WIkkid Kirtan(i)!

Most... no all of the days I spent in Punjab in the 1995-1996 school year were mornings and evenings filled with two hours of Kirtan Live from Darbaar Sahib on the shortwave radio. I don’t recall much about the way the Gurbani was sung back then, maybe because I didn’t know too much at the time.

But today as I woke up from my evening nap I went into the family room area and there was Kirtan- just like a decade ago! So I grabbed the mp3 recorder and recorded it.

I didn't just record it to capture the WIKKKID! nostalgic sound, but the way they pronounced 'Vah' (which can also be translated into WIKKID in many instances.

The Ragi Singhs in the evening Kirtan Chaunkee(shift) sang
‘Vah’ as ‘Vah’ where almost everyone else would have said ‘VahOO’

This proves that there are indeed some (good) people in the world
who really think before they sing and put Gurbani before fancy handwork on the
vaja...

The complete Shabad can be found here.

The corect VAH VAH again.
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