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Musical
union
Sixty-nine-year-old
performer Granmoun Lele, a rage in the French island of Reunion, only
talks in a heavy dialect of French ... and his manager knows no English.
But they together eventually succeeded in making their point: Lele's
grandmother was a "slave" in Kerala early this century and this
trip to Delhi "was like a homecoming". So with his wife and
eight of his 13 children, Lele hopped hard to maloya, a musical cocktail
perfected by sugarcane workers of the region. The evening, strung together
by Music Today (which released composer Indraneel's album), Alliance
Francaise and Friends of Music, also saw buffs take to the floor --
the tireless Lele continuing
till the very last.
-Anshul
Avijit
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