"Ghanan Ghanan" by A.R. Rahman

SONG TITLE: "Ghanan Ghanan"
ARTIST: A.R. Rahman
ALBUM: Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2001
WORDS: in Hindi with pop-up English translation available
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This one is the latest entry on a long and glorious list of songs I've learned to sing phonetically. It started at the age of 11 with Menudo, when the fact that I didn't speak Spanish in no way diminished my teenybopper need to sing along. Not surprisingly, making the right Hindi sounds is a bit more challenging for this white girl than the Spanish ones. I have two additional decades of experience to apply to the situation, though, which pretty much means I can fumble along like a three year-old.

This is the first musical number of the first Bollywood movie I ever saw, and it is the standard against which all others are measured. Perfection!