For the first time in Chicago, the grand maestro and musical prodigy AR Rahman kicked off his three dimensional tour in North America to a jam packed audience over 8000 people of Indian Origin from the Midwest at the Sears Center in Chicago. The concert started at 9pm on Saturday night and ended at midnight. Towards his last song he had the entire Sears Center on its feet.
The three hour concert had various numbers from both Hindi and Tamil hits of AR Rahman's including 4 songs from his latest yet to be released Sivaji. The crowd was awe struck by the drums of Sivamani, and the rap capability of Blaaze. The music troupe included Hariharan, Sukhinder, Naresh, Vijay Jesudas, Chitra, Madhusree, Sadhana Sargam and Rahman's sister Rehana.
Rahman introduced a new key board called Continuum which is the first key board that has classical notes.
He infused National Integration by starting songs in Hindi and ending the same song in Tamil that entertained the crowd.