Pritam Bhartwan

Pritam Bhartwan is a folk singer from Uttarakhand, India.

In 2019, he was conferred the Padma Shri honour by the president of India, Ram Nath Kovind, for his contribution to the field of traditional folk art.

He began performing folk songs at the age of 13, along with his uncle.

[1] Jagar is a sacred vocal tradition generally sung to please the goddess or god or some time to worship nature in the form of humans and ancestors.

Bhartwan belongs to the sect of the special folk singer locally called as Jagariya.