Chirag Pehchan

Chirag Pehchan was a 1980s Bhangra band in the UK, formed by Amarjit Sidhu and Mangal Singh by merging the two Punjabi bhangra groups Chirag and Pehchan, best remembered for the 1987 classic album Rail Gaddi, composed by Kuljit Bhamra. Their song Rail Gaddi was sung by Mangal Singh and became a popular party piece at the end of Indian weddings, synonymous with Do The Conga, where wedding guests form lines, pretending to be a train, dancing around the wedding hall.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References[edit]

^ Harris, Craig. "Biography: Chirag Pehchan". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
^ Daboo, Jerri (2017). Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre. Routledge. ISBN 9781317196112.
^ "Mangal Singh - Asian Entertainments". www.asianentertainmentsuk.com. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
^ "Chirag Pehchan Group, Rail Gaddi, by Chirag Pehchan - Cassette Sleeve - SALIDAA - VADS: the online resource for visual arts". vads.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
^ "10 Popular UK Bhangra Bands from the 1980s". DESIblitz. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2019.

External links[edit]

June 2019 Mangal Singh - Rail Gaddi (Official) - Chirag Pehchan 1987

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[1] Harris, Craig. "Biography: Chirag Pehchan". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 May 2010.

[Culture-2] Daboo, Jerri (2017). Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre. Routledge. ISBN 9781317196112.

[asian-3] "Mangal Singh - Asian Entertainments". www.asianentertainmentsuk.com. Retrieved 22 June 2019.

[vads-4] "Chirag Pehchan Group, Rail Gaddi, by Chirag Pehchan - Cassette Sleeve - SALIDAA - VADS: the online resource for visual arts". vads.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2019.

[Desiblitz-5] "10 Popular UK Bhangra Bands from the 1980s". DESIblitz. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2019.

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