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The colour you choose
Updated On: 11 April, 2022 07:31 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
After previously losing out in the Best Children’s Album category in 2019, Indian origin singer Falu adds a Grammy win to her credentials for her 2021 album, A Colourful World
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In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, singer Falu’s 10-year old son Nishaad returned home to ask her a disturbing question — ‘Am I unsafe [in New York] because of my colour?’ Discussion around the African American’s death had become part of conversations in schools, and the New York-based Indian origin singer admits that “while raising a brown boy”, a certain amount of training to ensure his safety, is imperative. “That’s not a question any parent wishes to encounter,” she tells us. “It is a discussion that takes place at the dinner table of every family of colour. You teach them to stay out of trouble, focus on the work, but be aware of their surroundings.”
Moments like these, she says, inspired the making of her 2021 album, A Colourful World, which earned her a Grammy Award — a first for an Indian female in the Best Children’s Album category — last week.
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