Posted in Amazing Musicians, Epik High, Indian Music, Korean Music, Lee Seung Yeol, Lyrics, Music!, Rabbi Shergill, Rahman, Shantanu Moitra, Vishal-Shekhar, tagged a.r. rahman, alex, amit trivedi, avengi ja nahin, ballo, ek meetha marz de, gourmet, hawa sun hawa, Lee Seung Yeol, mohit chauhan, my vintage romance, Rabbi Shergill, Rahman, Shantanu Moitra, shreya ghosal, sonu nigam, vishal dadlani, Who Are You, yi sung yol, yuvvraaj on January 5, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Happy New Year y’all!
Wow…another year takes its bow and leaves. Good riddance, I say. Though on a personal level this year has been a mixture of both good and bad, it definitely hasn’t been a good one for the world in general. I’m looking forward to a new year that will hopefully bring it with [...]
Posted in Amazing Musicians, Artist Talk, Indian Music, Living Female, Music!, Rabbi Shergill, The Universality of Music, tagged avengi ja nahin, ballo, challa, rabbi, Rabbi Shergill on October 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was happy to read this news piece, confirming my own thoughts on his songs, in his own words. Rabbi is indeed a female sympathetic song writer, and chooses to write about the crucial topics facing India right now: female foeticide and the rights of the girl child. His beautiful songs speak out to me, [...]
Posted in Amazing Musicians, Artist Talk, Lessons from Strange Sources, Living Female, Lyrics, Music!, Rabbi Shergill, Song Translations, The Universality of Music, tagged avengi ja nahin, ballo, paghri sambhal jatta, rabbi, Rabbi Shergill, tu avin bandra on August 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Lyrically, Avengi Ja Nahin has several songs that seem singularly female-sympathetic, an attitude that is refreshing in a young male singer, and important in our generation. While the first album had songs that chose a woman as their heroine, like the girl wandering around the country searching for answers and finding more questions in Jugni, [...]
Posted in Amazing Musicians, Artist Talk, Music!, Rabbi Shergill, The Universality of Music, tagged avengi ja nahin, rabbi, Rabbi Shergill on August 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Avengi Ja Nahin, Rabbi Shergill
I’m a little late catching up to Rabbi’s latest work, unfortunately, though he has been on my list of favorite singers ever since Jugni, Tere Bin and Ishtihaar reached my ears and their words (translated lyrics, because Rabbi usually sings in pure Punjabi) reached my mind. I caught a video of [...]
Posted in Amazing Musicians, And then I wonder, Artist Talk, I Love the IdiotBox, Indian Music, Lyrics, Rabbi Shergill, Random Musings, The Universality of Music on May 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So I am sufficiently satisfied with my PS right now (emphasis on sufficiently, I could never, ever be completely satisfied in a billion years), to take it a little easy on myself (emphasis on little, the 31st is too close). Easy as in I thought I’d hover on to my blog and write something nice [...]
