Bally Sagoo
Personal Profile
Bally Sagoo
Birth Name:
Baljit Singh SagooDate of Birth:
, 1966Place of Birth:
Delhi, IndiaSex:
MaleHair Color:
Black Eye Color:
BrownNationality:
IndianReligion:
Sikhism
Family
Bally Sagoo
Career
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Trivia
Bally Sagoo
- In 2007 he starred in the punjabi movie Sajna ve Sajna.
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- Bally Sagoo worked together with Amitabh Bachchan for a musical rendition of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's poetry and produced Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's album Magic Touch.
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- On an international scale, his most famous work features prominently in Gurinder Chadha's film Bend It Like Beckham.
submitted by - Vaibhav Dhiman
- He has worked twice with the Pakistani pop singer Hadiqa Kiyani.
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- He runs a production company named Ishq Records that manages several artistes like Bohemia and Gunjan.
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Quotes
Bally Sagoo
- Many people are looking out for careers in music. They want to be a DJ, a singer or even a musician. Of course, there’s scope and the living proof of that is me. Seeing my success people want to be disc jockeys or producers. I am not only a DJ but also compose and direct music.. - Unknown
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- I don’t just remix Indian music, but all music, including Arabic. It is promotion of the Indian languages. People of different nations are getting known to both Punjabi and Hindi songs. These days, I am also including Qawwali, the songs of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, which the English are very fond of. I have a crossover audience - the young and old, the White and Black. - Unknown
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- Wherever I go to perform, in clubs or parties, Bhangra is very popular. I have performed in almost all countries and Bhangra is performed everywhere. Be it Hindi or Punjabi, remix add to their popularity. - Unknown
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- I hit upon the idea to bring the two cultures together and make a remix of English and Indian music. It was a completely new idea, which has become a hit. Bollywood, the Indian film industry wants me to do work for them. So, everybody likes this wind of music. - Unknown
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- I started learning music at a very young age and grew up in Birmingham, England where I was influenced by disco and rap music. But, my parents were fond of Bollywood and traditional Indian songs, which I disliked. - Unknown
submitted by - Sandeep Sandeep Singh
Biography
Bally Sagoo
Last Updated: Friday, November 13, 2009
Bally Sagoo is one of the godfathers of British bhangra beat, a fusion of contemporary influences with bhangra, the traditional Indian musical form. Sagoo’s family moved to Birmingham, England when he was six months old. Whilst his father ran an Indian record shop, Bally was far more interested in the soul, dance and reggae music he heard on the radio. As a teenager he made mix tapes (which he sold to friends) and also DJed at parties. He took a Business Studies course at college, although music was still very much where his heart lay. At this point he started to experiment with Indian sounds, adding beats and raps to create his own cross-cultural fusion.
After college Bally Sagoo worked as a hi-fi salesman and continued to experiment with music in his free time. He sent a tape of his remix work to the renowned Indian record label Oriental Star, who were impressed and offered him time in the studio to remix some of their artists. The resulting material was subsequently bootlegged worldwide. In 1990 Oriental Star released Wham Bam, a collection of Sagoo’s remixes of the label’s bhangra material. It became a huge hit amongst England’s Asian community.Following this success Bally Sagoo became the house producer for Oriental Star with whom he released a string of innovative albums, taking in elements of ragga, hip-hop, house and other urban dance styles.
Bally Sagoo's work with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on Magic Touch was particularly acclaimed. In 1993 Island Records subsidiary Mango released Bally Sagoo In The Mix: The Story So Far, a compilation of his Oriental Star material from 1991 and 1992 (including two tracks from Magic Touch). He signed to Columbia Records in 1994 and released Bollywood Flashback, a collection of songs from Hindi films given radical reworkings by Sagoo. The album proved a huge hit amongst Asians in the UK, India and around the world.
It sold over 400,000 copies and with bootleg sales estimated at over a million. Two years later he was given his own television show by MTV India. He also released Rising From The East, his most mature and consistent piece of work to date, it featured the songs “Dil Cheez (My Heart …)” and “Tum Bin Jiya”, both of which entered the upper reaches of the UK pop chart. A follow-up collaboration with Khan arrived in 1997, by which time Sagoo was being acknowledged in periodicals such as Rolling Stone as one of the true innovators of 90s UK dance music.
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Bally Sagoo