Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Talvin Singh
Talvin Singh is a British DJ and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of bhangra and drum n bass. Singh grew up in Leytonstone and began playing the tabla, breakdancing and listening to punk rock as a child. Though he lived in India for a time, he moved back to the UK in the late 1980s and began working as a musician with such artists as the Indigo Girls, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sun Ra, Björk and the Future Sound of London. In 1995, Singh founded a club night called Anokha which combined South Asian punk bands with drum n bass DJs. He signed to Island for a compilation of Anokha productions and worked as a remixer until releasing his solo debut, OK , in 1998. The album won him the Mercury Music Prize for 1999. His second album Ha was released in 1999.
The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details