Full SPEED ahead for Subaig Singh

• Eastern Eye Staff
• 21 February, 2018

By: Eastern Eye Staff

BRITISH SINGER WANTS TO TAKE TRADITIONAL PUNJABI FOLK MUSIC TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE TWO unlikely pop legends from the west led Sub­aig Singh towards a Punjabi music career. The talented singer had gone from learning tabla and harmonium as a child to playing drums and per­forming with swing bands in secondary school, to discovering he had decent vocals with cover versions of Tom Jones and Elvis Presley classics in sixth form. It was later at university while finding himself as a singer that he found a deep connection with tradi­tional Punjabi folk artists and their music. That pas­sion remained and led…

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