CHANDIGARH – A Punjabi folk ballad ‘Tere Bin Dil’ by a former Patiala-based Thapar University student and software engineer, Dilpreet Bhatia, who was born in Ludhiana, has won the first place in the world music category of prestigious International Songwriting Competition (ISC). His song was selected out of 16,000 songs sent from 112 countries.
“We have just got the news that one of my songs ‘Tere Bin Dil’ has won International Songwriting Competition,” a jubilant Dilpreet Bhatia told The Times of India over telephone from Mumbai where he is working with Morgan Stanley.
“This year was the most competitive of any year in terms of quantity and quality of entries,” he said.
Dipreet Bhatia is in an august company of award winners like Kimbra Johnson, best known for her hit song “”Somebody that I used to know’ with Australian Artist Gotye.
She won the grand price of the competition.
Panel of judges for the award included legendary english heavy metal vocalist and songwriter Ozzy Osborne; American singer and songwriter Kelly Clarkson; American folk-rock and country music star Lucinda Williams, multiple Grammy Award winning musician Alejandro Sanz and iconic artists such as Tori Amos, Tom Waits, Jeff Beck, McCoy Tyner and Jeremy Camp, among others.
