who sang vande mataram for the first time
Vande Mataram It played a vital role in the Indian independence movement, first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.[9] It became a popular marching song for political activism and Indian freedom movement in 1905.[1] Spiritual Indian nationalist and philosopher Sri Aurobindo referred it as "National Anthem of Bengal".[10] The song and the novel containing it was banned by the British government, but workers and general public defied the ban, many went to colonial prisons repeatedly for singing it, and the ban was overturned by the Indians after they gained independence from the colonial rule.[11][12]
Grace VanderWaal On the June 7, 2016, broadcast during the eleventh season of NBC's AGT, VanderWaal auditioned with her original song, "I Don't Know My Name", and was Howie Mandel's "golden buzzer" act.[14][18] Simon Cowell called VanderWaal "the next Taylor Swift."[19] Brittany Spanos in Rolling Stone magazine termed the song an "emotional, catchy, quirky tune".[20] VanderWaal continued to perform only original songs on the show, including her next performance at the quarterfinals on August 23, 2016, titled "Beautiful Thing", a song written for her sister; USA Today characterized VanderWaal's voice as "endearingly croaky".[21] Others have called it "raspy"[22] and "timelessly soulful".[23] For the semifinals on August 30, she performed "Light the Sky",[14] and for the September 13 finals, she sang "Clay", a song about dealing with bullies.[24] Lindsay Peoples wrote for New York Magazine: "The songs she wrote and performed on AGT were not only catchy but emotional and unique to her own sound, a mix of raw and folk".[25] AGT's video of VanderWaal's audition has accumulated more than 70 million views.[26] It was ranked as the No. 5 trending YouTube video of 2016.[27]