Quiz #1 – Lets Begin!

We start with a set of 5 questions..

1.  What has been blanked out?

2. This Malayalam song is widely rumoured to have been the first contribution by X to the world of film music. So who is X?

3. What style of singing is named after this Sesame Street character?

4. What is the musical connect between the two pictures?

5. Identify this singer and his band, who is more renowned for his literary exploits.

Answer in comments..

Here are the answers:
1. Zoso, Jimmy Page’s (Led Zep) symbol.
2. A R Rahman. The story goes something like this. ARR’s dad RK Shekhar was in the process of composing music for a Malayalam movie by name Penpada at his home sitting with the lyricist Bharanikkaavu Shivakumar, and was not getting the right tune for his song. Now along comes his little son who was playing outside till that point, and plays a ditty on the harmonium. The composer and the lyricist both like the tune and decide to take it up for their song, which was then sung by P Jayachandran. The song was called Velli Then Kinnam Pol.
3. Death Growls used in Death metal also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, unclean vocals. The style is sometimes referred to as Cookie Monster vocals, tongue-in-cheek, because of the similarity with the popular Sesame Street character of the same name.  Hear Cookie Monster singing here.

4. Don’t Worry Be Happy. The visuals are of Bobby McFerrin, who released the iconic song, and of Toofan, where Anu Malik composed a song drawing inspiration from the number under the same title.
5. Amit Chaudhuri, and his band is called This is not Fusion.

Points:

Sriganesh: 1
flightless one: 3

Nirad: 2

Vasanth: 3