Gursikh's Guiness World Record Attempt

[Akaali]

Guinness World Record Attempt

For the longest drumming marathon - individual

By Jagjit Singh, resident of Greater Toronto Area

Toronto, ON, Canada

Toronto,Sep. 21, 2007 -Jagjit Singh of Toronto, Canada will take a shot atsetting the record forlongest drumming marathon (Current Record of 101hours was set back in2005)(http://www.kgr-mridangam.com/guinness_record.html) from October3-7, 2007 at Mississauga, ON.

Witnessan awe-inspiring individual put his skills and talent to thetest. Jagjit Singh will be attempting to surpass all physical boundarieswhile tryingto beat a world record. He will be playing Tabla for 110hours non-stop! Preparations have been underway for sometime and thedaunting days are nearing.Shiromani Sikh Sangat of Mississauga, locatedin Mississauga, is the prime time and your frontand center seat to thisonce-in-a-lifetime event. Best of all there is noadmission fee!

By profession, Jagjit Singh is a local Tabla teacher in Brampton, ON.Hebegan his Tabla days as a young student of Late Alla Rakha Khan, and later Zakir Hussain, son of Late Alla Rakha Khan. He has played Tablawith various Artists and Singers and has won various competitions. He has also participated in many Tabla demonstrations.

BE A PART OF THIS INSPIRING EVENT!

Here are the detailsof the event:

WHO:- Jagjit Singh (Tabla Player/Teacher)

WHAT:- Guinness World Record Attempt for the Longest Drumming Marathon - Individual, by playing Tabla for 110 hours

WHERE:- Shiromani Sikh Sangat of Mississauga, 2377 Dunwin Drive, Mississauga, ON, L5E 2P8

Phone: 905-828-2710

WHEN:- From Oct. 3, 2007 @ 9:00 a.m. To Oct. 7, 2007 @ 11:00 p.m.

Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Recordsbook is published in more than 100 countries and20languages and is oneof the highest-selling books under copyright ofall timewith more than 3million copies sold annually across the globe.Guinness World

Recordscelebrated its 50th anniversary edition in 2004,a year after the saleof its 100 millionth copy.

The Guinness WordRecords website(http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/) receives morethan 11 millionvisitors a year. Guinness World Records is published byHITEntertainment Limited, a fully integrated global studio with divisions in the U.K., U.S., Canada and Japan, including broadcast production and distribution, video and audio sales, consumer products licensing and marketing.

Download Photos (http://www.jagjitsingh.ca/Jagjit_Singh.zip)

Download Media Release(http://www.jagjitsingh.ca/MediaRelease.pdf)

[OhTwadi]

dude, his hands are gonna hurt soooooo bad after :lol:

is he not gonna eat and drink for that long?

[Simple Singhani]

RESPECT :lol: hehe!

[smartsingh24]

One of the best people you'll ever get to know, and a crzy tabla player. He's defintley gona go the distance, and then some.

[nanosecond]

What's up? is he playing tabla as of now?

[ParnaamShaheedaNu]

Wow! Any update?

[nanosecond]

Looks like the world record is broken .See here

http://www.thestar.com/article/264555

[Guru Ka Singh]

He has done it!!!

Follow the links

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=416...04&hl=en-CA

Toronto Star New Article

http://www.thestar.com/article/264555

Waheguru Rakha

[N30S1NGH]

Great work man, this is amazing... However, they said its still unoffical, I guess this is still needs to be verified by guiness book of world record team. Can someone keep sangat updated when this happens?