Legendary singer, Hazara Singh Ramta, breathes his last in Canada
Family to bring legendary singer Hazara Singh Ramta's remains to Mumbai next week, after which they would be immersed in Punjab
Ramta began his singing career in the s, after which he toured the world
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India's beloved Ramta Jogi - legendary singer Hazara Singh Ramta – breathed his last at a hospital in Brampton, Canada on Wednesday due to age-related ailments. Known for his simple and witty lyrics, often stringing along to the tunes of a tumbi, Ramta went on to become a globetrotting musician, putting Punjabi music on the world map. His family would be bringing his remains to the city next week, before immersing the ashes in Kirtapur Saheb Gurudwara in Punjab.
Ramta with Amitabh Bachchan and Dara Singh
Ramta was born in Sahiwal, Punjab (now in Pakistan) on August 1, His singing career began in the s, after which he toured the world. Till today, he finds mention in numerous Hindi film songs as 'Ramta Jogi', most notably in a song by the same title in Subhash Ghai's film Taal.
He was known for his satirical, jovial lyrics that were wholly based on h
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Punjab’s Inimitable Troubadour:
Hazara Singh Ramta
August 1, - September 6, T. SHER SINGH
HAZARA SINGH RAMTA
August 1, - September 6,
Growing up in Patna in the State of Bihar -- a thousand miles from the land of my ancestors, my parents being refugees from the carnage of The Partition -- had interesting aspects to it.
To a young boy who only got to visit Punjab periodically and only for short periods, everything about Punjab was mythic and idealistic. Music, dance, legends and folktales, saakhis and history, even the new Punjabi capital of Chandigarh and Punjab’s record-breaking Bhakra-Nangal Hydro-electric Dam, everything acquired a larger-than-life aura.
Punjabi music and dance in particular were a constant, nagging source of hunger and frustration: I could never get enough of them. It was a blessing that Patna was, by dint of being the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh, one of the four great Takhts (Sikhdom’s Thrones of Spiritual Authority). It was therefore the venue for three or four massive annual celebrations wh
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| First Name | Hazara |
| Middle Name | Singh |
| Last Name | Ramta |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Singer |
Punjabi folk singer Hazara Singh Ramta () wrote and crooned the witty track Ramta Africa Wich (Ramta in Africa) in , narrating his misadventures in Africa and makes mention in his escapades about Kenya and Uganda where he regales his hilarious encounters with the land and its peoples.
Hazara Singh Ramta (), standing at the back next to Kenya's legendary hockey Olympian Avtar Singh Sohal (b. ), together with the Punjabi folk singers and sister Prakash Kaur () and Surinder Kaur () and in the company of Liberty Bar's Mehar Singh and his wife in Nairobi when the singers were on a concert tour in
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