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Meet 12yr old that sings in 102 languages, sets new world record (pics)

A 12-year-old Indian girl shattered two world records after she sang in 102 different languages during a concert that went running for 6 hours and 15 minutes.

Suchetha Satish is a seventh grade student at the Indian High School in Dubai. She stunned the audience in a concert that took place on January 25 in Indian Consulate in Dubai.

Born into the family of music lovers, Suchetha began learning Karnatic music at the age of four. She started learning foreign languages in late 2016.

“My first song in a foreign language was in Japanese,” Suchetha told Gulf News, in November 2017. “My father’s friend, a Japanese dermatologist, came to Dubai a year ago. When she came home, she sang a Japanese song. I liked it very much and learnt it.”

“Usually I take around two hours to learn a song. If it is easy to pronounce, I can learn it fast. If it is not a lengthy song, I can finish in half an hour,” Suchetha said.

Songs in French, Hungarian, and German were apparently the most difficult to master, taking Suchetha about two days each. Her favorite songs are the ones in Maori, Armenian and Slovakian.

Suchetha’s original plan was to break the record of fellow countryman Dr Kesiraju Srinivas, aka Ghazal Srinivas, who sang in 76 different languages, back in 2008, by singing songs in 85 languages, in December of last year. However; she was more focused on a triple digit.

She thus set a new Guinness record for singing in most different languages in a concert, and for the longest live concert performed by a child, a record previously held by Romanian Andra Gogan, for a 3 hour and 20 minutes performance.

These are the languages in which Suchethe sang for her world record attempt: Maithili, Sanskrit, Afrikaans, Albanian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Badaga, Balochi, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bhutanese, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dogri, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Garhwali, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Kokborok, Konkani, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Mandarin, Mongolian, Manipuri, Maori, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Odia, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Quechua, Rajasthani, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajiki, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Tulu, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yakut, Yoruba, Zulu, Italian, Japanese, Icelandic, Kurdish, Madurese, Pashto, Latvian, Turkish, Armenian, Spanish, Portugese, Malayalam, Arabic, Hindi.

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