A 12-year-old girl, who can sing songs in 80 languages, is
trying to break the Guinness world record in singing in most languages in one
concert, according to a media report.
Suchetha
Satish, a grade seven student of The Indian High School in Dubai, will attempt
to sing songs in 85 languages during the attempt scheduled for December 29, the Gulf
News reported.
The
Dubai prodigy said she knows to sing songs in 80 languages, a skill she
acquired in just over a year.
Her
plan is to learn at least five more songs in five different languages before
she attempts to break the record, the report said.
Hailing
from Kerala, Suchetha already knew to sing in some Indian languages like Hindi,
Malayalam and Tamil. She has also been singing English songs in school
competitions. But it was only last year that she started singing in other
foreign languages.
“My
first song in a foreign language was in Japanese,” said Suchetha.
Difficult
ones
“My
father’s friend, a Japanese dermatologist, came to Dubai a year ago. When she
came home, she sang a Japanese song. I liked it very much and learnt it,” she
added. “Usually I take around two hours to learn a song. If it is easy to
pronounce, I can learn it fast. If it is not a lengthy song, I can finish in
half an hour,” she said.
French,
Hungarian, and German were the most difficult ones for her.
Source: THE HINDU-13th November,2017
