Indian dance group rocks town
Nov 10, 2005
There was a stampede on the dance floor at Club Rouge as everyone reveled in the Indian hit Nakupenda Regina.
By Titus Serunjogi
There was a stampede on the dance floor at Club Rouge as everyone reveled in the Indian hit Nakupenda Regina.
Forget the usual boy-swings-with-girl kind of choreography. Here, man and woman were trying to overpower each other in dance, and with a good deal of physical power. Even for all its lewdness, Indian dance music is the rage over town.
Nakupenda Regina, like other Indian pop music, is immensely catchy. The song mixes traditional Hindi melodies with techno, funk, ragga and hip-hop. The result is an extraordinarily jerky beat that will ignite the party mood anywhere.
How many Ugandan partygoers ever catch the meaning in Hindi lyrics? Yet it’s a wonder that Nakupenda Regina, Roop Tera, Cudi and such other Indian dance pop will ignite as much frenzy as Taata w’abaana yaani?.
Most of the Indian pop songs are an easy pick-up for any DJ. Roop Tera, for example, is often played alongside such well-known dancehall vibes by Buju Banton and T.O.K. Little wonder that Indian pop hits are some of the most sought-after on Friday night rave shows on FM radios.
“Indian pop music is so exhilarating,†says Andrew Kiwanuka, a producer famous for churning out hits with such unnatural vocals such as Nakupenda Regina’s.
Many Ugandans are catching on the extraordinary flavours in Indian music. Watching the Kombat dance group prancing, leaping, swaying and gyrating to Piya piya, another popular Indian dance song, was very captivating. The girls wore transparent silk robes that flowed well with the eerie vocals in the music. Indian dance pop is another craze in town.
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There was a stampede on the dance floor at Club Rouge as everyone reveled in the Indian hit Nakupenda Regina.
Forget the usual boy-swings-with-girl kind of choreography. Here, man and woman were trying to overpower each other in dance, and with a good deal of physical power. Even for all its lewdness, Indian dance music is the rage over town.
Nakupenda Regina, like other Indian pop music, is immensely catchy. The song mixes traditional Hindi melodies with techno, funk, ragga and hip-hop. The result is an extraordinarily jerky beat that will ignite the party mood anywhere.
How many Ugandan partygoers ever catch the meaning in Hindi lyrics? Yet it’s a wonder that Nakupenda Regina, Roop Tera, Cudi and such other Indian dance pop will ignite as much frenzy as Taata w’abaana yaani?.
Most of the Indian pop songs are an easy pick-up for any DJ. Roop Tera, for example, is often played alongside such well-known dancehall vibes by Buju Banton and T.O.K. Little wonder that Indian pop hits are some of the most sought-after on Friday night rave shows on FM radios.
“Indian pop music is so exhilarating,†says Andrew Kiwanuka, a producer famous for churning out hits with such unnatural vocals such as Nakupenda Regina’s.
Many Ugandans are catching on the extraordinary flavours in Indian music. Watching the Kombat dance group prancing, leaping, swaying and gyrating to Piya piya, another popular Indian dance song, was very captivating. The girls wore transparent silk robes that flowed well with the eerie vocals in the music. Indian dance pop is another craze in town.
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