{"id":25561,"date":"2018-02-02T19:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=25561"},"modified":"2018-02-02T19:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:13:30","slug":"conversation-dj-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/conversation-dj-harvey\/","title":{"rendered":"In Conversation with DJ Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Birmingham allowed me to experience the heartbeat of Uk Bhangra.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to artists like Safri, Malkit Singh, The Sahota\u2019s and many more. This influenced me to get in music production. \u00a0I knew this was my calling!<\/p>\n<p>This lead me in to Dj-ing which gave me a insight on what kind of music the public like.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 i released my first single \u2018Enhi Sohni\u2019 with Miss Pooja and there after I went on to\u00a0 work with many other artists such as\u00a0Jaz Dhami, Nirmal Sidhu, Kaka Bhaniawala, Saini Surinder, General Levy and many more.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The new track Tu Meri Ke Lag Di by DJ Harvey and feat H Dhami, tell us a little bit about the song?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Tu Meri Ki Lagdi is a up beat, Happy, fun loving dance floor banger,\u00a0full of energy which makes you want to get up and dance.\u00a0The lyrics are written by Santhokh Singh Dhesi.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>What was it like collaborating with H Dhami?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I had several vocalist come in to my studio to sing Tu Meri Ki Lagdi and they didn\u2019t quite cut it for me.<\/p>\n<p>I was Dj-ing at a wedding and I happen to play one of H Dhami\u2019s songs and the crowd was buzzing, singing along, dancing and that\u2019s when it hit me why not ask H Dhami ?<\/p>\n<p>It was a great working with H Dhami the energy he brought to the song was amazing from the first time me playing him the record,\u00a0to him laying down the vocals,\u00a0until the song released commercially.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>The setting looks amazing where was the video shot?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The setting I Envisioned was of the old skool Punjabi videos where you would see Kuldeep manak performing on roofs tops, the vibrant colours, singing, dancing people enjoying themselves that\u2019s what I wanted for my music video. \u00a0The video was shot in a stunning location at Nalagarh, which is just outside of Chandigarh. I think we nailed it!\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>How long did it take to produce the song and make the video?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>music for the song<\/em>\u00a0<em>was ready so once<\/em>\u00a0<em>H Dhami had\u00a0<\/em>d<em>one the<\/em>\u00a0<em>final vocal, Moviebox decided<\/em>\u00a0<em>to shoot the video in Punjab<\/em>\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0<em>prepare for the release so I\u2019d say about<\/em>\u00a0<em>6 months<\/em>\u00a0<em>or so.<\/em><\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong>Will we be seeing more from you and do you have other tracks in the pipeline?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Yes definitely you will<\/em>\u00a0<em>be seeing<\/em>\u00a0<em>more of me so watch<\/em>\u00a0<em>out for my collaborations<\/em>\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0<em>a few international artists and a few Mixtapes.<\/em><\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><strong>When you are not making music what do you like to do?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>When<\/em>\u00a0<em>I\u2019m not making<\/em>\u00a0<em>music<\/em>\u00a0<em>I\u2019m busy djing around the<\/em>\u00a0<em>UK. Supporting other artists with there music ventures and generally relaxing as much as possible \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><strong>Who would you like to collaborate with in the future<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t think about collaborating with anyone I like<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>write and<\/em>\u00a0<em>compose the lyrics and<\/em>\u00a0<em>then I decide<\/em>\u00a0<em>who I think<\/em>\u00a0<em>would be perfect for my song, it could be a established artist or just someone who\u2019s new on the scene as long as the singer gels with the song.<\/em><\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li><strong>Message to your fans.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Guys I<\/em>\u00a0<em>just want to thank you for<\/em>\u00a0<em>everything.\u00a0<\/em>I\u00a0<em>know i have been away for a couple of years and appreciate<\/em>\u00a0<em>the love I<\/em>\u00a0<em>felt since releasing Tu Meri Ki Lagdi<\/em>\u00a0so keep supporting and I look forward for all of you guys to hearing the next one.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rt8rzM9RTEY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Birmingham allowed me to experience the heartbeat of Uk Bhangra. Listening to artists like Safri, Malkit Singh, The Sahota\u2019s and many more. This influenced me to get in music production. \u00a0I knew this was my calling! This lead me in to Dj-ing which gave me a insight on what kind of music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,108,401,107],"tags":[762,763],"class_list":["post-25561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desixpress","category-dx-interviews","category-entertainment","category-music","tag-dj-harvey","tag-h-dhami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}