Rabbi Shergill (born 1975) is an Indian musician famous for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005, Bulla Ki Jaana. His music has been described variously as rock, Sufiana, and "semi-Sufi semi-folksy kind of music with a lot of Western arrangements."Rabbi himself has been called "Punjabi music's true urban balladeer".
A graduate from Delhi's Khalsa College, Rabbi was a part of the local hard-rock music scene in his graduation days. Inspired by Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Jimmy Page, Rabbi started writing his own songs and made a few demos. Rabbi Shergill (born 1975) is an Indian musician famous for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005, Bulla Ki Jana. His music has been described variously as rock, Sufiana, and "semi-Sufi semi-folksy kind of music with a lot of Western arrangements. "Rabbi's father was a Sikh preacher and his mother is a college principal and also a Punjabi poetess.
Rabbi has since worked as a music director and lyricist for the Hindi movie, Delhii Heights. He has also performed at the World Social Forum in Brazil, played at the inauguration of the Tri-Continental Film Festival in New Delhi and various other Live Shows.
Rabbi's music has been inspired by Rock,Hard Rock as well as Sufi and Punjabi folk music.His songs are deeply philosophical and blends archaic, almost lost, Punjabi phrases into far more recent Indian rock music with great ease.
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