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£1.50 FEB 2010
Issue 23Your no1 Bhangra Magazine
bhangra Vibes
CHANCE TO SEE
H DHAMIPERSONALY
MISS POOJA
DJ SANJVS
H DHAMI
SECRETS REVEALED
BALLY SAGOOIs it true his marraige
is over?
ROACH KILLANew Album ‘Gun Dem’
H DHAMIPerforms live
TOP 10 CHARTSWhos at No1?
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Miss Pooja InterviewRecently DJ CKG caught up with Miss Pooja AKA ‘The Bhangra Queen’, who is well known for her unique Punjabi songs across the world.She has sung over 1500 songs and released over 200 albums in February alone! She has been described as the driving force and inspiration of Punjabi music.
For those, who don’t know much about you give us a quick rundown of your Punjabi singing, where you from? And how long you been in the music industry?
I have being singing since I was 8 years old. After earning a mas-ters in music, I took the Bhangra scene in India by surprise with my powerful sweet Punjabi vocals. I later began recording duets with a number of artists based in Eng-land. Once I had established on the Indian scene, I took my career to the biggest names in the industry. But 2000 is truly my year as i have helped release a solo album and have taken on a more hip and fresh look.
So who have you collaborated with so far?
I collaborated with many well known artists like Manak E, Jay Sean, Malkit Singh and many more. I enjoyed working with Mal-kit Singh in particular as you may know he was awarded by the
queen an award for outstanding performance to the Asian community and working with him helped me get my name out there.
Punjabi singing is something that you are well known for, but you are certainly the most successful to have perfected this. What’s the reaction been like from the mainstream in India?
People like it and appreciate my ef-forts. My music’s been played for mainstream, artists, underground artists, and they have showed me nothing but love.
You certainly have a large Punjabi vocabulary, maybe more so than a whole lot of your listeners. Was there ever the worry that a lot of your fans would not be able to un-derstand many of your lyrics?
I’ve thought about that, but this is what I do naturally. It’s something that’s very personal to me and peo-ple should understand as its pure Punjabi.
Do you also sing in English?
No. My songs have a lot of English in them; hooks, chants, verses, but they’re all from other who’re col-laborating with me.
You’ve released alot of albums this year what motivates you to do this?
I enjoy singing and guess I like new challenges and to be honest. Money is a real motivation.
When is your new album go-ing to be released? And tell us about it.
My new album ‘Back to Punjab’ is releasing later this month it is basi-cally what the title says, its about my village in India and has tradi-tional folk music combined with modern beats. I wanted to keep the traditional beats and modernise them. It’s going to be a good album. It features top Asian artist around the world including RDB, Jay Sean and Manak E and is not to be missed.
What do you plan do doing in the future?
I plan on making more albums in a whole new style and I probably do this until I die, this is my future I am living.
So whats your message to your fans out there?
Im coming with a whole new al-bum be prepared to be amased this is going to be too good.
EXCLUSIVE
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The Queen of Bhangra’s New Album
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Miss Pooja Interview
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The Queen of Bhangra’s New Album
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“My new album ‘Back to Punjab’ is releasing later this month”
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H Dhami
Bally Sagoo
DJ Sanj
Roach Killa
Malkit Singh
H Dhami
Miss Pooja
RDB
Competion to see him in person
Live preformance in your area
New album ‘Daru’ review
New ‘Gun Dem’ Album Out Now
My Life - Mr Singh discusses his career
Returns with New Exlcusive Tracks
Exclusive Interview
17 Latest News & Gossip
66 New Gigs / Roadshows
81 Upcoming Events
New Music Videos
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