South African singer wins six hits with Hanuman Chalisa

The South African singer of Indian origin Vandana Naran was inundated with congratulatory messages after launching a CD featuring the Hanuman Chalisa in six different musical variations.

Ms. Naran presented some of the live footage at the annual United Hanuman Chalisa ceremony in Lenasia, the vast Indian town south of Johanensburg, on Sunday, during which groups of bhajans from across the country attended 20 minutes for 12 hours no Recite the devotional prayer.

The Hanuman Chalisa is a devotional composition composed of 40 verses of Goswami Tulsidas, best known as the author of the mythological epic Ramcharitmanas, in tribute to Lord Hanuman.

"We decided to bademble this CD in different versions of the Hanuman Chalisa so that it could appeal to different age groups," Naran told PTI.

"There are traditional versions that will appeal more to the elderly." And then there are more modern musical versions for the younger group, using electronic music as a background.

Of course, the words stay exactly the same, but the interpretations are different, "added the singer.

Ms. Naran, who has won numerous local song competitions and produced abroad, studied clbadical music Indian when she was a child with her sister Jagruthi in the United States, while their father, Jagdish, worked there for four years.

Returning from the family In South Africa, the sisters and Naran in particular deepened their musical interests, Mrs. Naran concentrating on singing and Jagruthi on musical composition.

Jagdish attends the recording of technical studios.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the n Last year, Nelson Mandela's trio translated into Hindi the first South African national anthem in the world, adapting lyrics composed by a teacher from Pietermaritzburg. years earlier after being ejected from a white train.