Madan Gopal Singh (b. 1950, Amritsar) has written and translated texts on cinema, art and cultural history. His doctoral dissertation is the first known semiotic study of some of the seminal texts from Indian cinema. He has taught English literature at Satyawati College, Delhi University and was a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. A singer of Sufi poetry, Singh has been part of films, such as Khayal Gatha (1989), Kasba (1991) and Idiot (1992) as a singer as well as Paradise on a River of Hell (2002), Khamosh Pani (2003) and The Song of Scorpions (2017) as a composer. He has travelled with Kurdo-Persian singer Shahram Nazeri to Iranian Sufi towns such as Isfahan, Hamadan and Kermanshah. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington (2002), he conducted 28 concerts, presentations and workshops. He often performs as part of the Chaar Yaar ensemble which includes guitarist Deepak Castelino, sarod player Pritam Ghosal and percussionist Amjad Khan.