Being a ‘ Mir‘, art runs in our blood and we need not to attend any particular class to learn it. My father and two brothers are artists.Q.: How come you entered this field? What really inspired you? Generally, from a Muslim singer, Kalma, Kavali is expected but people are used to prefer me singing hymns. It was a surprise for the people knowing I sing hymns being a Muslim daughter.Was there any difficulty in the initial days? You sing hymns but you belong to a community (Muslim) where generally hymns are not sung. Q.: Artists have no particular religion such as Hindu or Muslim, their only religion is ART. Note: Video quality is poor due to bad light. Speakbindas correspondent Vikas Rajpopat dwells into her personal and professional life with interesting questions. On a fine evening of Navratri (2009), when she came to Rajkot to perform at a local Dandiya-Ras show, she rendered some time to Speakbindas for an interview. She leads quite a famous life and hence controversies too are a part of her professional life. Not only she is a good singer but an actress in Gujarati films. It is quite fascinating to know how her singing journey started when she was a teen. She belongs to Mir cast which is said to be have art running in their blood. Despite being belonging to Muslim community, she sings Hindu hymns, which hurts to some orthodox people. Farida Mir is a popular name among Gujarati community for her art of singing.
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