Bikram Singh

Bikram Singh is an American bhangra music artist.

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Biography

Singh emigrated from Punjab, India, to Queens, New York when he was twelve years old. He quickly entered the local music scene, debuting his tracks at an open mic night in Greenwich Village. Singh began exploring the boundaries between Punjabi folk lyricism and Asian Underground electronica, and he teamed up with New York's DJ Navdeep to record the underground hit "Aa Gayee". Singh performed with Panjabi MC at Summerjam 2003, when he sang "Beware of the Boys" for a crowd of over 20,000. Since then, Singh has toured all over Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The 2004 mix-tape "Exclusives" [ [http://ethnotechno.com/bikram_exclusives.php Review of "Exclusives"] ] included a collaboration with Global Soul recording artist Shakti to produce "Do the Thang Thang," which played on New York radio stations Hot 97 and Power 105. Also on the album were the Tigerstyle-produced hits "Taakre" and "Nachna".

Singh's latest album, "American Jugni", has spent several weeks on the top of the BBC Asian Bhangra charts. Singh brought in two major Bhangra producers, Tigerstyle and Ravi Bal, to work on the album. In the year 2005, American Jugni was the best selling album in the UK and the track "Kawan", which featured vocal talents of Gunjan (a well established female hindi/punjsbi singer)was named by BBC radio as the track of the year.

In 2007, Singh linked up with producer and hip hop extraordinaire Wyclef to create a track on DJ Rekha’s (Basement Bhangra) upcoming Koch Records release. Rekha had actually asked Bikram a while back to do a track for the album and the vocals sat there over the years and nothing materialized for a while. But with the album release finalized, Rekha rekindled the record this year and asked him to re-do the vocals on the track in collaboration with Wyclef. And well, the rest is history! The ‘Basement Bhangra Anthem’ was finally born!

His new album "Tip Top" will be released on 15th July on VIP URBAN RECORDS. The album is a highly anticipated album along with two other major bhangra Artist releasing in the same time period (Tigerstyle and Jazzy B). The album is being primarily produced by the Scottish masterminds – Tigerstyle and welcomes the return of Gunjan who is also doing a song on the album. Other featured artists are Josh, who both produced and sang on the album, along with Kamfrantic.

References

External links

* [http://www.bikramsingh.com Official Site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/bikrams Official Myspace]
* [http://www.umusicindia.com/artistprofile.php?artistid=123 Universal Music India profile]