Reality show winners to start music school

Mumbai, October 05, 2010

Shillong Chamber Choir, which won India’s Got Talent, will start
a music school with their Rs 50 lakh prize money. Says Donna
Marthomg, member of the choir, “Much before we won the title, we
had decided to start a music school. It’s what we always wanted to
do. We tried to move the government, but it was taking really long.
Our dreams have come true.”

The school will be located in Meghalaya. So what prompted the
group of 13 into starting a music school? Adds Donna, “Music is
really a good excuse to take kids away from the streets, from bad
habits. Music is a universal language and nothing is greater than
it. It is an expression in itself. India hardly has any music
schools. Anyone who wants to learn music has to go to the Trinity
College of London, Gildhall School, or the Royal School Of
Music.”