Chennai: With the world under lockdown battling the Covid pandemic, music as an art form has brought solace to millions of people across the globe.
Be it any genre – jazz, rock, pop, classical, folk or country, music has helped people and communities come together and worked as a soothing balm on the weariness resulting from a prolonged lockdown and helped people deal with these difficult times in a positive way. Unfortunately, the music community while trying to spread cheer everywhere has also not been left unimpacted.
The Indian Performing Right Society Ltd (IPRS) had in April announced a financial package to help thousands of authors and composers address their essential needs during theinitial stages of the lockdown. IPRS has now announced the release of an additional tranche of emergency relief fund for its members.
The fund will support around 3500 authors and composers in the music fraternity, across the country, whose livelihoods have been deeply impacted by Covid-19.
Javed Akhtar, chairman of IPRS said, “IPRS was established with the objective of helping the creative music fraternity grow and flourish and this holds true now more than ever when our community is in dire need because of these unprecedented times. Our initial financial assistance package in April 2020 brought much needed relief to the community and we hope the additional money that is being released now will help again to provide necessary respite at this moment.”