Bhai Gopal Singh

Bhai Gopal Singh Jee came from Amritsar and was brought up in an orphanage in Amritsar where he learned Kirtan. He was very good from a young age and became Hazuri Ragi in Sri Harmandir Saheb. Some people from Delhi invited him to come to Delhi and he found employment at Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib in Chandani Chowk, where he did Kirtan duties regularly. He was transferred to Mata Sundri Gurdwara which had government servant living quarters.

Gopal Singh had lost his eyesight when he was some three years old maybe due to some wrong medication and was assisted by some one to move around. He had some differences (due to his request for undertaking free-lance Keertan outside Gurudwaras) with the management of the Delhi Gurdwaras and lost his job and accommodation there. Sikhs who used to learn Gurbani Keertan from him supported him during this phase including housing him and providing meals for him in turn in different homes.

During his stay in Delhi he got married and had a son. After some stay in Delhi following his being removed from Gurudwara job, he moved back to Amritsar, where he passed away after a cardiac arrest.

Bhai Gopal Singh had cut a disc of Shabads under the music and arrangements of K.S. Narula (father of Jaspinder Narula). Narula was a music director of Punjabi popular and folk music in 50s and 60's of the last century and was published under HMV (later SaReGaMa records) and became very popular. The disc had some of his best recordings.