“The experience has been surreal,” said Usha Uthup over a telephone call from Rome, last evening. The Kolkata singer sang at the canonisation of Mother Teresa
Usha Uthup
“The experience has been surreal,” said Usha Uthup over a telephone call from Rome, last evening. The Kolkata singer sang at the canonisation of Mother Teresa. “It has been unbelievable. I am absolutely spent in happiness. I have witnessed such scenes and been part of a piece of history. I am so grateful to God for making this possible. Somebody I talked with, walked with, worked with, shared and cared with... I always knew she was a living Saint, but yesterday she was proclaimed a Saint in front of the whole world,” said Uthup, who added the waves of excitement were still coursing through her body at what she had witnessed.
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The crooner said that though now based in Kolkata, she is originally a Mumbai girl; she studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary (CJM) in Byculla, “and because I am from a Convent school, all those lessons I learnt really came alive for me yesterday.”
Uthup is flying back to India today. “Everything still has to seep in completely. I need time to process. Though I sang one song called ‘Poorest Of The Poor’ that I had written myself, it was the sense of occasion that was simply mesmerising. The gravity and the realisation that history was being made was so powerful, overwhelming almost. I know this feeling will not be replicated ever,” she signed off.
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