Pakistan, April 7 -- One of the UK's first Bhangra artists has warned that traditional Punjabi music skills are fading.

Paul Chand, who moved to Bradford from Jalandhar, India in 1969, won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the UK Bhangra Awards in December 2025.

He said his aim was to keep traditional Punjabi folk music alive.

Chand said: "Nowadays people come to England and after three, four, five years they lose their tongue and they can't even pronounce the words.

"There's not many people who can sing pure Punjabi and traditional folk music.

"But when you perform traditional Punjabi music and introduce guitar and mandolin and saxophone, it really sounds brilliant." Chand formed the Anjaana Group more than 50 years ago.

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