Word: daler
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...were to create the perfect global pop star, the result would be nothing like Daler Mehndi. There's his look?black beard, bejeweled turban and belly surfing over his waistband. There's his halting English, his insistence on singing in Punjabi and his tongue-tangling name, pronounced "Dlurr Maindy." Then there are his '80s-style videos, pulsing with primitive arcade-game effects and joyful dancers in jumpsuits. And yet in the late '90s, fresh from a stint driving a cab in Berkeley, California, Mehndi became Asia's biggest-ever pop export...
...clubbers alike. In 1999 an American critic, stunned by the ecstatic crowd at one of his New Jersey concerts, declared Mehndi "bigger than the Beatles." Today hot London producer and fellow bhangra artist Rishi Rich says Mehndi "put Asian music on the map." Or as Mehndi himself says: "Daler Mehndi was different from anybody. That's why people like Daler Mehndi...
...Aparisim Ghosh: I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza, Amman and Baghdad...
...flak jacket and the satellite phone, music - an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong - can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq. Aparisim Ghosh I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza, Amman and Baghdad. Alex Perry Perhaps the best number was: Why Can't We Be Friends...
...CHARGED. DALER MEHNDI, 36, superstar of Indian bhangra music, with fraud for allegedly planning to smuggle migrants abroad by disguising them as musicians and dancers in his troupe; in Patiala, India. Mehndi, a former cab driver who rose to the top of the Punjabi-pop genre, denied the charges and said his brother, who was also charged, misused his name...