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Monday, July 21, 2025

SISTER ACT, Katelin & Kaylee spread joy

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1901 days ago
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For Moth­er's Day Sun­day, Katelin and Kaylee Sul­tan are plan­ning a sur­prise on Face­book for their mom, Ker­ryann, on her spe­cial day and al­so their fans on so­cial me­dia.

The adorable sis­ters Katelin, six, sang and Kaylee, four, danced their way in­to the hearts of ne­ti­zens dur­ing the COVID-19 lock­down. They are be­com­ing Face­book dar­lings since they were pro­pelled in­to the In­ter­net spot­light with their vi­ral video ren­di­tion of the med­ley song Mu­jhse Dosti Karoge by the singers Sonu Nigam, Udit Nar­ine and Al­ka Yag­nik, from the ro­man­tic dra­ma movie of the same name.

So far the star­lets' ini­tial video on Face­book has gar­nered 81,000 views, 2,000 likes/loves and laughs com­bined and was shared 2,500 times.

Katelin's an­i­mat­ed singing and Kaylee's com­i­cal fa­cial ex­pres­sions, pirou­ettes and hand move­ments have cap­ti­vat­ed on­line au­di­ences with their in­no­cence, spon­tane­ity and kawaii (cute­ness) that are in­fec­tious. The girls can switch from clas­si­cal In­di­an, Bol­ly­wood movie and chut­ney mu­sic to so­ca from artistes like Na­dia Bat­son, Patrice Roberts, Farmer Nap­py, Kes and Machel Mon­tano.

In an­oth­er touch­ing video when the fam­i­ly sat down to have a snack, the girls said prayers from three dif­fer­ent faiths; Mus­lim, Hin­du, and Chris­t­ian.

Their par­ents, Ker­ryann and Nee­shad Sul­tan en­sure that their chil­dren do their home school­work be­fore they can play and al­so teach them so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, love and com­pas­sion in ac­tion, car­ry­ing them along when they de­liv­er food ham­pers and care pack­ages to the needy.

The kids al­so do­nat­ed some of their toys and pig­gy bank mon­ey to the dis­ad­van­taged chil­dren and played with them in their com­mu­ni­ty.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia on Wednes­day from the fam­i­ly home in Cunu­pia, Katelin said "I'm do­ing home­work com­pre­hen­sion. When mum­my puts up the boun­cy cas­tle we can play af­ter when we fin­ish study­ing.

"My favourite sub­jects are phon­ics and read­ing, I miss school and my friends. I want to be a doc­tor and singer when I grow up.

"My favourite song is Maine Pay­al. When I was in New York at a show last year, Mr Ra­ma who is blind was in the au­di­ence gave me US$1,000 and told my mom that mon­ey was to go to­wards my singing.

"My role mod­els are Na­dia Madoo, I grew up watch­ing her sing Bol­ly­wood film songs and I like Re­hana Gopaul."

She said she liked to play with their doll house, rid­ing Spir­it the toy horse, snakes and lad­ders, lu­do, dress up with make-up, loved watch­ing Youtube In­di­an, chut­ney and so­ca mu­sic, boat bed and en­joyed read­ing and sleep­ing in.

Kaylee was do­ing writ­ing com­pre­hen­sion from a black­board when Guardian Me­dia called.

She had a se­ri­ous mes­sage for me: "Don't go out­side, coro­na is spread­ing every day and sani­tise and wash your hands."

Kaylee wants to be a danc­ing doc­tor and give in­jec­tions. She likes to lis­ten to mu­sic and dance more than play­ing with toys.

Kaylee said she plays with their di­nosaurs, en­joys bas­ket­ball, ring toss, cater­pil­lar tun­nel, hide and seek, paint­ing, cook­ing in the play kitchen and play­dough fish­ing.

She said dur­ing the lock­down she miss­es her ma­ter­nal grand­fa­ther Dex­ter Box­ill, ma­ter­nal grand­moth­er, San­dra At­tamdeo, mum­mum (babysit­ter) Loli­ta See­ta­hall, mamoo Ri­ad Sul­tan and pa­ter­nal grand­fa­ther Ra­hamut Sul­tan.

Ker­ryann said her chil­dren were born and grew up in a mu­sic-ori­ent­ed fam­i­ly; their fa­ther is the front-line singer for the T&TEC Gay­a­tones, lead front-line vo­cal­ist for RG the Band and sings with many pop­u­lar lo­cal bands. He has al­so been singing since he was very young.

She said the chil­dren had got­ten so much love from peo­ple all over the world, they made a lot of peo­ple hap­py dur­ing the COVID-19 lock­down.

Ker­ryann said she was so proud of the girls for bring­ing joy, smiles, and hope to oth­ers and noth­ing made her hap­pi­er.

She said peo­ple al­so reached out to her for ad­vice on mak­ing learn­ing fun and she was very hap­py to help. She said her on­ly in­tent was to help oth­ers even if it was to make some­one laugh.

Ker­ryann said they al­so helped some fam­i­lies that were in need; the kids, her hus­band and her made gro­ceries spend­ing over $1,000 on each fam­i­ly. They took ham­pers to the homes of peo­ple that had small chil­dren and ba­bies who had noth­ing to eat or drink.

She said her kids, who un­der­stood what they were do­ing, took toys for the chil­dren and played with them, show­ing love and com­pas­sion.

Ker­ryann said her daugh­ters can lift any­body's spir­it and they make her laugh all day.

She said she didn't have to share the videos, but did it to put a smile on some faces dur­ing this pan­dem­ic. Ker­ryann is proud of her daugh­ters. She said they are do­ing well in their school work, and they are very brave, sweet, lov­ing, and kind.


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