MUMBAI: Radio City 91.1 FM has undertaken a unique initiative in Hyderabd to popularise international music by getting Sandeep Chowta to be its star guest and host.

Chowta has worked on Bollywood films like Satya, Company, Bollywood Hollywood, Mast, Jungle, Ashoka and Vaastav. His songs include Khallas, Babuji, Kambakht Ishq and Laila Laila. He has a rich background in jazz, and has also won international recognition as the only Asian composer to feature in Tata Young's worldwide album with Sir Paul McCartney and musical luminaries, informs an official release.

Radio City has joined hands with him to promote his upcoming jazz concert on 12 December titled Waiting for Tonight, where Grammy award master musicians like Bunny Brunel (Bass Guitar), Mitch Forman (Keyboards), Frank Gambale (Guitar), Virgil Donati (drums) will display to an awestruck Hyderabad audience their considerable musical talent.

From 1 December Radio City will run an on-air contest. The musical Chowta will be the celeb RJ in all shows for the day on 10 December talking about the jazz festival and his passion for music The Jazz concert will also be conducted in Bangalore and Mumbai, and Radio City will be exclusively partnering the same.

According to Radio City Rana Barua head marketing, "Radio City has always believed in bringing to our listeners the best, through the best. We constantly push the envelope by offering differentiated and innovative programming to our listeners.. With 'Sham-E-Ghazal With Roop Kumar Rathod', we pioneered the trend of celebrity RJs, which received tremendous listener feedback and advertiser response. We are proud to be hosting Sandeep Chowta and are certain that our endeavour to popularise quality international music will be well received by our listeners "