This New York-based Indian musician composed songs to answer her son’s frequent questions about the Indian way of life. That album has now been nominated for a Grammy. Falguni Shah, aka Falu, spoke to Brut India about her music’s global popularity.
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00:00I never expected this and I'm so proud that I will be the only Indian at the Grammys this year and let's hope I can win it for our country.
00:30Honestly, it's all just synced in. Even now, I only wrote this for my child. This album was made just to answer some questions my little boy had.
00:52Nowhere did I imagine that a lot of Americans, Indians, South Asians, Chinese, whoever, are going to gravitate towards this as a learning tool and an educational tool for their children.
01:07But it picked up a coloring and an activity book that a child can color and it also has beautiful pictures of all the Indian stuff that we have created sonically so the child sees it visually.
01:24When my son started going to school, he came back with all these questions of why do we speak a different language at home that I don't speak at school? Why is our food yellow? Why do we count our numbers differently?
01:46And I felt like the best way to answer his questions was writing songs and making music for him.
02:16It is our time now. It is. The time is now. The momentum is now. People are ready to embrace what we have to offer.
02:34India is rich with its culture, its heritage, its music, its art, its fashion and I think the world is ready. We just have to be authentic to ourselves and give the best of what we have learned.
03:04India is rich with its culture, its heritage, its music, its art, its fashion and I think the world is ready. We just have to be authentic to ourselves and give the best of what we have learned.
03:31There are seven suns, seven colors, seven sunsets, seven days, seven oceans.
03:52Come along and sing with me.