It was eventually a non-film album “Breathless” released in 1998 that established him as a singer. Singing offers in films did come in the late 1990s but he was typecast as a backup vocalist to be used for high-pitched alaaps and harkats. Despite limited opportunities and bad luck (Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy’s debut movie “Dus” was shelved in 1997 when director Mukul Anand died), Shankar continued experimenting with collaborations like the band Remembering Shakti (with John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain among others) and Silk World Music Group (with Sivamani and Louis Banks). He had to wait till 1993 for singing debut movie in a Hindi movie, when he sang a ghazal for “Muhafiz” (also called “In Custody”).
In 1987, he met a Swedish band called Mynta that was touring India and teamed up with them along with tabla player Fazal Qureshi (Zakir Hussain’s younger brother). While Shankar made his singing debut in 1985 for the Marathi movie “Vahinichi Maya”, it would be many more years before he got popular acclaim. He then worked as a software engineer at Oracle but he gave it all up and decided to pursue a career in singing and later in composing music as part of the Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy trio. He graduated in 1988 with a Computer Science degree from Mumbai University.
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