<p>Showing his lighter side, Rahul Gandhi today recalled his "shortlived singing career" during school days, drawing smiles all around at an event here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The reviews, however, were not too kind after he nervously belted out a song surrounded by his seniors during one of his initial days in high school and he never tried public singing again, the Congress Vice President said.<br /><br />"That's not music, that's just noise" was the response of one of the students in the audience, Gandhi recalled while speaking at a function where noted singer Shubha Mudgal was conferred the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award for 2014-15 on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister.<br /><br />Narrating the incident, 46-year-old Gandhi said the ordeal started when the entire class was one day called into the common room.<br /><br />"There surrounded by seniors we were asked one by one to stand on a stool and sing a song. Any song.<br /><br />"I can still remember the dread I felt as I stood up on that stool. I didn't know how to sing so I stood there quietly for a moment until someone shouted 'Arre sing something yaar'."<br /><br />"I can't even tell you what I felt as I quickly belted out a song, the first song I could think of. I finished and as I hurriedly jumped off the stool someone shouted: 'That's not music that's just noise'," Gandhi said amid peals of laughter.<br /><br />He said that was the the first and hopefully the last time he sang in public. "It has been 34 years now since I jumped off that stool - and I still can't sing."</p>
<p>Showing his lighter side, Rahul Gandhi today recalled his "shortlived singing career" during school days, drawing smiles all around at an event here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The reviews, however, were not too kind after he nervously belted out a song surrounded by his seniors during one of his initial days in high school and he never tried public singing again, the Congress Vice President said.<br /><br />"That's not music, that's just noise" was the response of one of the students in the audience, Gandhi recalled while speaking at a function where noted singer Shubha Mudgal was conferred the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award for 2014-15 on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister.<br /><br />Narrating the incident, 46-year-old Gandhi said the ordeal started when the entire class was one day called into the common room.<br /><br />"There surrounded by seniors we were asked one by one to stand on a stool and sing a song. Any song.<br /><br />"I can still remember the dread I felt as I stood up on that stool. I didn't know how to sing so I stood there quietly for a moment until someone shouted 'Arre sing something yaar'."<br /><br />"I can't even tell you what I felt as I quickly belted out a song, the first song I could think of. I finished and as I hurriedly jumped off the stool someone shouted: 'That's not music that's just noise'," Gandhi said amid peals of laughter.<br /><br />He said that was the the first and hopefully the last time he sang in public. "It has been 34 years now since I jumped off that stool - and I still can't sing."</p>