This Female Bagpiper Creates New Sound By Colliding Scottish And Indian Music

Nov 21, 2018 by apost team

In this age of musical experimentation, artists are trying all kinds of different and crazy sounds. Some work, some don't, but many of them serve to keep us interested!

Here's a new combination for music lovers: the collision of Indian and Scottish music, complete with a truly gifted bagpipes musician. In fact, it's not even that common to stumble upon a bagpiper who is so mind-blowingly gifted that the world pays attention!

Archy J, also known as her stage name, "The Snake Charmer," is just not your every day musical artist!

Archy J comes from Delhi, India. She has a true way with music and a real passion for playing the bagpipes. She even confesses that playing the bagpipes was always one of her true desires in life, and mastery of the complicated instrument was something she had always wanted above all else.

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As well as being a singer, Archy J once fronted a band from the capital of India known as the Rogue Saints, while also working a job that paid her quite well. She left both of these to pack up and travel to Scotland in order to pursue her dream of becoming a disciplined and talented bagpipes artist.

Her ten days in Scotland were mostly spent in structured tutelage of the instrument, investing her time as well as she possibly could. Archy J, a true artist, believed that everything would be well worth it if she put in her time to the instrument of the bagpipes.

Of course, ten days is not nearly enough time to learn any instrument aside from the kazoo, and this musician wishes she could have stayed longer. Watching her videos you can see that, while she picked up quite a bit of instruction on the bagpipes while in Scotland, she clearly put time and effort into refining her technique upon her return.

Fans still love Archy J for her hauntingly beautiful vocals as well. She is well known for her appearance at a Gurgaon cafe in 2012, as one of just a few female musicians to play that evening. Covering Adele's hit track "Someone Like You," she was known then as a charmer, and continued to book gigs and pull crowds.

Her charm has not failed her today, even while playing a very unlikely instrument back in India. Music lovers see her positively swooning to her own music, truly enjoying the sound and showing off in her tartan red skirt, and anyone is hooked!

See how this stunning musician places the bagpipes in her own culture in the video below:

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