Ankur Desai

But here in the east of Switzerland, until today, it's more a man tradition.

But yodelling is just like a natural singing that really comes directly from the heart.

And it can connect so many people together because you can sing together if you don't really know what you're singing and you don't have to read notes.

You can like go with your ear and hear what the others do and you can just connect.

So I think yodeling is a really good thing to bring people together.

I think it should be living from all the people who live here and not only old men or whatever.

Can you tell me a bit about how you changed the lyrics to make it more modern and to make it more applicable for women?

Yeah, so sometimes they're a bit, you can see them critical, the lyrics.

We really try to pick lyrics and songs that we agree with the text.

So I don't like to change things that are composed like this, but if it's important to do so, sometimes we change lyrics.

But I think as long as we really respect the tradition, also the other people will respect what we do.

When you have young women that come and join your choir and they get into yodeling and they join in with the group, what kind of things do they say to you about how they feel?

Everyone who came into our choir was so... I couldn't imagine before what it could be in this choir, but now they were so happy because they found out that there is a new style of singing and such a style that brings people together because they didn't know that it's so nice to be in a yodel choir before.

I just want as many people as possible to go into this yodeling and...

that they also feel what it can do with them when we just can connect through singing.

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