Singer Neha Bhasin, who recently celebrated her 40th birthday, says age has made her “seasoned and more confident about who I am”. On her recent Chandigarh trip, Neha candidly spoke about staying the course despite being criticized for her bold personal style ala western popstars.
“My career has been more than just playback singing, and everything I do is very audio visual,” she says, adding, “I grew up on western music, so my perception was based on what I consumed as a child, on the divas of the 90s- Madonna, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and 90s was a time when music was becoming more visual. So, I felt alienated and judged being this way. People commented, ‘talented toh hai but I don’t like her as a person,’ or, ‘this is not how a singer should behave,’ and ‘she is an attention seeker.’ Because of this criticism, my persona did get diluted during the growing years. But I stayed consistent and didn’t change. So now they know, whatever they say, I am not going away in who I am.”
