Dya Singh Australia

World-renowned singer of the Sikh musical tradition, this Living Legend takes Sikh devotional music from the temple onto the world stage.

Dya Singh is the master musical interpreter of the traditional Sikh songs, the texts and more importantly also presenting this original material together with diverse influences from around the globe. Based in Australia, he is acknowledged as the most significant singer/musician in the world today of the Sikh mystical musical tradition, a form that originated in Punjab (now North India/Pakistan) but spread throughout the western World with the recent diaspora of Sikhs worldwide.

“Although not as renowned as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Dya Singh has what it takes to match the master.” — Aaron Gill, New Straits Times (Malaysia)

He has single-handedly brought Sikh traditional music to Western audiences as well as extending the boundaries of the musical tradition for the Sikh community. His high energy kirtan shabads (Sikh hymns), charismatic stage performance, superb voice and blend of global sounds in his music has established him as one of the world's most interesting singers/musicians. In Australia, and overseas the Dya Singh group performs at multifaith events, arts festivals, music festivals, folk festivals, new age events, multicultural events, community celebrations, sikh temples (gurudwaras) and the group tours internationally each year as guests of the Sikh communities worldwide as well as to key cultural/musical events.

The current Dya Singh group consists of Dya Singh on vocals and harmonium, the young Nepalese tabla virtuoso Dheeraj Shrestha, one or more of his daughters Harsel & Parvyn Kaur Singh on vocal support, “Irishman” and manager Keith Preston on 'santoor, bouzouki, and bohdran and multi award winning violinist, didgeridoo and guitarist Andrew Clermont. Quentin Eyers, who records the group's CDs often accompanies the group on tours with guitar, keyboards and mandolin.

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