“I used to do ‘riyaz’ for 14 hours a day, and now it has been cut short to two hours. Surely, it gets difficult at this age, but what is important remains important. And doing ‘riyaz’ is very important, so I continue to do it religiously,” he says.
Having won both Padma Vibhusan (2000) and Padma Bhushan (1990), the singer also congratulated singers like Anuradha Paudwal, K J Yesudas, Kailash Kher and others for making it to the list of Padma Awardees this year.
“It is always good to know that ‘music is being appreciated and honoured. Most of them are from the film industry, but belong to the singing fraternity nonetheless. I think all of them are well deserving,” he says.
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