A few days ago I stumbled across this video on YouTube. It really needs no introduction or explanation and is just plain awesome. My favourite bit is between 1:33 and 1:51.
I really loved and you might even say I was a little haunted by the song that played during it and found myself listening to it over and over again. In the description of the video it says the song is called Praan by Garry Schyman. Thinking that it didn't really sound like Garry, I began my search for a video of the actual singer performing it. This led me to another great video. This one has already been viewed over 31 million times so there is a good chance you are familiar with it already and I'm just the last one to know about it but...
It turns out that "Praan" was actually created for this video and the name of the singer is in the end credits. Her name is Palbasha Siddique. Finally now I'll be able to watch her perform it I thought. I figured she was probably some famous veteran singer from somewhere that I couldn't quite guess for sure but it turns out she lives in Minnesota and was only a teenager when she was hired and payed just $1000 to record the song. Considering how many people have now heard and loved it it seems she deserves much more.
I did find a video of Palbasha performing Praan but it isn't at some big concert or on a TV show. It's just her singing in front of a camera in her home with the smoke detector chirping periodically in the background because the battery is low. The sound quality is of course not nearly as good as the professional recording and whoever was running the camera is way too trigger happy with the zoom button but despite all that is does feel like she is singing just for you, for anyone who took the time to search for and find her. And here she is.
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Thanks for the post - I'm surprized how much stuff got in my eyes watching those reunion clips - that's all I'm going to say about that. Definitely one of the most stirring online clips I've ever seen. Maybe I need to get out more?
Oh sorry that last comment was mine.
Russ H
Thanks for sharing Lorin. Russ came home and told me I needed to watch it, so with Sydney sitting on my lap and hugging me I couldn't fight the tears back. I think that I need to share that on Facebook, it was so great!
Stacey H.
Russ and Stacey - I'm glad I was able to introduce you guys to this video and that you liked it as much as I did.
Great video clip Lorin. I watched it at work, and thank goodness they were slicing onions at the same time...ya, I'm sure that's why I got all teary!
Thanks for the videos Lorin. I had seen the first one before but had never seen the other two. I followed some links on that Matt guy and had a great time watching some of his other stuff. I don't know if you watched more of him since you were on the hunt for the girl singing the song so I thought I would pass some of the links on for you. ( The first one is his out takes. The 2nd two are a little long and you have to watch them in order.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZVlwrlz3CI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogcqFaNbah4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVAg6YTgTn4
Marlan - Lucky timing with those onions, glad you liked it too.
Shauna - Thanks for the links. They were almost more fun than the original video. I was doubting the whole hoax speech from the beginning but it was fun to watch the hints become more and more obvious toward the end.
Lorin Beautiful Photo! I love how your Blot title has a reflection as well!
Thanks Tanis!
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