{"id":3033,"date":"2003-04-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/27\/2003-04-27-shashika-s-songs-from-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2003-04-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-27T12:00:00","slug":"2003-04-27-shashika-s-songs-from-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/27\/2003-04-27-shashika-s-songs-from-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Shashika&#8217;s Songs From The Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.co.za\/2003\/04\/06\/arts\/durban\/aned02.asp\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, April 6, 2003: Former South African singer Shashika Mooruth is back in the country to release two new CDs. Mooruth, who has toured the world performing devotional music, will release &#8220;Vraja &#8212; Sounds Beyond Time&#8221; and &#8220;Swagatam Krishna&#8221; at the Festival of Chariots, which ran from April 18 to 21. &#8220;It is different from the kind of music I usually do because it is more techno, as opposed to the sweet devotional songs I am used to. This CD is aimed at the youth. I want to try to bring them back to their roots with music they are familiar with,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The lyrics, which are of religious significance, are in Bengali and Sanskrit. We have performed some of the songs at discos in India and have received an overwhelming response.&#8221; Mooruth says she uses her music more as a preaching tool. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like stage performances apart from devotional. Every Saturday I sing at a two-hour program at a Krishna temple in Juhu, Mumbai. I feel that this talent has been given to me by Lord Krishna and, therefore, whatever I do, I do as an offering to Him.&#8221; A strict vegetarian, she begins her day at 4 a.m. with chanting and prayer.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceDURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, April 6, 2003: Former South African singer Shashika Mooruth is back in the country to release two,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}