Hardip Singh Dhanjal combined his job as a Southall youth worker with an interest in music
Hardip Singh Dhanjal combined his job as a Southall youth worker with an interest in music
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Wed 10 Feb 2021 07.18 EST
Last modified on Wed 24 Feb 2021 14.46 EST
My friend and colleague Hardip Singh Dhanjal, who has died aged 60 of cardiac arrest, was a pioneering designer who shaped the imagery surrounding bhangra’s emergence as a popular dance music for young Asians in Britain in the 1980s. He designed innovative album sleeves for labels including Mighty M and MR Records, and bands such as DCS, as well as flyers for the daytime raves that that flourished in Southall, west London, and Handsworth, Birmingham.