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Ankur Desai

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963 total appearances

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Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

I feel really lucky to have gone home to my beautiful family myself.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

And I feel so lucky to get to look at my best friend's beautiful family.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

And I think that's just the wonderful thing.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

If you can do that for someone or if you can do an act of kindness that, you know, really changes someone's life, then you should do it if you can.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Such a lovely, heartwarming story.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Daisy Hope and Georgia Barrington.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Now, the Alpine tradition of yodelling has long been dominated by men, whether as a centuries-old form of communication between herders, or more recently, a social activity with men gathering to belt out vocals from the hilltops with their friends.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Lyrics, when there were any, often portrayed an idyllic life in the mountains, surrounded by nature, with the men in charge and the women presented as naive girls, self-sacrificing mothers or nagging wives.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Fast forward to now and Gen Z feminists are taking on that tradition, forming choirs across Switzerland and yodelling their own way.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Anna KΓΆlberner is 26 and part of the JΓΌtz Youth Choir.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

She told Stephanie Prentice how and why she yodels in the modern way.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

It's a special technique of singing.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

It's not like classical or pop singing.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

You sing a bit different.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

So you have like your breast voice that sounds like... And you have like your head voice that is like a bit higher.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

And if you switch between these two voices, you get this really, really fine crack.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

You get like... And that's the thing that we call yodeling.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

So Anna, you're part of a youth choir with lots of women in it.

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

Why is yodelling so important to you, both as a performer but also as a feminist?

Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby

So there are some regions where there are more and more female voices who yodel.