Sandego.net – For Amrit Singh, the road to country music began far from a recording studio. While working customer support for a Canadian trail-camera company in Quebec, he regularly spoke with hunters, ranchers and farmers across rural America. Images sent from Texas, Tennessee and elsewhere showed broad green landscapes that brought him back to Punjab, India, where wheat fields shaped much of the scenery he knew growing up.

The calls often included casual conversation while equipment issues were resolved. Customers asked Singh about his life outside work, and he explained that he was a music producer involved in Canada’s active Punjabi music community. His work had already brought together Punjabi folk traditions with hip-hop rhythms and trap-influenced melodies. Yet he felt his own sound was still missing a key element.…