His Hit Smash Kulwinder Dhillon, was launched by his song Boliyan. This has created a modern, urban style bhangra genre that is listened to by more than just North Indians.Īrtists such as RDB have fused the urban style of the United Kingdoms hip-hop music with traditional Punjabi beats and lyrics which models the new bhangra genre that is described above.Īlthough women mainly sing boliyan, men also do.
Now, boliyan have been fused with Bhangra music to spread all over the world to North America, Great Britain as well as Australia and New Zealand and mixed with all the cultures it interacts with. It is through this process that boliyan have refined and passed on from long ago. This forms a continuous and successive chain, each generation being taught by their predecessor. These boliyan are usually passed down generation by generation orally. Usually a boli is sung and introduced by one woman, and then the other girls form a chorus. (February 2007)īoliyan or Bolis are couplets that are sung in Punjab.Ī Boli expresses situations, their emotions and their typical situations. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article does not cite any references or sources.
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