George, I was born in Kolkata, raised in Kolkata, and during my schooling, I had music as a subject. I continued to have music as a subject in my graduation. And then I did my masters in music. And as it happens, I met a composer in Kolkata while I was visiting a certain recording studio just to understand the dynamics of recording. And he happened to ask me whether I would like to assist him. And the one thing that I think, at the very outset, I would like to mention is that most of the stuff that I do in my life, or I have done is really something that I simply flow with the tide, I simply flow with the times and the way things happen. Whatever happens, I kind of don't really question it. And I kind of accept it with dignity and with integrity and go about it. And so I simply said yes to him. And that's really how my journey in the music business started. I worked with him for a couple of years in Kolkata, and very happy to say I produced my first Bengali album. So my first foray into professional music was with a Bengali album in Kolkata, an original album that was released with HMV and this is way back in the 90s quite obvious I was I am a Punjabi as you know, but I was singing Bengali songs. And I would have so many people asking me that, you know, you should really go and try and and try and sing in Hindi. But I was so happy just being in Bengal, I had done my masters in Bengali music and singing in Bengali. But it so happened that Sony Music started it's you know, Sony Music international started its business, or were about to start their business in India and were scouting for talent. And I happen to know about it and I auditioned for them. And to cut the story short, I did a couple of auditions I really had to do about four or five auditions for them and I was finally chosen by them to be their debut artists in the country and that's how I shifted to Bombay. The reason I'm telling you all this is because when you talk about playback singing you're talking about Bombay and the shift to Bombay happened due to the fact that I was signed on by Sony Music, I released my debut album in 2000 and as it happens once you're in Bombay, you are trying to experiment, you're trying to also meet music directors because finally you want to get that song in the film industry, this entertainment industry is very Bollywood oriented. And I did finally get a song which was a hit. I must tell you George, I know you love music, I know you love singing, so you know when I first sang for this film called Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon and the song was very popular, but I won't tell anybody that I had sung a song. I said no, let me first see my name on the screen because you know anything could happen, anything can happen you know. The song might not be liked finally, somebody else might dub over it. All these things continue to happen. So when I finally saw my name on the screen, I said all right, I have sung the song and I started telling everybody that you know, the song Tumse Mili Nazar, which is you know, which continues to be a very popular song, has been sung by me. It was a duet with Sonu Nigam. And that's how the journey really started. And after that, I sang for about about 12 films, in Bombay. In Kolkata, of course, I was singing in Bengali films and Bangladeshi films. I also did a very interesting Tamil song I must say when I went and in Chennai, while I was singing a Bollywood songs way back in 2000.