Scary sounds from Punjabi

 

Andy Votel (Andrew Shallcross, 1975) is an English producer and musician who co-operates Finders Keepers Records, Pre-Cert Home Entertainment & Dead-Cert Home Entertainment.

Votel name derived from the acronym VOTEL for Violators Of The English Language, a hip-hop crew on the Manchester scene at the time of early releases on the Fat City and now defunct Grand Central imprints.

Andy Votel - Hindi Horrorcore

Wrapped in swallow whispers

 

Nahid Akhtar is a Pakistani playback singer. She is tagged as the "Nightingale of Pakistan". She was the top Lollywood playback singer during the second half of 70s and 80s. She won 3 Nigar Awards and a Pride of Performance in 2007.

Akhtar has recorded songs in a range of styles, including Pakistani film music, Pop, Ghazals, Traditional pakistani classical music, Punjabi folk songs, Qawwalis, Naat & Hamds & others.  

Nahid Akhtar was discovered by veteran musician. M. Ashraf as a teenage sensation in the mid 70s; inaugural released film was "Nanha Farishta" in 1974 and in the same year she climb to the top with super hit songs in film "Shama".

Her stylistic mastery and trade marked television appearances continued through the 1970s; increasingly, though, her attention was turned to the cinema. Films became the topmost priority to Nahid while television went down to the next level. Finally, in the mid 80s she left the film scene as a singer. 

Nahid Akhtar - Film Hits

Swallows invoking their gods

 

Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 Calcutta - 4 January 1994 Mumbai) was an Indian Bollywood film composer; only child of music director S. D. Burman. 

 

Active from the 1960s to the 1990s Burman composed music for over 330 films. Together with Asha Bhosle, his wife (from 1980) and Kishore Kumar they made many super hit songs, he also provided the vocals for some of these compositions. He also composed music for many songs that were sung by his sister-in-law, Lata Mangeshkar.

 

R.D. Burman - Hare Rama Hare Krishna

About a skin pride

 

Nahid Akhtar is a Pakistani playback singer. She is tagged as the "Nightingale of Pakistan". She was the top Lollywood playback singer during the second half of 70s and 80s. She won 3 Nigar Awards and a Pride of Performance in 2007.

Akhtar has recorded songs in a range of styles, including Pakistani film music, Pop, Ghazals, Traditional pakistani classical music, Punjabi folk songs, Qawwalis, Naat & Hamds & Others.  

Nahid Akhtar was discovered by veteran musician. M. Ashraf as a teenage sensation in the mid 70s; inaugural released film was "Nanha Farishta" in 1974 and in the same year she climb to the top with super hit songs in film "Shama".

Her stylistic mastery and trade marked television appearances continued through the 1970s; increasingly, though, her attention was turned to the cinema. Films became the topmost priority to Nahid while television went down to the next level. Finally, in the mid 80s she left the film scene as a singer. 

Nahid Akhtar - I Am Black Beauty

Spending adventures across the Indus

 

Sohail Rana is a Pakistani music composer for films and television. He was introduced by actor Waheed Murad in Pakistan film industry and gained popularity when singer Ahmed Rushdi sang his compositions in such films as Armaan and Doraha. He is now based in Canada.

 

Sohail Rana - Khyber Mail  

Deep places of devotion

 

Shankar–Jaikishan (also known as S-J), were an Indian composer duo of the Hindi film industry, working together from 1949 to 1971. They are widely considered to be the greatest ever music composers of the Hindi film industry. Later, Shankar continued to function as a music director alone, still giving music under the banner Shankar–Jaikishan, till 1987.

Shankar–Jaikishan, along with other artists, composed "everlasting" and "immortal melodies" in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. Their best work was noted for being "raga-based and having both lilt and sonority".

 

(Shankar Singh Ram Singh Raghuvanshi (15 October 1922 – 26 April 1987), Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal (4 November 1929 – 12 September 1971)).

 

Shankar-Jaikishan - Bombay Talkie

Swimming in the ballroom

 

Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 Calcutta - 4 January 1994 Mumbai) was an Indian Bollywood film composer,; only child of music director S. D. Burman. 

 

Active from the 1960s to the 1990s Burman composed music for over 330 films. Together with Asha Bhosle, his wife (from 1980) and Kishore Kumar they made many super hit songs, he also provided the vocals for some of these compositions. He also composed music for many songs that were sung by his sister-in-law, Lata Mangeshkar.

 

Rahul Dev Burman - Apna Desh

Intrigues in the ballroom

 

Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 Calcutta - 4 January 1994 Mumbai) was an Indian Bollywood film composer,; only child of music director S. D. Burman. 

 

Active from the 1960s to the 1990s Burman composed music for over 330 films. Together with Asha Bhosle, his wife (from 1980) and Kishore Kumar they made many super hit songs, he also provided the vocals for some of these compositions. He also composed music for many songs that were sung by his sister-in-law, Lata Mangeshkar.

 

Rahul Dev Burman - Shalimar

To shine the floor all night

 

Bappi Lahiri (27 November 1952, West Bengal, India - 15 February 2022) was a son of Aparesh Lahiri, a famous Bengali singer and Bansari, a musician and a singer who was well-versed in classical music. His parents trained him in every aspect of music. He began to play the tabla at the tender age of three. 

 

He was a music director in Bollywood and popularized the use of synthesized disco music in Indian cinema. Bappi Lahiri was the pioneer of disco beats in India and is widely recognized throughout India as the sole originator. He is widely known as the "Disco King" in India, even today.

He has been known to sing duets with Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar. He has also worked with renowned singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. 

 

Bappi Lahiri - Disco Dancer

The master who merges time

 

Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 – 26 March 1999) was an Indian sitarist and Bengali musician, best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. Son of Uday Shankar, nephew of Rajendra Shankar and Ravi Shankar, brother of Mamata Shankar, uncle of Ratul Shankar, and cousin of Shubho Shankar, Norah Jones, and Anoushka Shankar.

 

Ananda Shankar - Sitar Meets Moog