Ricky Kej

Ram Gyan "Ricky" Kej is an Indian music composer, environmentalist, a three-time Grammy Award winner and a four-time Grammy nominee. Kej was conferred with a Padma Shri award India's fourth highest civilian award, in 2025 by the President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu for his contributions to the Arts. He has performed at venues including at the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva. In October 2023, Kej was announced as a UN Goodwill Ambassador at the United Nations General Assembly by then President, Csaba Körösi. He was also awarded the Lokmat Sur Jyotsna National Music Award 2025 for his contribution to Indian music. Kej is the Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest singing lesson, achieved through the recording of 13,944 tribal children performing the Indian National Anthem. The lesson is among the largest mass-participation musical education events involving indigenous children. Kej was also named a UNCCD Land Ambassador at the COP14 to raise public awareness about the challenges of land degradation, desertification and drought. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Kej) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)