Dya Singh World Music Group are the best example of contemporary multicultural music for TV program "MISTAKEN IDENTITY" which celebrates "cultural diversity in America and worldwide."

The phenomenal impact of the major music in "MISTAKEN IDENTITY: Sikhs in America" is attributed to the highly acclaimed Dya Singh World Music Group, to whom the filmmakers are most grateful for the generosity of Dya Singhji to permit the use of his recordings. Working with most of the top selling musical CDs, Phillip Marshall, 4-times Emmy Award Winning Editor and Host Amanda Gesine felt "...it was like a global musical voyage with Dya Singh as the spiritual singer represents a true example of multiculturalism". Producer & Director Vinanti Sarkar stated: "Dya Singhji blends Punjabi spirituality with modern and contemporary trends to awaken the soul of the listener, especially the young and restless to appreciate Gurbani sangeet. "

With his three highly gifted daughters, Gurbani is the central theme as they sing shabads (with English translations) and offer entrancing meanings to popular and semi-classical tunes (bandash) played by the musicians. The musicians firmly believe that "Gurbani kirtan should enhance the spiritual message of Gurbani and induce a mood of meditation and spiritual equipoise (sehaj anand)."

Today, Dya Singh World Music Group is successfully taking the message of Guru Nanak to the first-second-and third generation Sikhs and the multicultural music lovers all over the world, amazing music experts and critics alike.

With Dya Singh seated center stage, the highly talented orchestra: Dheeraj Shresta, a classical tabichi from Nepal with the beat of various drum instruments (table, Mardang, dhois, drums, etc), the versatile player of instruments, Keith Preston with his Greek bouzouki (related to the ancient Sikh rabaab or rebeck), electric guitar, santoor and bohdran, and Andrew Clermont, specialized in violin and the Australian didgeridoo (a sacred deep sounding Australian Aboriginal wind instrument) perform worldwide. The Group has special permission from the elders of the Aborigines to play this forty thousand years old instrument in their spiritual music.

For one man to single-handedly take the traditional Sikh spiritual music of his ancestral Punjab and mold the sound for the world music stage has been a unique challenge. Collaborating with some of the leading musicians in Australia, his choice of musical instruments reached out to maintaining his deep desire of Sikh traditional indigenous music at the roots, and then sensitively fusing it with music from other parts of the world.

Twice awarded "instrumentalist of the year" by SAMIA (South Australian Music Industry awards, Dya Singh and his group travel widely throughout the world - highly acclaimed by both Sikh and alternative mainstream audiences. Formed in 1992, Dya Singh's "World Music Group" has emerged as one of the most sought after music groups in Australia, Southeast Asia and western countries like USA, Canada and Japan. Press write ups the impact and range of Dya Singh's music:

InFOLKus Magazine, Barbara Roberts: "Dya Singh's incredible voice amazed me, at times quietly sensitive, at others ... overwhelming powerful, and always with the purest melody."

"In the space of two hours, Dya Singh's material ranged from incantations to ... Sikh hymns, ragas and Asian classical music. The talent of the performers, the range of the music they played, the deep spirituality which infused their performance, all made this a memorable evening..." Sydney Morning Herald (Australia).


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