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Their work may take them to many places around the world, but there’s only one country they call home.<\/p>\n
The stewards and stewardesses of Singapore Airlines (SIA) have put together a performance for all Singaporeans in a video shared on SIA’s Instagram page on Friday (Aug 9) \u2014 our country’s 61st birthday.<\/p>\n
The video begins with a flight steward, Kelvin, playing a violin, while stewardess Lei Hoi plays a guzheng.<\/p>\n
Leading steward Jasper, dressed in a short-sleeved batik<\/em> shirt, then eases into the first song of the performance: Semoga Bahagia, composed by Zubir Said.<\/p>\n Zubir Said also composed Singapore’s national anthem, Majulah Singapura.<\/p>\n The music then shifts into a familiar, upbeat tune, as stewardesses Michelle and Michele, as well as chief stewardess Natasha, dance to the beat of Munnaeru Vaalibaa.<\/p>\n Fauzaan, also a leading steward, takes the Tamil song in stride with a powerful voice, singing with energy while donning a songkok <\/em>and long-sleeved batik<\/em> shirt.<\/p>\n Following his performance, stewardess Aura, dressed in a nyonya kebaya<\/em>, takes charge as she begins singing “Xiao Ren Wu De Xin Sheng”, also known as “The Voice of the Ordinary People” (transliteration), a famous Xinyao classic.<\/p>\n Flight stewardess Catherine \u2014 also dressed in a nyonya kebaya<\/em> \u2014 joins in, continuing the song as Aura ends her segment of the performance.<\/p>\n All singers who participated thus far then jump straight into the chorus of Singapura, Sunny Island, another well-known National Day song, as their performance reaches a climax.<\/p>\n The group then returns to the song that they began with, Semoga Bahagia, this time dressed in SIA’s iconic batik sarong kebaya <\/em>for the ladies and formal wear for men.<\/p>\n Singaporeans around the world can then be seen in short video snippets, sharing their well-wishes for Singapore on the nation’s birthday as the video ends.<\/p>\n “Happy 61st birthday, Singapore,” SIA wrote in their Instagram post.<\/p>\n “Four languages. One heart. Performed by Singapore Airlines Cabin Crew, this is our tribute to the island we proudly call home.<\/p>\n “To every Singaporean, at home or around the world, we hope this performance fills you with the same love and pride we feel for Singapore.”<\/p>\n [[nid:742229]]<\/p>\n khooyihang@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Their work may take them to many places around the world, but there’s only one country they call home. The stewards and stewardesses of Singapore…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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