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Sonu Nigam records over Skype - Tele-music?

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BANGALORE, INDIA: We have been hearing about many mind blowing possibilities that technology advancement brought about to connect the world like never before - including teleconferencing, tele-presence, tele-medicine etc.

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Now add to it tele-music! It is not a joke.

India's singing sensation Sonu Nigam has recorded songs for Indian industry over Skype while sitting in the U.S.!

Recently Nigam was in the U.S. on a work related trip. When the stay got extended, he started making use of Internet. Let us hear it from Nigam's mouth: “I work over the Internet. I did at least forty five songs over there during this period. The tracks were sent to me, I would book a studio and then, with me and my mixers on laptops, I would record the songs over Skype. I recorded Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and English songs.” He said this during an interview with Indiatimes recently.

It is not a novel invention, though. Two years back, U.S.-based Joseph Pisano, a music professor, and Travis Weller, a composer, had brought remote music experts to the class rooms they were teaching, using Skype. So from that time itself, it was evident that nuances of voice modulations in music teachings could meticulously be captured and conveyed over Skype.

Skype was acquired by eBay in September 2005 for $2.6 billion. eBay had written Skype down to $2 billion on its books and announced a public stock offering for 2010 to spin Skype off as a separate company. Though the proposed sale came under threat because of a software licensing dispute with the original creators, on September 1, 2009, a group of investors led by Silver Lake bought 65 per cent of Skype for $1.91 billion.

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