Singer Suzanne D’Mello To Release Her Debut Album

Singer Suzanne D’Mello, who has often worked with popular composers like A.R. Rahman, Pritam and Salim-Sulaiman in her almost three-decade-long music career, is excited about her debut album which will have an R&B soul.

D’Mello is the voice behind hit Bollywood songs like “Mahiya” (“Awarapan”), “Do you wanna partner” (“Partner”) and “Aye bacchu” (“Ghajini”).

It took her a while, but she is looking forward to soon unveiling her first album.

“This album is my baby. I am collaborating with different artistes. I look at it as an album, but I think it will have to release as singles. I am working on some tracks with Indrajit Sharma, popularly known as Tubby in the industry. He has composed a couple of tracks,” D’Mello told IANS in a telephonic interview from Mumbai.

“I have composed some. I am collaborating with new lyricists also. The soul of the album will be very R&B, but in Hindi and a couple of them in English,” added the singer, who gave the English vocals for songs like “Zara zara touch me” and “Race saason ki”.

She hopes a couple of singles release before the end of this year.

But what took her so long?

“My priorities were different. Now that I have little more time and my desires are different, I want to put more of myself out there,” she said.

D’Mello has also been a part of Broadway-style musicals like “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin” as a voice coach and vocal arranger.

Did she expect such kind of productions to be happening in India when she started off in the 1990s?

“No. I was very young when I started off. As a young artiste, I wanted to go to New York and pursue Broadway music. I never took that route but I had the fortune of having teachers based in New York coming to Mumbai. They conducted workshops here (in Mumbai). So in a way, I kind of got a taste of Broadway right here in Mumbai.”

It was only after the second “Beauty and the Beast” musical in 2016 that things started to look up.