{"id":34987,"date":"2019-05-01T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T07:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=34987"},"modified":"2019-05-01T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T07:09:37","slug":"no-madonna-did-not-sing-the-hanuman-chalisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-madonna-did-not-sing-the-hanuman-chalisa\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Madonna did not sing the Hanuman Chalisa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video is viral on social media suggesting that American artist Madonna has sung the Hanuman Chalisa. “Hanuman Chalisa by Madonna”,\u00a0<\/em>tweeted<\/a> Renuka Jain on April 25, with a video of a lady singing a devotional hymn (Hanuman Chalisa) to Lord Hanuman. <\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eWojWAuBDrI<\/a><\/p>\n

Several other individual users on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> have shared the video with an identical narrative.<\/p>\n

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Not Madonna<\/h2>\n

Alt News used Yandex’s reverse image search feature to determine the artist’s identity. Reverse image searching a frame from the viral video suggested that the name of the band could possibly be ‘Shanti People’.<\/p>\n

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The vocalist, who is singing the Hanuman Chalisa, in the viral video is not Madonna as claimed. She is Uma Devi, a vocalist of the group named, Shanti People<\/a>. We found the viral video posted on the band’s official Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

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Shanti People – Hanuman Jam (Live at Kyiv)<\/a><\/p>\n

First video from the concert Urban Mantras.
\nTo Be Continued …<\/p>\n

Shanti People – Hanuman Jam | Live at Kyiv 2015 | Atmasfera 360\u2022<\/p>\n

Vocal – Natasha Uma
\nBass – Egor Bass
\nDrums – Denis Shvets
\nTabla – Khola Wala (Nila Gopal)<\/p>\n

Video – \u0414\u041e\u041a\u0423\u0422\u041e\u041b\u041e\u041a\u0410
\nSound – Bogdan Gorlov<\/p>\n

Makeup and Hair style by Dara Dukhnovskaya<\/p>\n

Posted by Shanti People<\/a> on Tuesday, 26 May 2015<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The caption along with the video on the Facebook page that can be seen in the screenshot posted below clearly states the identities of the individual artists, “Vocal – Natasha Uma”. \"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Uma is from Russia and resides in Ukraine, according to her Facebook<\/a> profile. In the comparison below, on the left is a still (from the video) which is that of Uma, the vocalist of Shanti People while on the right is the American pop star, Madonna.<\/p>\n

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“Shanti People is a music band that mix ancient Vedic Mantras with contemporary electronic dance music (EDM)”<\/em>, stated the about-us section of their official website<\/a>. This video was earlier debunked by India Today<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A video is viral on social media suggesting that American artist Madonna has sung the Hanuman Chalisa. “Hanuman Chalisa by Madonna”,\u00a0tweeted Renuka Jain on April 25, with a video of a lady singing a devotional hymn (Hanuman Chalisa) to Lord Hanuman. Several other individual users on Twitter and Facebook have shared the video with an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":35034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-34987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/comparison-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35051,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions\/35051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}