoube and I like it very much. I'm a musician myself and I play several instruments like flute, recorder, piano, saxophon and clarinet. Maybe do you sing?
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