Close X
Monday, November 25, 2024
ADVT 
Interesting

Indian American Singer Revives George Perkins' Civil Rights Anthem

IANS, 14 Feb, 2017 01:44 PM
    Indian American singer Zeshan Bagewadi has repurposed George Perkinss 1970 song "Cryin in the streets" as a song for todays civil rights struggles, an American radio network reported.
     
    The original song was based on an observation of the Martin Luther King Jr's funeral, but Bagewadi echoed it as the reflection of his own experiences as a Muslim and Indian American.
     
    "I see somebody marching in the street. I see somebody crying in the street. I see somebody dying in the street.' [I was] struck... how simple it was, how poignant it was," Bagewadi told Public Radio International (PRI) reported.
     
    "What needs to be done here is simple. Muslims need to ally ourselves with those who have paved a path for us and who has been on the front line of the struggles. So we need to appropriate their struggle. We need to appropriate the pain," Bagewadi said.
     
    Bagewadi was born to Indian Muslim parents in Chicago. His father was a journalist, one of the few in India to cover the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and 70s, American Bazaar Online reported on Tuesday.
     
    "My father was always drawn to the black artistic expressions and read Lanston Hughes, Zora Hurston," Bagewadi added.
     
    "You listen to Curtis Mayfield sing ‘people get ready, there's a train a comin.' You listen to Mahalia Jackson singing ‘Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho.' If that doesn't galvanise you, I don't know what will," he said.
     
    Music has more power than mere words, he added.

    MORE Interesting ARTICLES

    Yahoo Deletes Trump Tweet That Included Racist Slur

    Yahoo Finance says it accidently tweeted out a racial epithet when promoting a story about the cost of President-elect Donald Trump's plans to increase the size of the U.S. Navy.

    Yahoo Deletes Trump Tweet That Included Racist Slur

    WATCH: Son Of Former Taiwanese Official Hires 50 Strippers For Procession Of His Late Father

    WATCH: Son Of Former Taiwanese Official Hires 50 Strippers For Procession Of His Late Father
    Fifty pole dancers clad in black bikinis gave one Taiwan politician a raucous final send-off in an eyebrow-raising funeral parade that jammed traffic and drew crowds of onlookers.

    WATCH: Son Of Former Taiwanese Official Hires 50 Strippers For Procession Of His Late Father

    Mysterious Radio Signal Traced To Distant Dwarf Galaxy

    Mysterious Radio Signal Traced To Distant Dwarf Galaxy
    In a first, astronomers, including one of Indian-origin, have traced the source of a mysterious radio signal to a dwarf galaxy more than three billion light years from Earth.

    Mysterious Radio Signal Traced To Distant Dwarf Galaxy

    Proven! Giving Peanut-Based Foods To Babies Early Prevents Allergies

    Proven! Giving Peanut-Based Foods To Babies Early Prevents Allergies
    Most babies should start eating peanut-containing foods well before their first birthday, say guidelines released Thursday that aim to protect high-risk tots and other youngsters, too, from developing the dangerous food allergy.

    Proven! Giving Peanut-Based Foods To Babies Early Prevents Allergies

    Ballet Dancer Says She's Losing Job Because She's Too Tall

    Ballet Dancer Says She's Losing Job Because She's Too Tall
    Sara Michelle Murawski says her one-year contract won't be renewed in May. The Philadelphia Inquirer says the 25-year-old is a few inches taller when dancing on pointe. Many of her female peers are about 5-foot-6.

    Ballet Dancer Says She's Losing Job Because She's Too Tall

    Former USAID Chief Rajiv Shah To Head Rockefeller Foundation

    Former USAID Chief Rajiv Shah To Head Rockefeller Foundation
    Rajiv Shah, who headed the US government's foreign aid operations, has been appointed the head of the Rockefeller Foundation, a multi-billion dollar private global charity with programmes in India.

    Former USAID Chief Rajiv Shah To Head Rockefeller Foundation