Manjushree Oak has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for “the most languages sung in a concert”. The concert held on October 10, 2019, lasted for thirteen-and-a-half hours.
Pune-based vocalist Manjushree Oak has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for “the most languages sung in a concert”. Oak sang 121 songs in different Indian languages during a concert titled Amrutwani – Anekta Me Ekta, at the Yashwantrao Chavan Auditorium in Pune, Maharashtra, on October 10, 2019. The concert lasted for thirteen-and-a-half hours and Oak stood all the while and sang, fired up by the energy of the space and her challenge.
Manjushree Oak received a letter of confirmation about her feat last week. “I feel proud. My father and mother were strongly patriotic and of the belief that should serve the country in any way we can. This was an opportunity to showcase the glory of India to the whole world,” says Oak, who began learning singing with her father Vansant Oak as a child. After the initial steps taken with her father, Oak became a disciple of Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar.
The Guinness Book of World Records website has posted a notation about Oak’s accomplishment.She was “born and brought up with music” because her father was both a physicist and a singer. In 2016, he passed away. He and his buddies used to sing together until two in the morning when Oak was a child, recalls Oak, a postgraduate in Indian classical voice. Her native Marathi was the first language she learned songs in, then Hindi. She would hear the radio on Laxmi Road near her wada and begin to listen to music right away.