Bollywood monopoly is affecting solo music: Rabbi

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"Bollywood's monopoly has taken its toll on independent music. People are hearing less solo music and it has become real hard for independent composers to thrive," he rues.

He says other forms of music need to survive as well.

"We want to celebrate uniqueness and not clones. Bollywood music has become so repetitive," he says.

According to him, independent singers and composers need to develop avenues to rival multiplexes. "Maybe, we can do more live shows as television channels are also not helping much in our cause," he says.

Rabbi, whose "Bulla ki jana main kaun" on Sufi poet Baba Bulle Shah four years ago went to become a superhit, has now come out with his second album "Avengi Ja Nahin" where he croons in Punjabi, Hindi and even English.

"Avengi Ja Nahin" has been produced largely in Milan by the Italian progressive rock maestro and producer Maurio Pagani, who has also arranged and conducted the strings.

In the album, released by YRF music, Rabbi engages more directly with social issues even as he grapples with the downside of romantic love.

"It has a little echo of the past but still there is a new touch." "Avengi Ja Nahin" is YRF Music's first non-film album.

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