Diljit Dosanjh meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi on New Year’s Day

India has the potential to host music festivals that are bigger in scale than renowned global events like Coachella, Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh said during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on New Year’s Day.

The globally popular singer met the Prime Minister at his residence on Wednesday where they discussed music, culture, and India’s artistic legacy.

During the meeting, PM Modi asked Dosanjh about his experience of travelling outside of India and performing at various global festivals like the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2023.

“I feel that they have made festivals like Coachella or any other very big. And I believe we can make it much bigger. People travel from all over the world for such festivals,” said the 40-year-old singer. Dosanjh said music is embedded in India’s cultural fabric and noted how people who are not trained professionally can often display impeccable talent.

“Whether we are eating food in a dhaba or someone is singing in Rajasthani, the song we listen to is so melodious that I feel like I should stop singing. He is singing such a good song. And I sing professionally, this person is not even singing professionally. And he is singing better than me. He has so much art in him.

“If such a development happens here, people from all over the world will come,” Diljit said. The Prime Minister told the singer that he had been thinking about the same for many years.

“Now I am doing it through Waves,” Modi said, referring to the upcoming World Audio Visual Entertainment Summit.