Date: 6th December 2003, By: Gurdas Maan & Troupe:-
Some people are born celebrities and other make it on sheer will. One thing remains, if you have the talent you stay. GURDAS MAAN is one of such name. A man who is always been aware of his strengths and made it big in life due to them. You can be exposed to music and then you listen to Gurdas Maan. Besides giving you beats in your heart and pump in your steps, here is a man who has a capacity to bring forth your emotions, with his songs. For he is far beyond the realm of languages and if you are genuine music lover then this is something you will love…
Born to S. Gurdev Singh and Tej Kaur, in a village by the name of Giddarbaha in Dist. Faridkot, Punjab. He went through the normal drill of being educated in Malout. The one thing with him even in those days was his singing. On completion of his Master Degree, he started looking around for a job. But in the meanwhile , keeping the creativity channel in him open, he continued to write as well as do stage plays. Having arrived on the music scene more than two dacades ago and still holding on o his seat, the credit of taking Punjabi music from a regional level to National and then onto the International level absolutely goes to Gurdas Maan.
Maan prefers the absence of the word Bhangra in any description of his output, favoring more ambitiously vague descriptions such as adventurous, improved music. In its unadulterated form, it’s expertly performed material, delving into propulsive, meditative and folksy spaces. Maan’s pieces are often frayed around the edges, but with little discord. It is fresh sounding stuff worthy of investigation by those who feel they have heard it all before.
Maan captures the essence of the public behind the music in his delightful phrasing, gentle lift and unquestionable passion. Gurdas Man is lucid energy, clear, pure tone is matched only by the soul he breathes into his music. “Maan is also an accomplished actor with award winning films like Shaheed-E-mohabbat” to his credit.
