Former video game designer Matt Harding became an Internet celebrity known as “Dancing Matt” for his viral videos showing him dancing at various international landmarks and street scenes. Known for a particular dance by his friends, Harding first uploaded a video of himself dancing in Vietnam to share with his friends and family. Since then, he has edited together scenes of himself dancing at over 160 locations, appeared in numerous TV shows, and featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Harding released his third dancing video on June 20, 2008. The video is the product of 14 months of traveling in 42 countries. The background music/song of this video is known as "Praan" composed by Garry Schyman and sung by Palbasha Siddique, with lyrics adapted from the poem "Stream of Life," a part of the Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore. His fourth dancing video, in which he is taught dances by dance troupes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, and other atypical tourist destinations, will be out in 2011.
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