Sukhbir

Sukhbir may refer to:

Sukhbir (musician)

Sukhbir Singh (born 9 November 1969) is a Bhangra singer. He is often referred to as the "Prince of Bhangra". His Bhangra music varied from fusion to pure Punjabi at times.

Early life

Sukbhir Singh was born in Punjab, India but moved with his family to Nairobi, Kenya, and was raised there. He spent 20 years in Nairobi. He began recording in 1991 and moved to Dubai in 1992, where has been based ever since.

Music

His first album. New Stylee, was recorded in Dubai and had many foreign influences. The album though, was nominated and won the 1996 Channel V Awards in three categories: Best Debut Album, Best Male Vocalist and Best Music Video (for "Punjabi Munde") This album was followed by another, Gal Ban Gayi, and then a third called Hai Energy.

His other album, Dil Kare, includes hits such as the title song and Nachle Soniye. The video to the song 'Girls Girls Girls' features various Indian beauties, such as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra and Celina Jaitley.

Sukhbir's Bhangra is a fusion of Bhangra with rap, techno and reggae. The juxtaposition of these musical styles is enhanced by Sukhbir’s use of original Bhangra instruments like the dhol and dholak. In Oi Triesto, his music was complemented by Spanish and Portuguese rhythms, while he also uses instruments like: tablas, congos, guitars and keyboards in his music.

Sukhbir (writer)

Sukhbir, (Punjabi: ਸੁਖਬੀਰ, Hindi: सुखबीर) (9 July 1925 – 22 February 2012), alias Balbir Singh is a Punjabi novelist, short-story writer, poet and an essayist. He was born on 9 July 1925 to S. Mansha Singh and Smt. Shiv Kaur in Mumbai, India. He was suffering from multiple complications after severe cardiac arrest and died on 22 February 2012.

Sukhbir has been writing and publishing for the last fifty years. He has authored 7 novels, 11 short story collections, 5 poetry collections among many translations of world literature, essays, letters and book reviews.

Personal life

Sukhbir alias Balbir Singh was the eldest of all his siblings, who included 3 brothers and 3 sisters. He adopted the pen name Sukhbir after partition, when he was arrested during the student unrest in Mumbai in 1950. He had already started publishing in literary magazines and was a known name as a budding writer. While he was in jail in Nasik, one of his editor friends in whose magazine his poems were to be published, changed the name to Sukhbir, to avoid authorities attention. Subsequently, Sukhbir chose to retain Sukhbir as his pen name, as many other writers with the name of Balbir Singh had sprung up by then and were cashing in on his established name.