Composer Vasant Desai was her guru’s friend and he came to listen to this “south Indian girl with a beautiful voice”. In a day, I gave 18 hours to music,” she once said. Recognising her musical talent, her husband took her to his guru, Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan. She was a good student of music, an ardent listener of All India Radio, a huge fan of ‘Binaca Geetmala’, and a bank employee, who sought a transfer from Hyderabad to Bombay to join her husband after marriage. Unlike most South Indian playback singers, Vani’s career didn’t begin in the South. According to me, the only other south Indian playback singer who could sing, analyse, interpret like this - with equal clarity and joy - was S.P. You can see the veteran music director stop playing the harmonium and listen to her with rapt attention. Like a musicologist, she demonstrated the movement of swaras, shifts in raga perspective, and other nuances in his music. Viswanathan to discuss his music, MSV was surprised that she remembered his songs more than he could.Īt the same event, an articulate Vani explained MSV’s creative process in a manner only few singers can.
During a programme in Malaysia, where she shared the stage with the legendary composer M.S. During interviews, she never falters with names of movies, producers, composers, dates or times. An avid reader, she has a remarkable memory.
She has the rare honour of singing in over 18 Indian languages, and speaks all four Southern languages well. It is also her grace and fine manners that shine through her persona. There is something very pleasing about Vani Jairam, and it is not her music alone.
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