{"id":322738,"date":"2020-04-29T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322738"},"modified":"2020-04-29T19:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:03:24","slug":"one-nation-one-voice-100-singers-come-together-to-pay-tribute-to-corona-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/one-nation-one-voice-100-singers-come-together-to-pay-tribute-to-corona-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"One Nation One Voice: 100 singers come together to pay tribute to corona warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"About 100 singers from Indian Singers Rights Association (ISRA) will come together in\u00a0One Nation One Voice<\/em>\u00a0– an anthem dedicated to corona warriors and in aid of PM Cares.\u00a0One Nation One Voice\u00a0<\/em>is an acapella rendition by 100 artists in 14 languages and is the largest anthem platform ever.\u00a0An ISRA release said that the initiative has the blessings of Bharat Ratna, Lata Mangeshkar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Commenting on the initiative legendary singer Asha Bhosle stated\u00a0\u201cSingers are artists who have always expressed numerous feelings of the masses in several musical ways. Thus, on this occasion when all of us are fighting against Corona as One Nation ably led by our Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, we 100 Singers of the Country under ISRA decided to express our love for the nation and dedicate this Song as One Voice.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She further added, \u201cThe anthem will be dedicated to the nation by Lata Mangeshkar on behalf of ISRA on 3<\/em>rd\u00a0May 2020.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Never before has a galaxy of artists as large has come together for a cause. Singing in 14 different languages are legendary singers Asha Bhosle,\u00a0Anup Jalota, Alka Yagnik, Hariharan, Kailash Kher, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kumar Sanu, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Mano, Pankaj Udhas, S. P. Balasubramanian, Shaan, Sonu Nigam, Sudhesh Bhosle , Suresh Wadkar , Shailendra Singh, Srinivas, Talat Aziz, Udit Narayan,\u00a0 Shankar Mahadevan ,\u00a0 Jasbir Jassi\u00a0 and 80 more artists.\u00a0Thanking the singers for their contribution\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Sanjay Tandon, CEO of ISRA said\u00a0\u201cOne Nation One Voice in aid of PM Cares is a dedication from ISRA where 100 artists pay tribute to all the people in the forefront of the battle against the Corona Virus and all the people at home who have supported the lockdown\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The song will be released across over 100 platforms on 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0May -these include TV, Radio, Social Media, Applications, OTT, VOD, ISP, DTH and CRBT. \u201cOne Nation One voice not just an anthem it\u2019s a National movement\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>we have over 100 broadcast, social, amplification and tech platforms supporting the launch\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said Sukrit Singh of XP&D BeLive.<\/span><\/p>\n

The anthem is the brainchild of Sonu Nigam, Srinivas and Sanjay Tandon.\u00a0Speaking of the inspiration for the anthem, the multi-talented\u00a0Sonu Nigam said\u00a0\u201cThis is a collective tribute to the mammoth struggle and effort our Government and the entire medical and health workers are putting together in these times of global crisis. 100 singers coming together from different corners of India, is an unprecedented show of solidarity and love.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Talking of their collaboration\u00a0Srinivas commented\u00a0\u201cAs artistes, it is our time to contribute in our own humble way. ISRA being the treasure house of singers in this country, we embark on a song with 100 voices and nothing else, to stir the nation\u2019s heart and re affirm our solidarity. A hundred voices sing in unison for the nation.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What makes the anthem even more appealing is that every artist has recorded from home, during this lockdown.\u00a0Manish Baradia, Creative Director of Moving Pixels says\u00a0\u201cWorking with home recording of audio and video is a beautiful challenge. There is\u00a0a certain sincerity and effort that comes through that no packaging can match. The end result is inspiring. The anthem is composed for the digital age and can be enjoyed on TV, Radio, Devices and Caller Ring Tones.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The song is in 14 languages which include \u2022 Hindi \u2022 Bengali \u2022 Marathi \u2022 Gujrati \u2022 Tamil \u2022 Telugu \u2022 Kannada \u2022 Malayalam \u2022 Bhojpuri \u2022 Assamese \u2022 Kashmiri \u2022 Sindhi \u2022 Rajasthani \u2022 Odiya<\/span><\/p>\n

The artists\u00a0who have contributed to the video include\u00a0–\u00a0Asha Bhosle |Anup Jalota |Alka Yagnik |Hariharan |Kailash Kher |Kavita Krishnamurthy| Kumar Sanu | Mahalakshmi Iyer | Mano | Pankaj Udhas | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam | Shaan| Sonu Nigam| Shailendra Singh| Sudesh Bhosle| Suresh Wadkar| Srinivas| Talat Aziz| Udit Narayan| Aalap Raju| Abhijeet Bhattacharya| Amit Kumar Ganguly| Ananthu| Anitha\u00a0Karthikeyan| Anuradha Paudwal | Aravind Venugopal | Ashit Desai| B K Sumitra| Blaaze| Devan Ekambaram | G. Venugopal| Ganga Sitharasu| Ghanshyam Vaswani | Gopika Poornima| Haricharan | Harini | Harish Raghavendra | Hemambika| Janaki Iyer | Jasbir Jassi| K. S. Chithra| Karpagam | Karthik | Keerti Sagathia| Krishna Beura| Krishnachandran| M Amruta| M Manasi| M. G. Sreekumar | Mahati |Mallikarjun | Mame Khan | Megha| MK Balaji | Monissha M M| Mukesh | Naresh Iyer | Naveen Madhav | P. Unnikrishnan | Pappon | Pravin Saivi| Priya Himesh | Priya Prakash | Rahul Nambiar | Ramya NSK | Ranina Reddy | Ranjith| Reshmi | Richa Sharma | Roshni| S. J. Janani | S. P. B. Charan| S. P. Sailaja| Saapna Mukherjee| Saandip Backchu| Saindhavi | Sangeetha Rajeswaran | Sathyaprakash| Shamita Malnaad | Shankar Mahadevan | Sharanya Srinivas | Shweta Mohan| Sowmya Raoh | Sri Vardhini | Srikanth Deva | Sucharitha|Suchith\u00a0| Sujatha | Surmukhi | T. L. Mahalingam| Tippu | Usha Uthup | Uthara Unnikrishnan | Vandana Srinivasan |Veeramanidasan|\u00a0Venu Srirangam| Vijay Prakash | Vijay Yesudas | Vinitha | VV Prasanna.<\/span><\/p>\n

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About 100 singers from Indian Singers Rights Association (ISRA) will come together in\u00a0One Nation One Voice\u00a0– an anthem dedicated to corona warriors and in aid of PM Cares.\u00a0One Nation One Voice\u00a0is an acapella rendition by 100 artists in 14 languages and is the largest anthem platform ever.\u00a0An ISRA release said that the initiative has the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":322739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322743,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322738\/revisions\/322743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}