Bally Sagoo
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Bally Sagoo (born Baljit Singh Sagoo) is a British Asian Sikh musician and DJ who was born in Ranjit Nagar, Delhi, India but grew up in Birmingham, England, in a predominantly Black neighbourhood, influenced by disco, rap and Motown music. He gained success as a DJ in the club scene and broke into music by revamping old Bollywood hits and fusing them with hip hop. He is widely credited as one of the original pioneers of what is now modern Indian music, and for triggering the explosion of modern Bhangra pop music (although his music was and is more a fusion of Western dance and hip hop with existing Indian music). This is specifically seen in his 1994 album Bollywood Flashback, followed up with Rising From The East in 1996. Bally runs a production company named Ishq Records that manages several artistes like Bohemia and Gunjan.
On an international scale, his most famous work features prominently in Gurinder Chadha's film Bend It Like Beckham. He 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.
[edit] Discography
- Bally Sagoo In The Mix
- Bollywood Flashback (1994, Columbia)
- Essential Bally
- Rising From The East (1996, Higher Ground/Columbia)
- Star Crazy (1991)
- Story So Far
- Soundtracks For Your Life (1999, Omni Park)
- Bollywood Flashback 2 (2000, Oriental Star)
- Dub of Asia (2000, Ishq)
- Wham Bam Bhangra Remixes
- Wham Bam V.2: Second Massacre
- Hanji (2003, Ishq)
- you too ([2005])
