Dev Negi on collaborating with DJ Marshmello: I really feel so fortunate that I set to work with him and Pritam da – Instances of India

Dev Negi is thought for chartbusters like ‘Chalti Hai Kya 9 Se 12’ from ‘Judwaa 2′, ‘Sweety Tera Drama’ from ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’, ‘Butterfly‘ from ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal‘, ‘Sweetheart‘ from ‘Kedarnath‘ amongst others. The versatile singer has additionally recorded songs for Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali movies. Do you know he collaborated with DJ Marshmellow? Sure, you heard that proper. In an unique interplay with ETimes, Dev opened up about his first-ever collaboration with Marshmallow, his message for budding singers and far more. Excerpts:

You’ve gotten collaborated with DJ Marshmello and Pritam Chakraborty. How was the expertise?

‘Biba‘ is my first ever worldwide collaboration and I really feel so fortunate that I set to work with DJ Marshmello and Pritam da on this tune. It was an awesome expertise working with them! When DJ Marshmello had come to India for the discharge of the tune, we had had numerous good occasions collectively.

If given an opportunity to collaborate with a global artiste, whom would you select and why?

If I ever have the possibility to decide on, then I’d like to collaborate with John Mayer as a result of I’ve at all times cherished his lyrics and means of composition rather a lot.

Any message that you simply like to offer to budding singers?

I want to inform them to maintain updating themselves with the occasions, and discover completely different sorts of music. Particularly in the event that they need to work in Bollywood, they need to be capable to work in all genres.

2020 was a tricky 12 months and taught all of us a lot. What was your largest takeaway from these exhausting occasions?

After all, the 12 months 2020 was a very robust time for everybody, however I attempted to utilise the time in enhancing myself in all features as a human, singer, musician, and prepare dinner. And I attempted to be as productive as doable.