Gurshabad

Gurshabad ਗੁਰਸ਼ਬਦ
Gurshabad during an interview for his upcoming film
Born	Gurshabad Singh Kular 24 August Amritsar, Punjab, India
Other names	Gurshabad Singh
Education	Master of Arts in Music
Alma mater	Khalsa College, Amritsar, Guru Nanak Dev University
Occupations	Actor Singer
Years active	2015-present
Musical career
Genres	Folk Punjabi Bhangra Romantic Pop Sikh
Labels	Rhythm Boyz Entertainment PTC Motion Pictures
Website	gurshabadofficial.com

Gurshabad Singh Kular (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰਸ਼ਬਦ ਸਿੰਘ ਕੁਲਾਰ; born 24 August), credited as Gurshabad Singh or simply Gurshabad, is an Indian film actor and playback singer known for his work predominantly in Punjabi cinema and music industry. Born in Rampur Bhootwind village in Amritsar district of Punjab, Gurshabad always aspired to become a playback singer, and started learning and performing music at an early age of ten years. He began his musical journey with Sikh religious music, and along the way, he found his love for folk music. After completing his junior high school from a local school, he attended Khalsa College, Amritsar for his undergraduate and went on to study at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar where he completed his Master of Arts program in Music.

Career

In September 2015, Gurshabad debuted as a singer with Vaar Bhagat Singh (dedicated to Shaheed Bhagat Singh), a duo collaboration along with Ammy Virk. In the same year, Gurshabad gave his first film appearance in a box-office success Angrej, in which Amrinder Gill played the lead role. After singing singles including Milne Di Rutt (ਮਿਲਣੇ ਦੀ ਰੁੱਤ) (2016), Geetkariyan (ਗੀਤਕਾਰੀਆਂ) (2016), and Tarakiyaan (ਤਰੱਕੀਆਂ) (2017), Gurshabad commenced his playback singing career with a track titled Rajya (ਰਾਜਿਆ) penned by Harman Jeet in the film Sarvann (2017) produced by Priyanka Chopra, Madhu Chopra & Deepshikha Deshmukh.

Always conscious about how fragile the psychology of a human is and what vulnerabilities a song might expose one to, Gurshabad has been walking on a socially aware and culturally sensitive path in his music and film career. Gurshabad's playback tracks in the Punjabi cinema such as Laari (ਲਾਰੀ) in Vekh Baraatan Challiyan (2017), Tappay (ਟੱਪੇ) in Sat Sri Akaal England (2017), and Selfie in a recently released Golak Bugni Bank te Batua (2018) has turned out to be commercially successful. Gurshabad is also widely appreciated as the Geetkariyan fame singer. For the same, he has also been awarded with PTC Punjabi Music Award for best song with a message.

Psychopolitics of music

Since his beginning in the music industry, Gurshabad has been quite vocal about the depth of his interest in exploring the culture of Punjab through its textual and oral histories. Understanding the power of language, it is no coincidence that one of the written pieces that left a rich mark on his mind is "My Dagestan" by Rasul Gamzatov talks about how our identity is embedded within our mother language. Always keen to stretch the dimensions of his brain, Gurshabad firmly believes that music carries both a power of documenting as well as perpetuating the contemporary culture and realities of societal structure. As music and social psychology carry a reciprocal relationship, he has been visibly unsettled by the fact that for more than a decade, contemporary Punjabi music has been openly encouraging and glamorizing some inherently toxic ideas including the consumption of drugs, and rape culture in the name of commercialization. However, Gurshabad approaches this disturbance with a subtle perspective that "rather than dividing the Punjabi music along binaries of good and bad, we should take music as a documentation of what is happening around us," and critically observe the forms of interaction between human psychology and politics that our music creates a space for.

Without denying his preference for singing folk literature, in the recent interviews for Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua, Gurshabad has made it clear that "I am all exploratory when it comes to performing art, and would try to avoid limiting myself to a particular genre."

Discography

Singles

Year	Song	Record Label	Lyricist	Composer(s)
2016	Milne Di Rutt (ਮਿਲਣੇ ਦੀ ਰੁੱਤ)	Rhythm Boyz Entertainment	Mukhtar	Desi Routz
2016	Jatta Jaag (ਜੱਟਾ ਜਾਗ)	Raavi Motion Pictures	Shiv Kumar Batalvi	Himself
2017	Tarakiyaan (ਤਰੱਕੀਆਂ)	Rhythm Boyz Entertainment	Sidhu Sarabjit	Tigerstyle
2017	Chann Ve (ਚੰਨ ਵੇ)	Rhythm Boyz Entertainment	Harman Jeet	Manpreet Singh, Gurmoh
2018	Taareyaan De Utte (ਤਾਰਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਉੱਤੇ)	DD Punjabi	Harman Jeet	Gurmoh

Duo collaborations

Year	Song	Record Label	Lyricist	Composer(s)	Co-artist(s)
2015	Vaar Bhagat Singh (ਵਾਰ ਭਗਤ ਸਿੰਘ)	PTC Motion Pictures & PTC Punjabi	Bachiter Singh, Prof. Davinder Pal Singh	Desi Routz	Ammy Virk
2016	Geetkariyan (ਗੀਤਕਾਰੀਆਂ)	Rhythm Boyz Entertainment	Satta Vairowalia	Gurmoh	Satta Vairowalia
2017	Jugni Chori Di (ਜੁਗਨੀ ਚੋਰੀ ਦੀ)	Harp Farmer Pictures	Lok Dhara, Harman Jeet	Gurmoh	Ahen, Gurmoh

Film soundtracks

Year	Song	Film	Lyricist	Composer	Music Label	Co-artist
2017	Rajya (ਰਾਜਿਆ)	Sarvann	Harman Jeet	Jatinder Shah	T-Series
2017	Laari (ਲਾਰੀ)	Vekh Baraatan Challiyan	Bir Singh	Gurmoh	Rhythm Boyz Entertainment	Bir Singh
2017	Tappay (ਟੱਪੇ)	Sat Shri Akaal England	Harman Jeet	Jatinder Shah	Saga Music Pvt Ltd	Gurlez Akhtar
2018	Laung Laachi-Male Version (ਲੌਂਗ ਲਾਚੀ)	Laung Laachi	Harman Jeet	Gurmeet Singh	T-Series
2018	Selfie (ਸੈਲਫ਼ੀ)	Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua	Sidhu Sarabjit	Jatinder Shah	Rhythm Boyz Entertainment

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Genre	Role	Writer	Director
2015	Angrej	Historical Romance	Akram	Amberdeep Singh	Simerjit Singh
2018	Golak Bugni Bank Te Batua	Comedy-drama	Dodhi	Dheeraj Rattan	Ksshitij Chaudhary
2018	Ashke †	Dance Romance	TBA	Dheeraj Rattan

External links

• Official website
• Gurshabad at IMDb