It’s a distinctive instrumental music album binding the West and the East called ‘Miami to Mumbai’. Bringing them together is Shakira’s percussionist and music publisher Archie Pena along with noted Indian music designer Dhrubajit Gogoi.
“Archie is coming here next month and we shall start recording the music. We will have these singers giving a few vocal strains in the albums to enrich the music,” says Gogoi, who has designed music earlier for films like ‘Rakht’, ‘Page 3’, ‘Umar’, ‘Corporate’ and ‘Traffic Signal’ among others.
Latin percussionist guru Archie has earlier worked with Shakira on ...
Oral Fixation’ and Jennifer Lopez in her album ‘On the Six’, apart from working with jazz legends like George Benson and Paqito D Rivera and Latin pop diva Gloria Estefan among others.
“We have two top stars from the West who are very keen to feature in the album as well as the video that we plan to shoot. Dhrubajit and I are composing many numbers out of which we will select the best ones and cut the album from it. No one dares to do instrumental these days and this is the first time that an Indian playing the guitar is collaborating with a percussionist from the West. Usually it is the other way around,” says Archie.
Gogoi and Pena are now speaking to various directors from Hollywood as well as top Indian directors to direct the video. The bigger scoop, however, is that Shakira may just sing for Bollywood. Archie is currently in talks with a few Bollywood producers regarding the same. “I cannot reveal names now as we are in the final stages of discussion,” says Archie.
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