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Bombay Dreams and Singh Is King

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Today I have some music for you that comes from the land of musicals and interesting story lines-India. This song is from the musical play called Bombay Dreams. While this is performed mainly in London and New York, the music was composed by some of the greats of Bollywood. This style of song is called a qawwali. This kind of song is my favorite because there is a great richness of culture. In songs like this, we get a mix of Sufi music and Indian music. This song is used in weddings which you can probably grasp from the title of the video. But this is not what most people imagine a wedding song to sound like. This song has this really nice energy and has a faster beat than the conventional wedding song. Even for Indian weddings, this song has a great pace to keep it lively but lovely. One of the things that makes this song what it is, is the male vocals. The vocals in this song are absolutely beautiful. The way Sukhwinder Singh sings this song is absolutely incredible. He sings this s...