The Karaoke experience……

Well well well! This is the 75th post of my blog. As always on special milestones, I would write today on something which I have done for the first time in my life – a Karaoke Concert, here in GE campus. For beginners, Karaoke is an event where the original track of a song is played in a music system on stage, and the singer has to fill in the song itself into the track. The lyrics of the song are displayed on a big screen as it is being sung.

For the past two weeks or so, as part of our decennial celebrations here, we have been organizing various events in our campus. The Karaoke Concert was also one of the many events that are taking place. Till today morning I did not even know when the concert was supposed to be held. Suddenly at 10.45 am an email arrived saying that people who are still interested in taking part in the competition may get themselves registered latest by 4 pm. The registered candidates would be subjected to auditions and the final round of singing would start at 6 pm. They had also sent a list of about 250 songs, whose tracks were available and among which we had to choose one.

I went for registration at 3.55 pm and I was the last entry. I was confident about passing through the auditions, and I did so. They selected 16 people for the final round of performance. I had the privilege of choosing a solo number for myself, as some people were also selected for a group song. I preferred a solo number from the movie Gangster.

As I walked on stage at my turn, I was waiting for a totally new experience. I have never sung a song with an original soundtrack before, but always wanted to do so. So this was very special indeed. The lyrics kept floating up, but I hardly required them while singing. Luckily for me, I managed to integrate the lines well in between the interludes and the preludes. The song went well.

We were having the event in our open-air Amphitheatre, and it was unfortunate at the end that rain played spoilsport. We had to abandon the concert before finishing all participants and the results could also not be declared hence. That would have been an ideal culmination of such a wonderful and eventful day. However, it was an experience worth cherishing.