“Rise to Mars! Men and women. Dare to dream!' India-born opera singer Oscar Castellino sings the anthem he has written for Mars
An anthem for Mars. Mumbai, India-born opera singer Oscar Castellino is performing perhaps his best-known song "Rise to Mars".The 34-year-old former software engineer was commissioned by space advocacy group The Mars Society to write a fitting anthem for our neighbour in the solar system, working with the group's founder Robert Zubrin.
Mars is often associated with war in culture. Mars was the god of war in ancient Roman myth and religion. "I don't think 'La Marseillaise' is all that singable throughout it. I mean, you can remember a few bits of it. So, we wanted something that's singable. And I thought; 'Okay, something that's singable has very short phrases.' So, that is 'Rise to Mars,' easy, anybody can sing that," he says.
"So, to spread this message, I could probably send a documentary around, but another way is, and my medium is music. "It's going to be a whole gamut of skills and talents and interests that are going to get humans to Mars. Sure, the scientists and engineers will build the foundation, but we're also going to need plumbers. We're also going to need builders and construction workers and bricklayers. We're going to need also poets and artists and 3D designers, industrial designers," she says.
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