Rabbi Shergill on sufism, protest and why his guitar silently weeps
He’s got music in his soul and a maverick approach to life.
That’s been evident in the trajectory of his career. On the one hand, Rabbi Shergill has known fame like few others – a mad spike from nowhereland into superstardom when his cult hit Bulla Ki Jaana hit the headlines.
On the other, though, Rabbi refused to play by anyone else’s rules, making the music and following the passions closest to his heart. And in a revealing, almost melancholic conversation Shergill talked protest, music and identity fresh off the street from #NotInMyName where he performed the music closest to his heart.
Rabbi was articulate and passionate, but it was when he took to song that he was his most compelling. From the iconic Bullah Ki Jaana to Jugni to the poetic Tere Bin – which, while it reads as a romantic love song, was revealed to be an ode to his father soon after his passing – Rabbi‘s mystical voice was the heady note we needed to end the night on a spectacular high.
Watch the full session above; hear and be mesmerised all over again.
