People also started to know about me overseas. “In the ’80s and ’90s, I was already popular among Fijians on the national level. People then started to call me to sing bhajan in their programs.”Ĭhandra said his popularity started to shine in the 1980s through singing bhajan. From early 1980s, I started to sing bhajan in public programs. “That’s when I switched from qawali to bhajan. When I returned to Bua, he used to write bhajan and send it to me through post.
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“During my stay with him, he taught me how to sing bhajan. Nand then was Fiji’s renowned bhajan singer. “He attended my qawali show in Suva in the late 1970s and said to me that my voice was suitable for bhajan. Through this, I gained popularity and people started calling me to sing in various programs.”Ĭhandra said his cousin, Nitya Nand, from Visama, Nausori encouraged him to switch from singing qawali to bhajan. “That wasn’t all, I met lots of qawali artists on stage and programs on Vanua Levu. He then inspired me to go to Suva in the 1970s to do a qawali stage show and I sang with a renowned artist, Prem Singh. “He kept encouraging me and taught me how to play the harmonium. When he was singing, I always helped him in playing instruments. He was a shopkeeper in Bua and I used to spend most of my time with him. He was the one who encouraged me to sing and he taught me how to sing qawali.” Chandra said he started singing when he was in his early 20s. “That time, Mohammad Kasim was known as qawali master in Bua.
“I started my singing career in the 1970s.
Known as “Bada Vimal” and “Babasiga King of Bhajan”, Chandra is formerly from Savusavu but now lives at Khalsa Rd in Nasinu. He has released two albums with Procera Music Fiji. Chandra is well known in Fiji and abroad for singing bhajan. Preserving and promoting traditional Indian music is the reason why Vimal Chandra has continued to sing.
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