White Sun's Grammy win puts glow on Sikh faith
Adam Berry (L) Gurujas and Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa of White Sun pose with the award for best new age album for 'White Sun II' at the Grammy Awards.
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White Sun music group is attracting a huge fanbase from Punjab.
Their album has compositions from Guru Granth Sahib which is appealing to the Punjabi listeners.
White Sun's album White Sun II won the Best New Age Album at the Grammys.
A day after they won a Grammy for its latest eponymous album, music group White Sun found a fresh fanbase in Punjab as listeners tuned into their website to find words they had counted on their entire lives.
As many as 10 compositions in the album, 'White Sun II', are either from the Guru Granth Sahib or have been penned by the 10th Sikh master, Guru Gobind Singh, and a part of daily prayers. The 11th composition is an instrumental based on the Sikh expression for God - Akaal.
The award was received by lead singer Gurujas Khalsa, a turbaned Sikh of American origin, alongside band co-founder and two-time Emmy-winning music composer Adam Berry and instrumentalist Harjiwan, a turbaned disciple of the late Harbhajan Singh Yogi aka Yogi Bhajan, who started propagating Sikhism among Americans half a century ago.
