Punjabi music industry :
Over 400 registered music labels, an average of 15 to 20 songs released each day, and an annual turnover of over 24 million US dollars.
This is the Punjabi music industry in India, and it has been under attack by criminal organisations for years.
The recent death threat issued to Rappah Honey Singh and the brutal murder of rapper and politician Sidhu Moose Walain in 2022 are examples of the threat that gangs pose to the Punjabi music industry.
With India having millions of musical artists, why is the Punjabi music industry the specific Target: Where does the real problem lie? Are Punjabi musicians purely the victims of this mess, or is there something more? Sinisterto, are there links to a separatist movement? This is a dark world.
Let’s talk some music. The Punjabi music industry is now becoming a prime target of the underworld.
The increasing global popularity and revenues of the industry have made it Loop creative for gangsters to issue extortion and death threats to artistsMost gangsters belong to Indo-Canadian gangs and have been committing wild crimes in Punjab from Canada.
is one of the most successful rappers and music producers in India. The threat to sing came just months after he made a comeback after a gap of five years.
Honey Singh is not the first Punjabi artist to have faced threats. Gippy Grewal, another prominent Punjabi singer and actor, received extortion threats in 2018. Punjabi musicians have been living under the shadow of the underworld since the 1980s.
Soften, regarded as the Elvis Presley of Punjab, was gunned down in 1988, and the case still remains unsolved. In the same year that Champila was murdered, two other high-profile Punjabi artists, Singh Sandhu and Viraj Singh, were killed.
also known as Satender Singh Brar, is an Indo-Canadian gangster and member of the notorious Lawrence Bishnoy gang. He is the mastermind of the Sidhu Moose Wala murder and has been named in many other high-profile criminal cases in Punjab.
Goldie lives in Canada and conducts his criminal activities through a module in Punjab. He is among the top 25 wanted criminals in Canada. Goldie has also been suspected of backing the Khalistan separatist movement, an allegation he denied in a recent interview with an Indian news channel.
Goldie Justified murdering Sidhu Moosewala and also issued a death threat to Bollywood actor Salman Khan. A majority of successful actors and musicians in the Punjabi entertainment industry have linkages with Canada, and many of them have Canadian citizenship or permanent residency permits.
This has put them at an increased risk of being targeted by gangs. The evolution of Punjabi music from folklore to pop has seen a transition from promoting the state’s Rich culture to now most of the music focusing on drugs.
Alcoholism, gun culture, objectifying women, and mocking law enforcement Such music has negatively impacted Punjab’s youth, so when government authorities tighten the belt on those backing the Khalistan movement and musicians promoting criminal activities through their music, and when there’s a Crackdown on the gangsters involved, what are your thoughts about this? Let me know in the comments.
