Before long, the singer acquired a fan following. But there was something hugely appealing about the melancholic songs of love, heartache and loss that had until then been the preserve of Malayalam films. Very few in that audience knew Urdu and fewer still had heard Hindustani music in a landscape dominated by the Carnatic system. Their newest protégé was singing in Urdu and the songs were set in unfamiliar Hindustani ragas with brilliant harmonium and tabla backing. So it wasn’t surprising that in late 1980s, when word got around that a singer with a new musical style was doing dinner concerts at Abad Plaza, then the fanciest hotel in downtown Kochi, quite a few listeners turned up.Ībad Plaza, owned by a Kutchi Memon family who made Kochi their home in the 19th century, had started offering a stage for struggling musicians. Seafarers, traders, travellers and conquerors have given the city as many as 30 languages.
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