Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: As the Konkani monsoon recedes and the paddy in the fields turns golden for harvest, our unique Konkani Lyrics Contest 2024 yielded a bumper harvest of 111 new songs in Konkani! Thanks to our amazing participants, the Konkani singing competitions hereafter will never be the same again!!
Aimed at promoting excellence in Konkani Lyrics using Global Hit songs as the musical basis, our contest got an excellent response with 54 Konkani participants across 6 countries actually crafting 134 Konkani Lyrics for 111 Distinct Global Hits from 20 different languages in music genres of Pop, Country, Rock, EDM, Reggae, Bollywood etc. Now some Global Hits even have more than 1 Konkani Lyric:
My Heart Will Go On (5)
Ai Se Eu Te Pego (4)
Summer Of ’69 (4)
500 Miles (3)
Allegro Ventigo (3)
Aikon Baikon (2)
Top Of The World (2)
Shalala Lala (2)
Where Do I Begin – Love Story (2)
Kahin Door Jab Din Dhal Jaye (2)
Tum Ko Dekha Toh Ye Khayal Aaya (2)
Help Me Make It Through The Night (2)
Hero (2)
Live Is Life (2)
The Global Hits from 20 Source Languages (ie. Arabic, Assamese, English, Filipino, French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Spanish, Uzbek) had the highest entries for English (75) followed by Hindi (27).
While Devanagari and Romi were the official scripts for our contest we received 7 Konkani Lyrics also in Kannada-script from an enthusiastic, senior participant based in Mangalore, Karnataka!
With the Stage 1 (Entry Submission) completed, now the contest is in Stage 2 (Shortlist & Public Scrutiny) wherein the “Public Scrutiny” part, aimed at checking for any potential “Copyright violations,” has been supplemented with “Appreciation & Celebration” for which each of the 134 submitted Konkani Lyrics have been published on social media in our specially designed posters since the effort and love for Konkani that our enthusiastic participants have put into their Konkani Lyrics rightly deserves it! The “Shortlist”, based on compliance of entries with the contest rules, has been done and notified to the affected participants. As a result, 117 of the 134 entries are now headed into Stage 3 (Final Evaluation) with the participants presently recording and submitting “Lyrics Demo Audio” to demonstrate their intended “Meter, Timing and Pronunciation Style” for each of their shortlisted entries. Stage 3, being the most detailed evaluation, is expected to last the entire month of October during which multiple qualitative evaluation rounds will filter the entries down to the Top20 using parameters such as Meter, Timing, Rhyme, Ease of Singing & Catchiness, Konkani Diversity (ie. more dialects used = more points!), Konkani Innovation (ie. creating new words/sounds in Konkani, Konkanizingwords from other languages) etc. as explained on our website (https://www.vangdda.org/participation-instructions). These Top20 entries will then go for “Public Voting” to decide the Top10 winners!
Prizes for the contest have been significantly enhanced to encourage greater interest, collaboration among participants and pursuit of excellence in Konkani Lyrics:
Prize Money budget has been increased from₹1 Lac to ₹1.4 Lac with 40% assured Cash Prizes for the Top10 (earlier Top3) entries besides Certificates and Trophies. Remaining 60% Cash Prize is linked to the score of each Top10 entry and will be awarded on prorated basis only to those that score 600 or more points out of the total 1000 points with 900+ point scores getting the full amount. This has been specially done to reward and promote excellence in Konkani Lyrics.
