According to the Punjabi performer’s first interview with Asian Network’s Haroon Rashid, “I used to dream that one day I am going to be on the stage.”
“I wanted people to know my music before they knew who was doing it.”
With songs like “Forever,” “Schedule,” and “Untouchable” consistently charting and being streamed hundreds of millions of times by devoted fans, Tegi has been on a sell-out tour in the United Kingdom.
He is the most recent performer to help Punjabi music gain international recognition.
But it hasn’t been an easy road for him to get here.
“A guy who is really into music”
When Tegi was in his late teens, his family relocated from India to Australia, and his brother made it plain that music was not the top focus.
“I was more worried about the terms of my visa,” he recalls, adding, “You have to work and then you have your parents to look after.”
He thinks that maintaining it as a hobby helped him overcome his initial fear that it might not work out as a job.
Some things are impossible to let go of. Music has always been in my heart, and they are in yours.
