Live On

Another facet of the “industrialization” of music in India is the sad plight of indigenous, veteran musicians and allied artists. Once revered as pinnacles of art and spiritual progress, these men and women who have truly and wholly dedicated their entire lives and beings to music, stand even without the chance of a dignified livelihood today. Though a select few who have enjoyed untold fame and fortune due to music still exist, a majority of indigenous artists are today, found to be on the very brink of poverty. They are seen pulling through life with no one for support and lack even basics such as jobs or health insurance to aid them in their autumn years.

The Living in Art Foundation hopes to offer these truly distinguished individuals, a stable and dignified life, providing them basic security in the form of health insurance in their vulnerable years. We shall endeavour to provide these veteran musicians with part-time employment as music teachers, so they can sustain a living whilst passing their hard-earned knowledge to the next generation.

We must come together to restore a modicum of peace and dignity to these yesteryear artists. It is said that a person who has lost his purpose is merely a shell of a man, only a shadow of what he truly is. These artists are people who have truly given their body, mind and soul to music, serving of humanity. Yet in our current social model, they have been denied the one thing they were born to do: live the art.

After dedicating their lives to spreading the joy of music far and wide, from your favourite song to the song you played in the car today, their own lives have become void of life’s natural harmony.