Palbasha Siddique Update

The composer of the amazing Praan song that features on the latest Where the Hell is Matt Video, Garry Schyman, has given a Palbasha Siddique update on his Myspace page.

And don't forget, you can buy Garry Schyman's single Praan, at Amazon, its very good value too.

This is how Garry describes the events leading to the selection of Palbasha Siddique:

"Bengali is very beautiful so we decided to have it sung in Tagore's native language, however we had no idea who the singer would be.

I started listening to countless demo mp3's of various studio singers, who all sounded terrific but just didn't seem right for the song. Bengali is a particularly difficult language to sing if you don't know the language and we wanted someone who could really bring off the poem in Bengali.

To the rescue came Matt's girlfriend and co-producer of the video Melissa Nixon. Melissa is amazing and searched youtube for just the right voice. Astonishingly she found her in the person of Palbasha Siddique.

Palbasha had a couple of videos that included her singing on youtube. Though the videos did not do her justice, they were enough for us to contact her and learn that she was a 17 year old high school junior living in Minneapolis Minnesota (Palbasha was born in Bangladesh and moved there when she was six years old).

To be honest I was very skeptical at first as to whether she could really pull off what we wanted, but when I spoke to her she was keen on being involved and was willing to record a demo for us. I sent her a rough mix of the song and she recorded over it and sent it back.

We were all just completely amazed at how perfect she was. She totally got what we were doing and she sounded fantastic. We immediately invited her and her mother to Los Angeles to record, which we did on June 5th of this year. She came in and was so professional and sounded so awesome that it could not have been better. "

There you go - thats how a star is born.
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