Mohammed Rafi - Jan Pehechan: youtube.com/watch?v=aHA_S48KRrI&feature=related
I briefly went through, some years ago, an obsession with Bollywood music. It was very brief, I barely have anything to speak of regarding my love but perhaps an attraction to wonder-fueled dance in video.
I wasn't exposed to much music growing up that was outside the English pop sphere; to listen to music that didn't have English lyrics was ridiculous and shunned. It was foreign, both geographically and personally. I didn't, couldn't, get it.
I once heard one of my favorite artists talk about rap and hip-hop, how if anyone were to give its history there would invariably be talk of New York in the 80s, of many American artists and how the music has evolved from there, but never does one talk about rap from Japan, hip-hop being made in Scandinavia. These people, these places, outside the preconceived spheres are contributing to the history, why are they ignored?
And this is a good example of how rock and roll is and was made outside the US, Canada and England and is still better than most of what it draws from. I should relight my Bollywood rock obsession.
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