2024 Grammy Awards: Indian-American singer Falu’s ‘Abundance in Millets’ song featuring PM Modi gets nomination
The song about millets featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been nominated in the Best Global Music Performance category for the Grammy Awards 2024. The song features Indian-American Grammy-winning singer Falu (Falguni Shah) and her husband and singer Gaurav Shah.
The track titled ‘Abundance of Millets’ talks about the health benefits and the government’s efforts to promote the cereal.
The video for our single “Abundance in Millets” is out now. A song written and performed with honorable Prime Minister @narendramodi to help farmers grow millets and help end world hunger. @UN declared this year as The International Year of Millets! pic.twitter.com/wKXThL2R5Z
— Falu (@FaluMusic) June 28, 2023
‘Abundance of Millets’ is nominated alongside Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily’s ‘Shadow Forces’, Burna Boy’s ‘Alone’, Davido’s ‘Feel’, Silvana Estrada’ track ‘Milagro Y Disastre’, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain featuring Rakesh Chaurasia for ‘Pashto’, Ibrahim Maalouf featuring Cimafunk and Tank and the Bangas’s ‘Todo Colores’.
The year 2023 has been designated as the ‘International Year of Millets‘ after a proposal for it was brought forward by India and endorsed by members of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Governing Bodies, as well as by the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly.
Mumbai-born singer-songwriter, Falguni Shah, known more by her stage name, Falu, and her husband and singer Gaurav Shah, released ‘Abundance of Millets’ in June.
In June, she was quoted as saying that PM Modi had written the song along with her and her husband.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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