‘A song is always bigger than the singer, and I am nothing in front of audiences like you who make me who I am,’ said Uthup, before beginning the evening with the Oscar-winning song, ‘Skyfall’. As she finished to thunderous applause, the singer confessed, ‘This is a very difficult song for me to sing, I’m always scared of the last note. Even today, I kept praying to God, let me sing like I have never sung before!’
‘I’m so proud to invite my beautiful first child on stage,' Uthup said, introducing daughter Anjali (above), who reminisced about her visit to the museum ‘The last time I came to the Indian Museum was as a schoolkid and it’s so special to perform here in front of my school friends and husband. Coming back with all these experiences makes me feel like a part of this heritage’
Anjali’s presence brought out a new side of Uthup, as the veteran singer took on the percussionist’s role while her daughter was on vocals. After performing ‘Mamma Mia’, a popular number from the music legend’s early days at Trincas, Anjali joked, ‘Even when Amma is a singer, she won’t stop being a mother. She thought I hadn’t read the brief, so she kept prompting me throughout the song!’
Before the duo’s rendition of the popular Lenon song ‘Imagine’, the singer said, ‘This song is more relevant today than ever before. I’ve sung it in both Russia and Ukraine and I feel we all need to sing it together now’. Enthusiastic chants of ‘One more song’ persuaded her to end the night with ‘Sway’ as the audience lit up the evening with their phones
