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TAXI DRIVERS
Cab drivers are as international a group of music-lovers as you'll find anywhere. Click below to hear the tunes that keep the Bristol drivers going.
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1 Our Society
2 Iceberg
3 Meri Tauba
4 Widaa
5 Galim im Roa
6 Akhian
7 Saving Myself
8 Chura Liya
9 Shater
10 Universal Struggle
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Contributor
PATRICK GAYLE
SOROOSH VAKILPOUR
MANZOOR HUSSAIN
ADEL SHAHIN
MOHAMED BEN HASSEN
SHAHBAZ SHAFI
'ICE' aka DAVID TINLING
SHAHAID HUSSAIN
HOSNI AL ALANEH
JIMMY SWING
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Track: Chura Liya
Artist: Bally Sagoo
Music: Bollywood
Chosen by: Shahaid Hussain (Bristol)
 ÌýÌýListen to Shahaid Hussain and hear the track Chura Liya by Bally Sagoo taken from Bollywood Flashback (Columbia 477697-2)
My parents are originally from the Punjab in India - my mother is from the Pakistan side, but we are actually from Glasgow, so I am Glaswegian by birth. I have been a taxi driver now for about three years, the reason I actually do it is because my father owns the firm and I actually have to help out with my four brothers, otherwise I’d still probably be in London. The main reason is you are your own boss, and the harder that you work the more you earn. People don’t want to pass on their wealth to bigger companies they want to accumulate their own wealth and give that on to their children.
Music is not just important to me but is important to everybody. Really music depends on how you feel, your attitude towards life - it can be politics. We are not talking about popular music now, we are talking about music that people really listen to. The 15 and the 16 year olds may listen to popular music of today, but real people listen to real music.
This is a track by Bally Sagoo - its a very old track. It just reminds me of my days as a teenager, really. Late teenager coming into my 20’s and just realising that life wasn’t just about earning money and going out and enjoying yourself, that there was real issues out there. Up until the point of about 18-19 you think you are invincible. After that you suddenly realise that you are not and you are basically shaped into what people mould you into, and not what you want to mould yourself into. And I think that music helps you to realise just how you can mould yourself in small ways rather than large ways out there.
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