Many people in the music business hope they’ll hear their name someday after “And the Grammy goes to….”
Now a Cary couple is a two-time Grammy winner after the band Shakti won Best Global Music this year for its album “This Moment.”
“Because my wife and I are the producers of this album,” said Souvik Dutta. “And so we orchestrated the whole album and the world tour for them this year. So it just feels a little bit special as producers.”
The album’s on
, based in Cary.
“The record label has existed for about 18 years. We’ve been making albums and producing albums with artists from all over the world. In 2017, one of our artists called John McLaughlin, a guitar player that has association all the way to Miles Davis. Won a Grammy for Best Jazz, improvised solo,” he said.
That business relationship has roots in his childhood when he was a fan.
“My dad took me to see him when I was 10 in India, and after I moved to North Carolina in ’91 to go to university here and finally, you know, I have a job in RTP.,” he said. “I just didn’t want to give up on my hobby. So kind of kept doing that. And I just wrote an email to his manager at the time in Paris and had a response back, and that’s kind of how I sort of started this hobby of getting into selling records and with his and Jimmy Herring, a very dear friend of mine, our artist from North Carolina, from Fayetteville, a guitar player for Widespread Panic.”