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Pot on, VV
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World music is a terrible term
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FIRST TRANSGENDER MUSIC ALBUM
Transgender on song
'Songs of the Caravan' is a unique album in which India's third gender musicians pour out their love, longing and pain.
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Unabashedly raw
The new female playback voice is vastly different from the high pitch of the earlier decades - today, it is unapologetically low, bold and husky.
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