Ahead Of PM Modi's US Visit, Indian-American Grammy Winner Falguni Shah Sings A Song On Millets

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had teamed up with Falguni Shah ( Falu) to promote a song that spoke about their advantages and their potential to reduce world hunger.

New Delhi: Indian-American Grammy award-winning singer Falguni Shah and her husband Gaurav Shah sang a special song 'Abundance in Millets' in order to promote the benefits of millets and their potential to alleviate world hunger. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had teamed up with Falguni Shah ( Falu) to promote a song that spoke about their advantages and their potential to reduce world hunger.

A video featuring Falguni and Gaurav was shared by the Twitter handle of news agency ANI which wrote, "#WATCH | New York, USA: Grammy award winning Indian-American singer Falu (Falguni Shah) (@FaluMusic) and her husband Gaurav Shah sing ‘Abundance in Millets’ - a special song to promote the benefits of millets and their potential to alleviate world hunger."

 

The 75th session of the UN General Assembly and the members of the FAO Governing Bodies agreed to declare 2023 the 'International Year of Millets' at the request of India. 

Falguni Shah had told a news agency ahead of the song release on June 16, "Prime Minister Modi has written a song with me and my husband Gaurav Shah."

"Falu and Gaurav Shah will release the track ‘Abundance in Millets’ featuring the Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 16, 2023 in celebration of the International Year of the Millets. 'Abundance in Millets' was created to raise awareness of the super grain as another potential key to minimizing world hunger,” said a statement on Falu’s website.

For those unaware, Falu won the Grammy for Best Children's Album in 2022 for her album 'A Colourful World'. She alleged that meeting Modi in New Delhi the year before her Grammy triumph gave her the inspiration to write a song on millets.

She also told PTI that during this conversation, Prime Minister proposed to her that she write a song with a message of eradicating hunger. Sheadded that PM Modi suggested recording a song about millets because music knows no bounds. Falguni also added that the prime minister accepted when she 'naively' asked him to co-write the song with her.

“We have collaborated on the song, it’s a single, and it’s coming out on June 16," with a worldwide release on every streaming platform, she said.