New face of Kannada folk music

Indian music has seen stalwarts in the form of Hindustani music dating back to 1000BC, carnatic, folks. Its fact that we are transforming the traditional musical era into X-gen music.

In the present generation people often talk about love, dating, friends, salsa, rock shows, western music etc... and shockingly if given a chance we discuss various issues on celebrities, fashion and of course terrorism. But if you step aside and give it a thought you will end up realizing, we still have our interests moulded in traditions.

You must be wondering why I am talking about all this. But the reason for this my dear friends is, this new year dragged me to yet another greatest singer of folk music in the present generation.

This funky looks guy, gold medalist in Masters in Microbiology and a proficient Indian Classical Dancer (Vidwat in Bharatanatyam),Raghupathy Dixit is now known more as a self-taught-guitarist-singer-composer-songwriter-musician,basically from Mysore and settled in Bengaluru.

He enters the stage with colourfull desi wears. Guys desi wear for him n his band means lungis with colourfull kurta and Ghungroos (anklets). Well ban on lungis in Sharjah sounded the death knell for hundreds of mallu men for whom lungis are like second skin. Hearing the news he chuckled "My first thought when I heard the news was, I might be banned from Sharjah" :)

Recently i heard his debut album "2008:Raghu Dixit" which is launched by popular music directors vishal-shekhar. His music talks of common man s emotion, ethics and life style.

Mysore se aayi, Hey Bhagwan, Gudugudiya are popular songs amongst us, his fans.

If you are bored up of sandalwood, bollywood, why go for western or hollywood jus try his bit of creation and no wonder you ll fall trap in his net. He has redefined folk music with his unmatchable voice, expression and what we call as josh. He has brought smiles on many folk lovers. North Karnataka people are very much eager to see him singing their age-old folks. The following link speaks more bout him, his band and his goals. Just give a try :)

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Thank you have a good day