Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Heera Group - The Band of the Ages in Indian Music

Heera Group, one of the pioneers of Indian Music Bands, was formed in the year 1980 by the lead singer, Palvinder Dhami who teamed up with Kumar and 8 other musicians. Heera Group was formed in the U.K., as this was the setup base camp for bands thereafter Heera Group. Heera performed at weddings and birthdays and then the break came. In 1981, with the help of Charanjit Ahuja as the music producer, they released their first album Bhabi Te Nanaan Nachdi. This success then led to another album in 1984 being produced by Kuljit Bhamra. Then in 1986, album titled Diamond From Heera produced by Deepak Khazanchi broke all barriers in Indian Music and was the first ever Punjabi Pop album and was a smashing hit worlwide. This made Heer Group into the ultimate bands of all time. Simply put, the best band Indian Music has seen to date.

Diamonds From Heera album went Platinum disc.

The lead of Heera Palvinder Dhami has now gone solo and releases his albums, but lacks the success of the Heera Group days in the 1980's and 1990's. His son, Hartinder or H Dhami has just released a Punjabi Pop album as well this year.