Mangaluru: Multi-lingual composition, 'The Earth Song' rendered by 17 leading vocalists, five exceptional musicians and six phenomenal poets across the nation, will be launched on May 16 to commemorate and brace India's fight against the lethal pandemic.
Put together in nine different languages including Konkani, Marathi, Kannada, Hindi, English, Tulu, Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam, the song somewhat dwells on the theme of pantheism. However, Music director and composer, Roshan D’souza Angelore from Mangalore has celebrated the beauty of Earth amid the ongoing global crisis with an exquisite tenor to protect the mother nature. The song aims at the importance of doing even small things to reduce our carbon footprint in the face of current corona-crisis.
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Due to the lockdown across most of the nations to curb the spread of coronavirus, the song was shot using mobile phones, the video involves the participation of 20 different families and about 150 people from all over the world. The composer, Roshan D’souza expounded that 'The Earth Song' has been composed, compiled and presented to the people of earth as a gift without any monetary benefit or personal interest involved in it.
He added that besides spreading joy, the song is basically an attempt to raise the awareness amongst people for our Mother Earth and the necessity of taking care of her so that we leave a better planet for generations to come.
The concept of the song initially started with Roshan contemplating to give a new life to an old tune composed in 2011. However, two of his music-fond versatile friends pitched in to make it a musical success.
