Apart from singer composer Akshaya Mohanty from Orissa, all top singers of Mumbai and Kolkata including Sandhya Mukherjee, Nirmala Mishra, Usha Uthup, Suresh Wadekar, Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Sunidhi Chauhan have rendered his lyrics.

In June, he joined KBS's Immortal Song 2 where singers render their own versions of old songs from music legends and winners are selected by voting.

Vibes Rogulewski wrote that the singer renders the song more like a pop performer than a R&B, and puts a "wider space between him and the likes of Robin Thicke.

Every singer generally renders the same bandish differently, with only the text and the raga remaining the same.

Computer programs can bleat out tinny approximations, and there are plenty of chances for readings with piano, but the idea of hiring a top-notch professional orchestra and singers to render even part of a new work is unheard of.

For no singer - classical, semi-classical or light - always renders his own compositions.

In the St John Passion, the St Matthew Passion and the lost St Mark Passion the singer renders the exact words of the Bible, translated by Martin Luther.

On 16 and 23 June, following the footsteps of band mates Yesung and Kyuhyun, Ryeowook joined KBS's Immortal Song 2 with Sunggyu of Infinite, where singers render their own versions of songs from music legends and winners are selected by voting.

Let us hope and pray that more citizens of our country, and with them the author of "The War Against Boys," will seek the truths about those boys (and girls) that our novelists and poets and singers render for our consideration.

Onstage, Mr. Monahan plays an electronic organ and singers render a variety of songs as bad lounge music.