Zeshan B: Chicago-Born Opera-Trained Indian Muslim Soul Singer

Update: 2019-07-16

Description

Chicago’s own Zeshan B’s fearlessness as an individual translates into music that knows no boundaries and takes from a wider range of influences than we may be used to hearing in one musician’s discography. In 2017 he released Vetted, his debut album, to critical acclaim. He made his national TV debut that same year on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Since then he’s been touring and preparing for his next release. We talk about his experience in music education, his current project, and how we all share an inherent hunger for groovy music.

Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

0:20 Zeshan Bagewadi
1:48 Bill Withers – Lean on Me
1:50 M.C. Hammer – Can’t Touch This
3:50 Lithuanian Opera
5:35 Raj Kapoor
6:45 Luciano Pavarotti
10:35 Gospel Choir
10:53 Gregorian chants
11:17 Chicago Lyric Opera
13:33 Don Giovanni: a Mozart Opera
13:45 Giuseppe Verdi
13:45 Beethoven
18:20 Soul music
18:48 Sam Cooke
18:50 Ray Charles
18:54 Chicago Blues
18:54 Muddy Waters
19:00 Curtis Mayfield
19:01 Mahalia Jackson
19:34 Bill Withers
19:34 Marvin Gaye
20:54 Medhi Hassan
20:55 Kishore Kumar
20:56 Mohammed Rafi
20:58 Shafqat Amanat Ali
21:05 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
21:07 Qawwali
21:15 Bollywood Music
21:45 Qawwali
21:48 Ghazal
22:05 Jagjit Singh
22:27 Medhi Hassan
22:32 Ghulam Ali
24:35 Ghazal
24:35 Indian Classical Music
24:55 Lady Gaga
24:55 Bruno Mars
25:30 Folk geet (Indian folk music)
25:38 Qawwali
25:38 Ghazal
27:15 Drum kit
27:19 Farfisa Organ
27:35 Harlem Renaissance
27:36 Langston Hughes
27:38 Zora Neale Hurston
27:44 Amiri Baraka
27:47 Assata Shakur
28:45 Elvis Presley
28:50 Tom and Jerry Theme song
37:00 Harmonium
40:23 Sitar
40:40 Indian Classical Music
43:22 Meri Jaan
43:27 Little Walter – My Babe
43:41 Muddy Waters
43:42 J.B. Hutto
43:43 Bo Diddley
44:33 Howlin Wolf
44:38 Donny Hathaway
44:40 Curtis Mayfield
44:41 Mahalia Jackson
45:05 Get Higher
45:06 Brown Power
49:37 Kurt Weill – Street Scene
49:58 Gian Carlo Menotti – The Consul
50:18 Dmitri Shostakovich
50:20 Leningrad Symphony
50:40 Richard Strauss – The Alpine Symphony
51:00 Beethoven Symphony No.9
51:07 John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
53:05 <a href= "https://www