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Indian American artist joins Armaan Malik for UN’s music campaign
A global lineup of over 30 acclaimed artists will be releasing new music, featuring the sounds of nature from birdsong and rainfall to glaciers and rainforest wildlife.
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Staff Reporter
- Tue, 22, Apr 2025
- 04:01 EDT
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Raveena and Armaan Malik / Sterling Global
This Earth Day, Indian singer-songwriter Armaan Malik and his Indian-American counterpart Raveena have collaborated with over 30 global artists for new music infused with sounds of nature as part of ‘Sounds Right’ campaign.
According to an official statement, the new tracks feature an eclectic mix of artists, with Armaan Malik and Raveena fronting a stellar lineup that includes Grammy winners and rising stars across multiple genres. French composer Yann Tiersen, electronic powerhouse Steve Angello (Swedish House Mafia) and Seattle indie-rocker SYML are some of the key contributors, along with Rozzi, George The Poet, Rosa Walton, Penguin Café, Madame Gandhi, and Franc Moody, among others.
They represent countries like India, the UK, US, Japan, Colombia, Hong Kong, Denmark, and Argentina, spanning a diverse range of musical styles, from Indian pop and classical, to hip-hop and techno. The artists have taken an eccentric approach to incorporating nature into their work, using sounds recorded in forests, oceans, and urban green spaces.
Some tracks feature recordings from celebrated sound recordist Martyn Stewart and The Listening Planet. Others integrate the artists’ own environmental recordings. These make each piece a deeply personal tribute to the natural world.
Malik contributed to ‘What In The World’ feat. NATURE, a soaring anthem that blends pop with environmental urgency. This song, which captures the spirit of reflection and global reset, originally debuted at a Billboard Live At-Home performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Raveena sang ‘Morning Prayer’ (feat. NATURE), a meditative track that weaves together nature, healing, and ancestral memory. Known for her ethereal vocals and genre-blending sound, Raveena draws from her Sikh Punjabi roots and deep spiritual connection with the Earth. She shared that she wrote ‘Morning Prayer’ with Jenn. “We were on a trip together deep in the forest and I was doing my morning meditation for 30 minutes in the rain outside. Jenn said that at the peak of my meditation, there was this moment where the light was pouring in through the rain drops and she was so inspired that she took a voice recording of the rainfall and some photographs of me meditating.”
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Raveena added: “She sent me an instrumental she made with the nature recordings from our vacation day, two weeks later. I was so inspired and wrote “Morning Prayer” song on the spot, recalling a photographic memory of the earlier experience.” She believes this song truly felt like the perfect song for NATURE’s Earth Day series.
The track fuses ambient textures, instrumentation, and the serene sounds of the natural world to evoke reflection, stillness, and joy. Raveena will spotlight the track alongside songs from her latest album ‘Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain’ during her multi-city US tour, which runs from Apr. 30 through June.10, 2025.
Gabriel Smales, Global Programme Director for Sounds Right at UN Live, said they asked a question - what if nature could speak - and be credited - through music? “A year later, the answer is clear. Millions are listening, and directing real funding to communities protecting the planet’s most vital ecosystems.”
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