New Indian songs are more influenced from the western style of music and more often than not, they are a good blend of Indian as well as western music. These types of songs are categorized as ‘indi-pop’ songs and they sure belong to a specific genre. One can notice that the latest Hindi Bollywood songs are composed from a multiple tradition of classical, folk, and pop music culture. There many castes, languages and dialects in India which also have a direct bearing on its music. The infiltration of foreign influences like Persia, Turkia, Britain and Arabia has served to mould Indian music over several centuries. For most Indians, music is fundamental to the lives.
Indian songs are popular all over the world. The different manifestation of Indian songs such as qawalli, dadra, kirtan, ghazal, thumri, shabd, bhajan and gurbani are relished by music lovers all over the planet. Indian filmy songs cover a big platform in the form of popular pop music in the western world. New Indian songs are sometimes remixes of old popular Hindi songs. Individual pop artists have also taken to making individual albums, which are a hit all over.
Lata and Asha Mangeshkar were the star singers of Indian Hindi songs in the past decades. Many new singers like Alisha Chinai, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan, Kunal Ganjawala and Sonu Nigam have emerged on the music scene in India. In the era before Lata and Asha artists like Manna Dey and Ghalib sang lovely Hindi songs. Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Mukesh were also the well known contemporaries of the Mangeshkar sisters.
