Rabbi Shergill (born 1975) is an Indian musician famous for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005, Bulla Ki Jana. His music has been described variously as rock, Meet Rabbi Shergill, Indipop's latest star! by Sumit Bhattacharya, Rediff.com Specials Sufiana, and "semi-Sufi semi-folksy kind of music with a lot of Western arrangements." Rhythm Divine by Swagata Sen, The Telegraph, November 21, 2004. Rabbi himself has been called "Punjabi music's true urban balladeer".Rabbi's father was a Sikh preacher. His mother is a college principal and a Punjabi poetess. Rabbi is an alumnus of Khalsa College, Delhi. He started at the Fore School of Management but dropped out after a year. He did ad jingles for a while, including for Nova ghee, Yamaha RX-T motorbikes, and Times FM.He struggled for many years to get his debut album published. He was working with Sony Music for a while, but Sony backed out. He then approached Minty Tejpal, brother of Tehelka's editor-in-chief Tarun Tej

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