Satinder Sartaaj

Born Satinder Pal Singh in Bajrawar, in Hoshiarpur district in Indian Punjab, Satinder Sartaaj develops a path at the crossroads of Sufi music, Punjabi folk, and Punjabi-language sung poetry. Trained in music at the Government College in Hoshiarpur, then at Panjab University in Chandigarh, where he pursued research in Sufi singing and taught for several years, Satinder Sartaaj early places writing and shayari at the center of his work. His visibility widens in the late 2000s with the track 'Sai', then through regular on-stage presence in India, the United Kingdom, Canada and among the Punjabi diaspora. In his songs, Satinder Sartaaj favors lyrical melodies, expansive singing, and writing nourished by spirituality, literary language, and images drawn from the Sufi tradition, while maintaining an accessible form typical of Punjabi popular song. His discography includes notably Sartaaj (2010), Cheerey Wala Sartaaj (2011), Tere Qurbaan (2012), Afsaaney Sartaaj De (2013), Rangrez - The Poet of Colors (2014), Seasons of Sartaaj (2018), Seven Rivers (2019–2021), Tehreek (2021), Shayrana Sartaaj (2023) and Travel Diaries (2024). Parallel to music, Satinder Sartaaj also pursues acting, with The Black Prince in 2017, then Punjabi films such as Ikko Mikke in 2020 and Kali Jotta in 2023.