Harpreet is a versatile artiste, who sings original musical compositions in Hindi, as well as regional Indian languages and dialects such as Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Rajasthani and Haryanvi. Harpreet has gained critical acclaim for his light classical style of singing. His creative talent fuses both the modern and traditional when composing tunes to his own lyrics and for classical poetry that he loves.
He is best known for creating musical scores to epic works of humanist poets like
Kabir,
Baba Nanak and
Baba Bulleh Shah.
Credited for taking celebrated poets to the masses, Harpreet has also composed popular hummable tunes to words of poets such as
Pash (Avtar Singh Sandhu),
Faiz Ahmad Faiz and
Nirala (Suryakant Tripathi),
Rahim,
Amir Khusrau. The rhythmic blend of soulful poetry to the pulsating sounds of guitar and percussion are at once unique and innovative, familiar and foreign. On his musical journey with poetry, he has delivered a TEDx talk in Jaipur in 2016.
The progressive elements of his artistic practice is not confined to poetry alone. His original composition,
Kutte (dog) – a song about a canine’s view of human life -- was selected by award-winning Bollywood film director Dibakar Banerjee and Kanu Behl for a Yash Raj Films production called
Titli.
Presented by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi & M.A.P // A.M.P.
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