RDB Nominated for two Urban Music Awards
October 22, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
RDB are up for the Best UK Asian Act and Best Band competing against other talented and chart topping bands like The Noisettes, N Dubz and JLS. RDB have been making and producing music over a decade fusing Bhangra, Garage music and most recently working with the world’s largest film industry ‘Bollywood’.
RDB were the first [...]
‘Wonderfully warm’ Grewals star in TV series
October 20, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
A Sikh family from Horton near Windsor, Berkshire, is set to become the best-known Asian family in Britain.
The Grewals were chosen for the second series of Channel 4 TV’s reality show The Family, which launches on Wednesday November 4.
Round the clock filming of the fly-on-the-wall series covered a period of eight weeks and involved the [...]
The Worlds Biggest Bhangra Group
August 16, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
Saturday 12th September 2009, In Birmingham UK at Artsfest (Europes Largest Free Arts Festival) in Centenery Square, all of the UK’s finest and most established Bhangra Dance Groups will be performing together with you in the aim to set and break a new Guinness World Records of over 1000 people dancing the same routine at [...]
Mann Ents Present 'Summer Mela 2009'
August 3, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
Mann Ents invite you to a cultural experience for all the family at Woodville Halls, the finest venue in Kent. Featuring live performances by Angrej Ali, whose hits include Dharti Hildi and Phattey Chak and Dippa Satrang, whose evergereen hit Dhola ve Dhola still gets the crowds going.
Featuring:
ANGREJ ALI (Dharti Hildi, Phattey Chak)
DIPPA SATRANG (Dancefloor, [...]
A top-notch tragicomedy of our times
July 25, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
Son of a poor Sikh family in Britain’s industrial midlands, Sathnam Sanghera has risen through talent and scholastic endeavour – from assisted place grammar school pupil to Cambridge graduate – to achieve feature writer status on the The Times newspaper.
It is a prestigious position which has probably brought his remarkable book – If You Don’t [...]
Bollywood is ‘escapist dross’ says Times writer
July 24, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
Many millions of people around the globe watch them at the cinema or on dvd – and appear to enjoy them – but are Bollywood films really “vacuous escapist dross for the masses”?
That’s the view of Sathnam Sanghera, a feature writer with The Times newspaper in Britain, who is developing a reputation for expressing unconventional [...]
Brit Asia Super Star
July 13, 2009 by SimplyBhangra.com · Leave a Comment
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THE SEARCH BEGINS FOR THE NEXT
BRITISH ASIAN SINGING SENSATION
BRIT ASIA SUPER STAR
Have you got what it takes?
A nationwide search has been launched to find the next big British Asian singing sensation. Brit Asia Super Star is the first ever British Asian singing contest that will aim to uncover and nurture fresh talent. [...]
Jaskirt’s musicians challenge stereotypes
April 1, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
Up and coming performers on the vibrant British Asian music scene are being showcased on the website of a rising young Birmingham photographer.
Jaskirt Dhaliwal features the singers and musicians on a site that also shows an impressive range of portraiture from sport and the Bearwood community in which she lives.
It includes a series of shots [...]
Bedi banks on Sikh mantra career boost
February 27, 2009 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
Monica Bedi, former Bollywood actress who became more famous for her dramatic personal life than for her performances on screen, is hoping that providing vocals on a Sikh religious album will give momentum to her planned show business comeback.
The Sikh actress featured in nearly a dozen films in the nineties but her career nose-dived in [...]
NRI recognition for legendary Bhangra singer
December 17, 2008 by Sikhs Online · Leave a Comment
Malkit Singh, the Punjabi pop singer who received an MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) award in January 2008, ended the year with a further accolade to add to his ever-widening collection.
This time his contribution to popularising traditional Bhangra music on the international stage won him an Excellence Award from the NRI (Non-Resident [...]












