(CNN) --Coventry, England's, Rajinder Rai, also known as Panjabi MC, is experiencing a wave of attention in America with the recent release of his U.S. debut, "Beware." The MC mixes traditional ...

His Knight Rider-sampling dancefloor banger put dhol drums into hip-hop and Asian beats on the BBC. Now 49, the star takes us back to ‘his own little lab’ in Coventry In February 2003, the UK bhangra ...

Known worldwide as a pioneer in the global popularization of traditional Punjabi music merged with hip hop, R & B, and dance, Panjabi MC was one of the first Asian artists to take Bhangra to the next ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Mother Jones: How is your music received by Punjabi elders and your family back in ...

Coventry-born Panjabi MC drank champagne in Sofia's disco club Double Vision following the successful party he staged in Sofia Land amusement park Saturday evening. He has had chart success with his ...

From Mumbai to Mount Pleasant, hip-hop MCs often shout out the names of their home towns, neighborhoods or other signifiers of regional identity. Most of the cries have more street cred than one heard ...

At the centre of that sonic revolution was British-Indian producer and performer Panjabi MC, whose fusion of bhangra, hip-hop, and electronic music transformed club culture in the early 2000s and ...