Babla & Kanchan

Babla & Kanchan were an Indian husband-wife musical group best known for work in the chutney music and Desi Folk music genres. They performed together for forty years until Kanchan died in 2004. Originating from India, their music is well known through the world, especially in countries like Canada, United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, the Caribbean, the Netherlands, Mauritius, Fiji, South Africa, Suriname, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom. Babla is the younger brother of famous music director duo Kalyanji Anandji.

Babla Shah, drummer, percussionist, live performing artist, composer and record producer (b. Lxmichand Shah 1942, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), started his band popularly called Babla Orchestra in 1962, and since then performed over a thousand dance concerts and music shows around the planet.

Shah was perhaps at his most active when touring with Kumari Kanchan Dinkerao Mail Shah in the 1980s, as the CD music revolution in pop music was first taking hold.

A form of Folk Dance from the state of Gujarat called Dandiya Raas or Garba Raas was musically redefined by Babla Shah in the 1970s at his live Navratri Music Performances in India, the USA, Australia, Singapore, Canada, London, and many other places.

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