After turning a losing reality-show run into two decades of songs India carried everywhere, Arijit Singh has stopped accepting new playback assignments. His quieter second act leads back to classical music, independent work and the small town that taught him to listen.

The Snappy Kraken cofounder has spent nearly three decades joining logic to showmanship. His latest work measures marketing in assets; his most revealing side project gave a 1923 silent film 108 minutes of new music.

Gregg Lehrman is the founder and CEO of Output, the Los Angeles music software company whose plugins and instruments turn up in records by Billie Eilish, Beyonce, Coldplay, Kendrick Lamar and scores like Stranger Things and Game of Thrones. A Cornell-trained composer who cut his teeth assisting Hans Zimmer and became Universal Publishing's youngest executive producer at 26, Lehrman built Output in 2013 because the creative tools he wanted as a working musician did not yet exist. He bootstrapped the company for seven years before raising a $45M Series A from Summit Partners in 2020, and built Arcade, one of the first cloud-based music plugins.