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Meet the ghazal nawaz who enthralled the audience with his rendition of Kaifi Azmi's songs
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PHOTO: MOHAMMED YOUSUF
DIFFERENT BEAT Jaswinder Singh is the young maestro to watch out for
Apart from the doyens who took centre stage for the recent staging Kaifi aur Main, a young ghazal singer from Mumbai received applauds as he did justice to the poetry of Kaifi Azmi, as he sang a poignant song from Heer Ranjha and the chart buster Tum itna kyun muskura rahe ho from Arth. "I have earlier been associated with Ghalib Nama, a similar show on Mirza Ghalib and Shishon ka Masiha on Faiz Ahmed Faiz. We are planning to take Kaifi aur Main across the world," Jaswinder Singh.
More about himself, "I represent the younger generation of ghazal singers. I am the only sardar who is not singing Punjabi pop. I have struggled a lot trying to be different and believe me its not easy," he says. His inspirations include Begum Akhtar and Mehdi Hassan. "I learnt music from Susheela Pohankar. My first guru is my father Kuldip Singh, also the managing director of the show," he reflects.
Albums he has released till date are Yours Truly, Dilkash and Arsh with a fourth cover slated for later this year. But does ghazal still have an audience amongst GenX hooked on to Hip Hop and remix covers? "This is a phase. First there was Punjabi pop, then remix and Sufi. We recently had the staging of Kaifi ... in Ludhiana, which is a Punjabi pop capital. There were 1200 people sitting in an auditorium, which had a capacity of 800, in the corridor all through the show. There is a huge audience for good plays and ghazals. You just need to support them."
"Ghazal is not being promoted well unlike hip-hop and pop. Remix is fast money but ghazal is like old wine. Jitna peetay aste aste nasha chadhta hai (you get intoxicated with more you drink)," he says. Cheers to the spirit. Keep watching this space as we bring you more on the artiste.
S.F.
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