The city’s young woman, Krameri aka Damini Chauhan, has made Vadodara renowned by receiving training from legendary music composer A.R. Rahman and contributing to the world of music from both home and abroad.
Chauhan is a well-known musician both in the United States and internationally. She has worked on a range of sound effects, including sound design, in the Netflix documentary “House of Secrets,” composed by A.R. Rahman, after receiving a degree from Rahman’s Institute of Music.
Dr. V.C. Chauhan, the city’s renowned cardiologist, and Geeta Chauhan’s daughter, who contributed to the field of journalism, has made her mark in the realm of music. The young woman enjoys Western music, as well as Indian classical music. Chauhan attended the College of Music and Technology Institute for higher studies. In Australia, the young lady also had her worldwide show; she has composed and launched more than 42 songs.
Damini Chauhan, daughter of VC Chauhan and Geeta Chauhan, who has contributed to the field of journalism, has made a name for herself in music.
Gitaben was a housewife and used to write for the Times of India, Damini is her youngest daughter. After passing Std. 12, Damini Chauhan started studying psychology in a college in Pune like other students. Instead of pursuing a career in psychology, Damini decided to pursue a career in Arts.
Since then, Damini has been fascinated by Western music, particularly Indian classical music. She arrived at the College of Music and Technology Institute, which is directed by the world-renowned Indian composer A.R. Rahman. Damini got accepted into the Bachelor of Music, a four-year degree. She studied Indian music and piano for three years. After three years of studying Indian Rago, Western Classical Singing, and Piano in Chennai, he completed his fourth and final year.
Damini has been releasing her albums and songs under the Creamery banner for the past several years. She is the only solo performer to design songs and music. Her approach to making musicians is quite intimate and personal. More things than music motivate her to make music; something like a painting, a place, a movie, a feeling, a person, a smell, especially if there is an aesthetic.
In 2017, Damini Chauhan released her first solo album, “Dreams of Unicorn.” There were four songs performed, which garnered a lot of positive feedback from her music admirers on social media. Damini released a music CD named “Hampstead”, each song on the CD is a beautiful love letter to the listener, set amid the leafy refuge of Hampstead. The songs focus on the themes of personal ambition, fragrant recollections of lost love, and haunted nightmares, and they sound like pages from a diary entry. Her album’s subject is to dream, to dream in such a way that it becomes fantasy.
Damini has contributed sound effects and sound design to the Netflix documentary ‘House of Secrets’ as part of her recent endeavor.
In addition, she is currently teaching music to children as a music teacher in a local school in Vadodara, while also working on her independent music projects.
According to Damini, many aspiring musicians from Gujarat are working in A.R. Rahman’s music academy. She adds that Gujarati’s are found everywhere. Similarly, many Gujaratis are moving ahead in the field of music now.
