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Born in Malysia of an Indian family, Dya Singh is a Sikh singer and musician now based in Australia. He and his music group have revolutionized Sikh music by creating a new form of World music, blending East & West together while presenting the traditional message of the Sikh Gurus. He has described his group's music as "bringing Sikh music to the world and World music to the Sikhs." With Sikhism's origins in the formerly Indian state of Punjab, which has been divided between India and Pakistan since the partition of India in 1947, Dya's soaring voice and Sikh/Punjabi musical...

"The virtuoso from the ancient holy city of Varanasi (Benares) has been studying classical sitar since he was a child, following a long family tradition which over countless generations has produced many great masters (pandits, in Hindi) of Indian stringed instruments. His first musical guru, in fact, was his highly celebrated grandfather, the late Thakur Mahadev Singh, who in his time was known as "Sitaria Baba," the saint of sitar. Later, he came under the guidance of his father, Ranjit Singh, who gained equal fame as master of the sarod, unlike the sitar a fretless instrument plucked with a coconut...