Artist Aloud – The App, India’s only independent content app for fans, artists, producers and labels and Hard Rock Cafe- the iconic, rock-themed chain of restaurants today announced a nationwide digital talent hunt to offer budding talent across India a platform to voice their Talent Out Aloud with #IMALOUD@HRC. #IMALOUD@HRC will be an ongoing property with the hunt starting this November 2016.

Artist Aloud – The App is a freely accessible platform across iOS, Android and Windows for independent artists to showcase their talent. The #IMALOUD@HRC propertywill provide an accessible platform for independent artists to showcase their talent and allow them tocreate visibility for themselves as an artist with the complete freedom of expression.  Interested talent can go on to the Artist Aloud – The App and upload videos of their performances (original content or covers) with Artist Aloud and Hard Rock Café playing the role of a curator handpicking the best of the best to perform on the legendary stage of Hard Rock Café. Supporting this special initiative are leading names of the music fraternity like Subir Malik, Palash Sen, Luke Kenny, Manasi Scott and Shilpa Rao. These experts will also help curating the talent and choosing the winners.

The talented bands or artists will get a chance to perform at a Hard Rock Café venue in their respective city.

Soumini Sridhara Paul, Vice President, Artist Aloud said, “Artist Aloud – The App exists to help promote and give independent music a louder voice. With #IMALOUD@HRC we take this initiative, a step further with a nation-wide talent hunt where-in we will give deserving new talent a live stage to voice their sound out loud at an iconic venue like Hard Rock Café.”

Jay Singh, Co-Founder & Executive Director, JSM Corporation Pvt. Ltd. said, “Hard Rock Café is very excited about partnering with Artist Aloud to discover a new wave of talented musicians. We hope that this platform will benefit the musical community for years to come.”

Says Shilpa Rao “Artist Aloud is always pushing boundaries in what they do other than giving a platform to independent artists. #IMALOUD@HRC is a great initiative to give up and coming artists an exposure in the live music space.”

The #IMALOUD@HRC contest with the help of Artist Aloud – The App fulfils the dream of many independent artists who have dreamed of performing on the Hard Rock Café stage where many legendary bands have played. Hard Rock Café with world's largest collection of rock n' roll memorabilia, of music equipment, stage costumes, etc. has practically seen every music legend Indian or international perform at their iconic venues across the globe.

Says Palash Sen “This is gonna be a great opportunity for a lot of bands out there to experience the thrill of being on stage, performing at Hard Rock Café! Artist Aloud is always encouraging new talent and giving them spotlight they deserve. With their new funky app, it’s just a step ahead for bands to get discovered!”

On Artist Aloud – The App, artists can share their content with the world without losing the copyrights of their own content. The most significant feature about this app is ‘interactivity’. It enables active engagement between the artists, producers and the consumers of their content.