The record came about when musician Junelle Kunin, a student of the Dalai Lama from New Zealand, contacted him in 2015 with the idea - and much to her surprise he said yes. "I thought I'd have to try and convince him," she told Reuters in an interview from her home in Auckland. It's immense," Abraham Kunin said. On a promotional video for the album, when asked why he had agreed to take part, the Dalai Lama answers: "The very purpose of my life is to serve as much as I can." The release comes five years after Patti Smith led the crowd at Britain's Glastonbury Festival singing Happy Birthday to him for his 80th.

Source: bd News24 July 06, 2020 03:22 UTC