Oriental Star Agencies was a British
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...
, that was based in
Balsall Heath
Balsall Heath is an inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It has a diverse cultural mix of people and is the location of the Balti Triangle.
History
Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of ...
. Some of the artists introduced by the label include
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ( pa, ; born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director. He was primarily a singer of qawwali — a form of Sufi devotional music. Sometimes ...
,
Malkit Singh
Malkit Singh, MBE ( pa, ਮਲਕੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ) (Malkit Singh Boparai; born c. 1963) is an England-based Punjabi bhangra singer. Born in Hussainpur and raised in Nakodar, he moved to Birmingham in 1984. Singh was the first Punjabi singer ...
,
Alam Lohar,
Amjad Sabri
Amjad Farid (Fareed) Sabri (23 December 1976 – 22 June 2016) was a Pakistani qawwal, naat khawan and a proponent of the Sufi Muslim tradition. Son of Ghulam Farid Sabri and nephew of Maqbool Ahmed Sabri of the Sabri Brothers, he emerge ...
, and
Bally Sagoo
Baljit Singh "Bally" Sagoo ( Punjabi: ਬਲਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੱਗੂ, born 19 May 1964) is a British-Indian record producer and DJ. Born in Delhi, India, Sagoo was raised in Birmingham, England. He entered the recording and enterta ...
.
History
In 1969, Muhammad Ayub was approached by members of two local
bhangra bands –
Bhujhangy Group
Bhujhangy Group are the world's longest-running bhangra (music), bhangra band. The group was founded in Smethwick, near Birmingham, England, in 1967 by brothers Dalbir Singh Khanpur and Balbir Singh Khanpur, who had come to the United Kingdom to i ...
and Anari Sangeet Party – to record their performances, and the success of the following recordings led him to establish the label.
The label was founded in 1970 by Muhammad Ayub, Abdul Ghani and his son Dr Abdul Mohsin Mian. Muhammad Ayub had previously owned a record store with Abdul Ghani importing Indian and Pakistani music into the United Kingdom. The label was founded in 1970 by Muhammad in
Balsall Heath
Balsall Heath is an inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It has a diverse cultural mix of people and is the location of the Balti Triangle.
History
Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of ...
. OSA went onto become a leading influence on the
Desi DESI may refer to
* Desorption electrospray ionization
* Drug Efficacy Study Implementation
* Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
See also
* Desi (disambiguation)
Desi or Deshi is a self-referential term used by South Asian people.
Desi may al ...
music scene, importing, promoting and producing music from the
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian O ...
as well as nurturing talent among the young
Desi DESI may refer to
* Desorption electrospray ionization
* Drug Efficacy Study Implementation
* Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
See also
* Desi (disambiguation)
Desi or Deshi is a self-referential term used by South Asian people.
Desi may al ...
diaspora. It remained at its Balsall Heath site until 2017
References
External links
Official site
British record labels
Record labels based in Birmingham, West Midlands
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