Rabbi Shergill is one of a kind, says Sufi singer and scholar Madan Gopal Singh
For Punjabi music and more importantly contemporary Indian music, eminent Sufi scholar, singer, filmmaker and a university professor Madan Gopal Singh feels Rabbi Shergill is nothing less than a blessing.
“His music is a breakthrough at Pan-Indian and global levels something that not many people have been able to do in contemporary music scene in our country. The Naxalite movement in Punjab gave birth to superb protest music in the region but again it didn’t go out of the state. I was singing Sufi music, doing concerts with Sahmat taking it all over the country but it was all very localised. One could never become the Pan-Indian phenomenon,” feels Singh who has closely watched Rabbi’s growth as an artiste.
To read the full article in The Hindu:
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/11/08/stories/2008110852010800.htm
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/11/08/stories/2008110852020800.htm
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