Coronavirus is still on the loose and wreaking havoc on public lives and economies, upending the very nature of life. Consequently, most of the people, artistes as well, have been railroaded into accepting a life of confinement amid the ongoing lockdown intended to flatten the curve. With the outdoor shows and shoots canceled, singer Nazmun Munira Nancy is also stuck at home like many others from the music industry.
As Nancy is not humming now, she found it quite convenient to have a cozy chat with The Business Post and talk about music, life in lockdown, and shed light on various other things related to this new-normal style of living.
At the very outset, she expressed her pent-up dissatisfaction over the doldrums. “I have got eight songs in the offing, for which music videos were scheduled to be shot, starring me in most of them. As far as the songs are concerned, everything was completed except the shoots. Now, it isn’t possible to step out amid the lockdown. The release of two other songs which were composed for dramas has also been halted,” she said.
The singer is feeling a bit on edge over the uncertainty that when the country would heal from the wounds caused by the virus as the pandemic is showing no sign of abating with the rate of daily cases and deaths inching up every day and presaging a gloomy prognosis for the future generation.
“For me, there is no problem with being stuck at home as I’m a homebody. But the problem is production companies are getting affected by a prolonged period of stagnation, putting the fate of new ventures in jeopardy,” she shared about the fallout of pandemic on the music industry, adding that the virus may take away another year from our lives.
In early July, Nancy’s daughter Marzia Bushra Rodela released her second single ‘Badhahin Moner Golpo’, which was featured by Habib Wahid. Asked about audiences’ reactions, Nancy said, “Many of us usually expected that Nancy’s daughter will adopt the singing style of her mother. I don’t think so. She will follow her own style of singing. As a mother, I can say that she is gradually doing better.”
Nancy added that she expects Rodela to focus on her main career and music career simultaneously as a long-term goal. “I have always wanted to introduce her to the audience through Bangla songs. I want her to reach the audience by lending her voice to Bangla songs owing to the fact that the way a Bangla song touches our soul cannot be replicated by singing song in any other language.”
When asked to differentiate between playback singing and audio songs, Nancy preferred playback singing. “I stepped into the music industry through playback. It’s a matter of big canvas. I love to see my songs being performed by the actresses on the big-screen,” she opined.
Regarding her recent playlist, Nancy said that she had been listening to the songs of Warfaze along with Minar Rahman’s ‘Keu Kotha Rakheni’, which she was playing repeatedly over the last few days and also Habib Wahid’s 2017 track ‘Tumihina’.
Nazmun Munira Nancy, who is now officially single after parting ways with Nazimuzzaman Jayed earlier this year ending up nearly eight years of their marriage, said that she is now on a new journey of herself.
On living the life of a vocalist, she added, “It seems that I couldn’t have been something else but a singer. I am so impassioned that it would have been inconvenient for me if I were something else other than being a singer.”
While flipping the side, Nancy expressed that lockdown has been an excellent opportunity to look back at life through a different lens and rediscover oneself. “Generally speaking, life is all about waiting, but time flies fast as well,” she said.
