Sometime around 2017, when he was in college in his hometown Thanjavur, Kaber Vasuki uploaded his first song on YouTube from a browsing centre.
“The video just had a blank screen with the title of the song,” recalls the 33-year-old singer-songwriter, who is now based in Canada. Kaber, eager to share his music with the world, waited to see the views trickling in. “There was 10, 20, and it went up gradually,” he says, recalling the first comment from a Tamilian from Australia. “He said ‘super-a irukku’.”
Kaber’s latest independent single ‘Poi’ has garnered over 64,000 views and counting, since its launch a month ago.
