It will not be an exaggeration to say that it changed my very approach to music listening. I took one tape of Ghazals sung by Mehdi Hassan for Pakistani films. On the stack of cassettes I saw that name and an aged smiling face. The name Mehdi Hassan was there on our bill of goods. He introduced me to Mehdi Hassan and swore that there is no other Ghazal singer in the entire world like Mehdi Hassan. My friend and playback singer Srinivas was already a Ghazal addict. As an occasional listener of Ghazals I had heard Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh and Hariharan but Ghazals were not exactly in my list of favorites. We had the distribution rights of some music collections from Pakistan and most of them were Ghazals. Our stock rooms always had the welcome fragrance of fresh harvests. The technology of burning a thousand songs in to a CD to burn down the music industry has not arrived! CD technology itself was a budding notion. There was no free music downloading from internet. Indian film songs, devotional songs, imported music from Warner brothers, Indian classical, Indi pop, Instrumentals, Ghazals… We sold them all. In 1993, I was selling music as the Sales Manager of a frontline music label.
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