Harpreet is an independent musician from India. He composes his own songs and music and includes the writings of more contemporary poets. In a sense, Harpreet’s music is bridge, an offering to his generation, to walk the path to a deeper life, to perspectives that can be transformative. Harpreet has been composing poetry of Hindi and Punjabi, some known and some unknown poets, including Baba Bulleh Shah, Avatar Singh ‘Pash’, Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala to name a few. Recently he composed his first Urdu song, a poem by Faiz Ahmad Faiz- Bol ke lab Azaad hain tere.
His single called GHAH, a poem by revolutionary punjabi poet, Paash, from 1970s is getting a response from the audiences and critics. This trained vocalist and self taught guitarist, has been traveling to all over India with his songs and stories for last 7 years. In 2015, he was signed by Yash Raj Films for his song ‘Kutte’. It was the promotional song for their movie ‘Titli’, a Dibaker Banerjee production. He launched his debut album – AJAB ISHQ Maati da, in May’15, which is the only independent album which got 5 star on BBC music rating.
Harpreet, hailing from Kurukshetra, is trying to bring back the languages to the current generation in a more contemporary way. He has been a part of some of country’s most prestigious festivals like Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Jaipur Literature Festival, Taj Mahotsav, Music in the Hills, Friends of Music, Aquajam, BYOFF, Sonapani Music festival, Hindi Diwas- Aurobindo Society, Amarrass Desert festival, SAHMAT, Bikaner International Film Festival, Sangeet Natak Academy – Chandigarh, Gaiety Theatre – Shimla, Theatrefest Repertwahr- Lucknow and many more. In November 2015, he made his international debut at Esplanade, Singapore at Kalaa Utsavam 2015. Harpreet performs solo with his guitar and also as a trio, accompanied by Anirban Ghosh on bass and Nikhil Vasudevan on Drums.
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