Song on millets featuring PM Modi gets Grammy nomination

A special song on millets featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi has officially been nominated for this year’s coveted music award Grammy under the best global music performance category.

The song called ‘Abundance of Millets’ is sung by Mumbai-based singer Falguni Shah, popularly known by her stage name Falu, and her husband Gaurav Shah. It highlights the health benefits of millet.

The song features PM Modi’s speech on the benefits of millet. 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 the members of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) governing bodies as well as the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly.

Ahead of the song’s release this year, Falu said, “Prime Minister Modi has written a song with me and my husband Gaurav Shah.”

The “Abundance in Millets” track featuring Modi was released in June in celebration of the “International Year of Millets”.

“Abundance in Millets” was created to raise awareness regarding the super grain as another potential key to minimising world hunger, according to a statement on Falu’s website.

Falu, who received the Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album in 2022 for her album “A Colorful World”, had said the idea to write a song about millets came to her when she met Modi in New Delhi last year after her Grammy win.

She had said the prime minister had told her that she should write a song with a message on ending hunger during their discussion on the power of music to bring changes and uplift humanity.

With inputs from PTI