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\u201cZindagi\u201d (fyi, pronounced zin-duh-gee) means life. And it starts like this: \u201cWalk with the dreams that lie in your heart\/ Don't look back, keep moving forward.\/ Your ambitions are a melody. \/ Become its voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
We live in such dark times that Aki Kumar, whose lyrics usually lean toward the edgy and challenging, decided the world needed something closer to a kiss. But then, he\u2019s used to upsetting expectations. Born in Mumbai, he came to the U.S. to be a software engineer, until he encountered the music of the blues. Goodbye coding, and hello, blues harmonica. Kumar fuses culture together by mixing the blues and bollywood. \u201cZindagi,\u201d as you\u2019ll discover, is basically a reggae tune sung in Hindi, appropriately presented on a beach in Northern California as shot by the outstanding videographer Jeremiah Hutchens, who also did Aki\u2019s singles for Sony India. But there\u2019s no gimmick in the song. As Downbeat opined, \u201cthe integrity of his music marks the difference between novelty and substance.\u201d \u201cZindagi\u201d comes from Little Village Foundation, a non-profit record company dedicated to shining a spotlight on music that you might not otherwise hear about\u2014and you should definitely hear Aki. He remarked that \u201cZindagi\u201d is basically \u201cpandemic-induced creativity.\u201d We can all use some of that.<\/div>\n<\/div>
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