'Folk music is music of people'

N medieval times, streets pulsed with melody as wandering singers spun songs laced with familiar truths. From hamlet to hamlet, they sang of daily lives, divine tales, and so on...they were the messengers of reality. Centuries later, Rahgir channels that same spirit through his folk music.

- NITIKA KRISHNA

N medieval times, streets pulsed with melody as wandering singers spun songs laced with familiar truths. From hamlet to hamlet, they sang of daily lives, divine tales, and so on...they were the messengers of reality. Centuries later, Rahgir channels that same spirit through his folk music. While many artists prefer to be studio-bound, Rahgir wanders in search of answers — modern in form, but ancient in soul. Songs like Mere Gaon Aaoge and Kya Jaipur Kya Dilli are not just music; they are raw, fearless reflections of life and its absurdities.

On June 1, he will bring that energy to Hyderabad with a show titled after his hit, Kya Jaipur Kya Dilli, at The Moonshine Project, Jubilee Hills. In a candid chat with CE, he takes us through the road that brought him here and the truth-telling music that keeps him going.