Lal Chand Yamla Jatt
Born in 1910, Lal Chand Yamla Jatt is widely credited with laying the foundation of modern Punjabi folk music, popularizing the tumbi through his soft-strummed style and earning a gold medal from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956. His records, including 1963's 'Das Main Ki Pyar Wichon Khattya', became a Punjabi folk bedrock; a young Gurdas Maan has said he practiced writing songs to the metre of Yamla Jatt's tunes before he was even a teenager.
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1963
Das Main Ki Pyar Wichon KhattyaLal Chand Yamla Jatt
we haven’t charted Lal Chand Yamla Jatt yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.