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• The song ‘Abundance in Millets‘, featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sung by Falguni Shah and her husband Gaurav Shah, has been nominated in the best global music performance category at the 2024 Grammy Awards.

Abundance in Millets Song

• Abundance in Millets” was created to raise awareness of the super-grain as another potential key to minimizing world hunger. 
• The song is inspired by PM Narendra Modi’s proposition to the UN to declare 2023 as the International Year of Millets.

About Falguni Shah

• She is a Grammy Award-winning Indian vocalist and songwriter. 
• In 2022, Falguni Shah won the Grammy Award for Best Children’s Music Album ‘A Colorful World.’
• Falguni Shah is a singer, songwriter, and also the 1st South Asian woman to win a Grammy.

About Grammy Awards

• They are a series of awards presented annually in the United States by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences(NARAS; commonly called the Recording Academy) or the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS; commonly called the Latin Recording Academy) to recognize achievement in the music industry. 
• Winners are selected from more than 25 fields, which cover such genres as pop, rock, rap, R&B, country, reggae, classical, gospel, and jazz, as well as production and postproduction work, including packaging and album notes. 
• The honorees receive a golden statuette of a gramophone.

News Source: Live Mint