{"id":138241,"date":"2015-02-26T01:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T01:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/02\/26\/a-r-rahmans-band-debuts-performs-at-gima\/"},"modified":"2015-02-26T01:54:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T01:54:06","slug":"a-r-rahmans-band-debuts-performs-at-gima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/02\/26\/a-r-rahmans-band-debuts-performs-at-gima\/","title":{"rendered":"A.R. Rahman\u2019s band debuts, performs at GiMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Music maestro A. R. Rahman\u2019s band NAFS gave its maiden performance here at the fifth edition of Gionee Star Global Indian Music Awards (GiMA).<br \/>\nThe awards ceremony took place Tuesday in the presence of the cr\u2019me de la cr\u2019me of the music and film fraternity.<br \/>\nThe ceremony, hosted by singer Mika Singh and TV host-actor Manish Paul, featured stellar performances by celebrated musicians and Bollywood stars including Atif Aslam, Arijit Singh, Pritam, Shraddha Kapoor, Benny Dayal, Sonu Nigam, Ankit Tewari and Shankar Mahadevan among others.<br \/>\nBand NAFS, which means \u2018free will to make your own choice\u2019 in Urdu and Arabic, regaled the audience with its tunes.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has been my privilege to showcase NAFS at GiMA for the first time ever,\u201d Rahman, who also won awards for Best Film Album for \u201cHighway\u201d and Best Fusion Album in the non-film category for Coke Studio at MTV Season 3, said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cFor me, to give a platform to the next generation is my mission and this is one of the first initiatives to represent India internationally. The inspiration behind was Stevie Wonder,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nAnother highlight of the night was a performance by \u2018The S7- Super 7\u2019, an act comprising some of the most talented singers who have had hits in the past year including Armaan Malik, Shadab Faridi, Md Irfan and Hriday Gattani.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has been an absolute honour to bring together some of the world\u2019s finest musicians on a platform like GiMA. We\u2019ve had the privilege of seeing greats like Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pandit Jasraj, Usaat Zakir Hussain and A.R. Rahman on the same stage today,\u201d said Sabbas Joseph, director, Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt Ltd.<br \/>\nThe Lifetime Achievement Award \u2014 Classical went to Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, presented to him by classical legend Pandit Jasraj.<br \/>\nThe Global Musician Award was bestowed upon music legend Ustad Zakir Hussain. Daler Mehndi took home the Wizcraft Honour for Best Live Performer and a Special Award for Best Music Initiative was awarded to the Red Bull Tour Bus.<br \/>\n\u2018Queen\u2019 and \u2018Ek Villain\u2019 tied with three awards each leading the film category.<br \/>\nArmaan Malik won awards for Best Music Debut in both the Film as well as Non-Film category. Shankar Mahadevan won his first award ever for Devotional music. The 5th Gionee Star Global Indian Music Awards, powered by Hungama.com and Kelloggs Chocos, will be telecast on Star Plus on March 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music maestro A. R. Rahman\u2019s band NAFS gave its maiden performance here at the fifth edition of Gionee Star Global Indian Music Awards (GiMA). The awards ceremony took place Tuesday in the presence of the cr\u2019me de la cr\u2019me of the music and film fraternity. The ceremony, hosted by singer Mika Singh and TV host-actor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}