Agnideva’s brother…
Krishna Kripa Das: While I was chanting Hare Krishna in the Fulton Street subway station yesterday, a man gave a donation but did not accept a book, saying he had them all. He asked if I knew Agnideva, and when I said I did, he said, “I am Agnideva’s brother.” He went on to share with me this video where he tells how Agnideva got to sing Hare Krishna on an album of Stevie Wonder, https://youtu.be/4hM6P27UvFg. He said Agnideva had sung in three recent New York Ratha-yatra. I said last time I saw him, he was leading kirtan in the Birmingham Ratha-yatra (https://youtu.be/DjJ2E1S6cIE). Many young people from the city were attracted and some them danced. This video of that got 150,000 views! (https://youtu.be/g8Ygmx7BzJ4) There was more local participation there than in any other city where I had attended Ratha-yatra.
Hansarupa Prabhu commented on this story, “It is a small world.”
Rama Raya Prabhu replied, “And in New York, it is even smaller.”
You can hear Agnideva Prabhu's Hare Krishna chant in the background of that Stevie Wonder song from 2:41 to 3:16 minutes at this link: https://youtu.be/b0S4SiLxt1s