Every sound.
Every name.
PMRS campaigns for the documentation, credit, and rights education Punjab's musicians have never had. Not a service. A fight.
Session musicians built Punjab's sound.
Credited once. Then forgotten.
Most contributing musicians are paid a single session fee, with no ongoing credit, royalties, or documented rights on the tracks they helped build.
Real, and still undocumented.
Traditional players, session musicians, and producers working across Punjab, with no shared record of who contributed what.
A record for every contributor.
We are building Punjab's first voluntary contributor registry, so a musician has documented proof of their work long before any dispute begins.
Signed before the song drops.
We are pushing simple contribution agreements into standard practice, so what a musician is owed is written down before release, not argued about after.
Full credit, every release.
We are campaigning for consistent, professional crediting of instrumentalists, producers, engineers, and vocalists on every track they touch.
Rights, taught plainly.
We run workshops on copyright, royalties, and contracts, for musicians who were never taught any of it in school.
Pressure where it counts.
We are taking musician rights directly to lawmakers, IPRS, PPL, and the industry itself, so grassroots contributors stop falling outside protections that already exist.
That search became a project reviving endangered instruments — and eventually, PMRS.
Recording those musicians revealed a deeper problem: their contributions were rarely documented, credited, or protected. PMRS was founded as an independent advocacy body to fight that problem directly.
Every hand on the record.
Needs listeners.
Centuries old, and still fighting to be heard.
Needs credit.
The hook everyone recognizes. The name nobody knows.
Needs documentation.
Rhythm without a record.
Needs recognition.
Built the sound. Rarely sees the credit.
Needs a name on the work.
Depth in every chorus, absent from every liner note.
Needs proof tradition can be a future.
Not just a memory.
Needed too.
Every campaign starts with someone who refuses to look away.
The work is already underway.
This is the start, not the ceiling.
Back the campaign.
Musicians, industry professionals, and cultural advocates: PMRS is built by the people it represents. Whether you play, sing, produce, or engineer, if you've put your hands on a Punjabi track, this fight is yours too.