{"id":6397,"date":"2022-11-22T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalmusicinstitute.in\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2022-11-22T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:27:05","slug":"alum-in-focus-swati-bhatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalmusicinstitute.in\/v1\/alum-in-focus-swati-bhatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum In Focus: Swati Bhatt"},"content":{"rendered":"

GMI alum are performers, producers, educators, entrepreneurs, and creatives who thrive on and off stage throughout the world. The Alum in Focus series brings their stories to you.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stories and experiences to share through her music, meet our alum, <\/span>Swati Bhatt<\/span><\/a>, a singer-songwriter and an artist currently residing in New Delhi. Swati\u2019s journey of musical discovery and growth started to take shape well into her early youth. \u201cMusic came from a very personal place in my life. There was a lot of negativity I was surrounded by, both external and internal. I wanted an escape, not that I wanted to leave everything but I wanted a way for me to pour everything out. Music is what helped me in expressing all of these emotions in order to understand myself.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She started her musical journey by pursuing Hindustani Music. \u201cI started listening to and then picked up Hindustani classical music. It was a big part of my life including a bachelor’s in Hindustani classical from Khairagarh University, Raipur.. After a point, I wanted to get the most out of my education and explore more of my sound, which is when I started learning guitar and deviating towards western music.\u201d Growing up in Raipur, she felt quite limited in terms of her understanding of western music. \u201cMy influences were quite minimal and towards the pop category. Gradually I got introduced to Pink Floyd and that made quite the impact on me because of the depth that existed in their music and production . When I came to Delhi, a whole new world opened up and I explored more artists and different genres.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Swati talks of how she wanted to expand her musical understanding, which is when she decided to explore the music scene in Delhi and also enroll at Music Institutes. \u201c I wanted to immerse myself in the Delhi music scene so I was a part of <\/span>Music Basti<\/span><\/a> where educators who themselves were artists would go to teach music to underprivileged children at NGOs and low-income government schools. It was a community where I met a lot of artists who were pursuing music as a career. After finishing my Diploma in Music Performance from SAM, I joined GMI\u00a0 to study under Luiza Sales and <\/span>Pedro Carneiro Silva<\/span><\/a>. Who were the teaching faculty during my time there and both were people I looked up to as they really helped me shape my technique.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n