In the presence of PM Modi, award-winning worldwide singer Mary Millben carried out Jana Gana Mana on the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington. Soon after her efficiency, African-American singer Millben touched Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s feet and took his blessings at an occasion.
Sharing a video on Twitter, BJP’s Amit Malviya wrote, “American singer Mary Milliben, after singing India’s national anthem, touches Prime Minister Modi’s feet… Earlier Prime Minister of PNG, in a moving gesture, had bowed down in reverence. The world respects PM Modi’s powerful spiritual aura and rootedness in Indian values and culture…”
Highly fashionable in India for her singing of the National Anthem Jan Gana Mana and Om Jai Jagdish Hare, Millben, 38, carried out the Indian nationwide anthem at an invitation-only, diaspora occasion hosted by the United States Indian Community Foundation (USICF) on the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC.
“Having performed the American national anthem and patriotic music for four consecutive US presidents, I am deeply honoured to perform the Indian national anthem for Prime Minister Modi and in honour of the country and people I have come to call my family,” the singer mentioned in an announcement.
“Both the American and Indian anthems speak to the ideals of democracy and freedom, and this is the true essence of the US-India relationship. A free nation is only defined by a free people,” she mentioned.
Millben has carried out the National Anthem and patriotic music for 4 consecutive US Presidents – George W Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, in addition to worldwide royalty, and world leaders.
She made her first journey to India performing in celebration of India’s seventy fifth Anniversary of Independence as an official visitor from the United States invited by the Government of India, the Ministry of External Affairs, and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
The singer made historical past as the primary American and African-American artist to be invited to India for the Independence Day observance and for an viewers of 1.4 billion individuals.
(With inputs from PTI)
