Nepali Anthems
As Led Zeppelin’s song “Stairway To Heaven” has been referred as an anthem at times in the western countries, I would like to name some of the anthems though not in the literal meaning of Nepal.
The first anthem as far as I know was “Simsime Panima” sung by Prem Raja Mahat and Rekha Shah. This song used to be in everyone’s lips and every tourists could be seen dancing to this number. This song was all over here and there in Nepal.
The second was “Chekyo Chekyo” by the band called Nepathya. No song had rocked the nation completely like the one Chekyo Chekyo did. This song could be heard everywhere, from bus stations to restaurants, television to radios and the number of requests in fm stations for this song was huge. There were only three fm stations then and all those stations could not be left without playing this song once a day. This song dominated the music sector then.
The last I remember is “Wari Jamuna Paari Jamuna” sung by Khemraj Gurung. When this song was released, the music scene was totally dominated by pop genre. Pop genre included heavy metal, rock, rap and everything in our society at that time. This is a very traditional folk song of Nepal and still stood high in that time. Everywhere you go, you would hear this song. This song too dominated the musical scene in Nepal. As far as I see this song can be credited for rejuvenating the folk music here.
The first anthem as far as I know was “Simsime Panima” sung by Prem Raja Mahat and Rekha Shah. This song used to be in everyone’s lips and every tourists could be seen dancing to this number. This song was all over here and there in Nepal.
The second was “Chekyo Chekyo” by the band called Nepathya. No song had rocked the nation completely like the one Chekyo Chekyo did. This song could be heard everywhere, from bus stations to restaurants, television to radios and the number of requests in fm stations for this song was huge. There were only three fm stations then and all those stations could not be left without playing this song once a day. This song dominated the music sector then.
The last I remember is “Wari Jamuna Paari Jamuna” sung by Khemraj Gurung. When this song was released, the music scene was totally dominated by pop genre. Pop genre included heavy metal, rock, rap and everything in our society at that time. This is a very traditional folk song of Nepal and still stood high in that time. Everywhere you go, you would hear this song. This song too dominated the musical scene in Nepal. As far as I see this song can be credited for rejuvenating the folk music here.
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