Indian-American singer and songwriter Zeshan B is teaming up with former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara for his forthcoming third album “O Say, Can You See” India-born Bharara, who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017, is executive producing the album set to be released on June 26.
“Before I met Preet I felt a lot of rage over all the things that are going on in the world, and I think my earlier albums were a sort of sophomoric way of channeling that rage,” Zeshan told Variety.
“But my discussions and interactions with Preet allowed me to craft a more balanced approach... with this album, I tried to craft things that were more universal. Inside me is a burning, burning desire for something better for this human experiment, and if I used my voice for anything else, then I wouldn’t be doing justice to myself or the people around me.”
The 36-year-old whose parents came to the US from Mumbai said his songs in “O Say, Can You See” were written in “the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, the 2020 election, the January 6th insurrection, and the overturning of Roe v Wade.
Bharara is currently hosting two major podcasts, “Stay Tuned” and “Café Insider” and is a partner at law firm WilmerHale. He decided to get involved in Zeshan’s career after seeing him perform at a book launch event.
“I was just floored by the music, I was floored by his voice, I was floored by the message in those songs,” Bharara recalls, “and we became fast friends right away," Bharara, who hails from Firozpur in Punjab, told Variety.
