ByPuja Gupta

November 11, 2019 (IANSlife) Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Rabbi Shergill feels that the rising trend of remixing old, popular numbers underlines the fact that there’s “nothing being written” and the industry has a “crisis of text”. He, however, believes that the music industry still has plenty to give hope.

He believes that present scene of music in India is “quite colourful and varied". 

"There are many good lyricists out there which is the bedrock of pop music, if you ask me. Its cultural footprint is now larger than ever before", said the 46-year-old on the sidelines of his performance at DLF CyberHub, Gurugram celebrating its sixth anniversary.

The Hindi film music is now far too varied to be lumped together as a single entity, says Shergill, who debuted with the chartbuster song ‘Bullah Ki Jaana’.

But how would be define his music? He replies: “With the caveat that musicians shouldn’t be defining themselves, press should, perhaps my music is good ol’ rock music albeit in a Punjabi skin.”

On the reach of Punjabi folk music in India and abroad, he says that it may well have to do with the financial muscle of the Punjabi diaspora which arguably is stronger than ever before.

On work front, the singer says the audience will soon get hear him playbacking in Bollywood. He also has three videos lined up for release and a book in the works.

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Editing by Aditi Roy