Guru Randhawa

Gursharanjot Singh Randhawa (born 30 August 1991) is an Indian singer, songwriter and music composer associated with Punjabi, Bhangra, Indi-pop and Bollywood music.

He is known for songs like "Lahore", "Ishare Tere", "Slowly Slowly", and "Tere Te".

Guru Randhawa's debut song was "Same Girl" in collaboration with Arjun.

Gursharanjot Singh Randhawa was born on 30 August 1991, in Noorpur, Dera Baba Nanak tehsil, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India.

He started by doing small shows in Gurdaspur and then began performing in Delhi, at small parties and functions.

While staying in Delhi, Randhawa completed his MBA.

He was named "Guru" by the rapper Bohemia who would shorten his full name while on stage.

Randhawa started his music journey in December 2012 with a song named "Same Girl" with Arjun who was the first person to take Randhawa in his own video.

However, the song was not so successful for both artists.

At the beginning of 2013, Randhawa released his first single named "Chhad Gayi" on YouTube with the label of Speed Records.

His elder brother, Ramneek helped him financially to release this song.

Later in 2013, he launched his first album Page One and released three songs from the album.

"Dardan Nu", "I Like You" and "Southall" were the respective songs.

Randhawa launched many songs but none of them became much popular to take Guru to heights.

2014 was also not special for him.

He released the remaining songs from the Page One album but did not get success.

The songs were "Khali Bottlan", "My Jugni", "Maa", "Na Na Na Na Na", "Pyaar Wale Test", "Modern Thumka", and "Billo On Fire".

Bohemia, who was a well-wisher of Randhawa, requested T-Series to launch the young artist on their channel.

Then they collaborated on the song "Patola".

This song gathered more than 368 Million views across YouTube.

"Patola" also got the award for best Punjabi Duo.

Further, he sang with Ikka Singh in the songs "Outfit" and "Khat".

In 2016, Randhawa gave four blockbuster songs.

He released "Yaar Mod Do" with Millind Gaba again on the label T-Series in January.

The motive of the project was to show true friendship and it did and collected more than 252 million YouTube views.

In April, Randhawa dropped the song "Tu Meri Rani" on his own YouTube channel.

This song also featured the rapper, Haji Springer.

One of his most popular songs, "Suit" was released in 2016.

It was Randhawa's second collaboration with Arjun.

It currently holds 478 million views on YouTube.

In September, he collaborated with Rajat Nagpal and released a song named Fashion on T-Series.

The song holds more than 254 million views on YouTube currently.

In 2017, Randhawa released an emotional track named "Taare" chocolate for Juhi in January.

The track performed average on YouTube but this song's video was trolled to be a copy of Zayn Malik's song "It's You".

Randhawa made his Bollywood singing debut in the Indian movie Hindi Medium.

His foot tapping track "Suit" was recreated in the film as "Suit Suit".

He sang in the 2017 Indian Premier League opening ceremony.

Later in 2017, his two tracks appeared in Bollywood movies.

His old track "Tu Meri Rani" was recreated in the Hindi film Tumhari Sulu and an original track named "Lagdi Hai Thaai" was also released in the movie Simran in collaboration with Jonita Gandhi.

His two most-viewed songs, "High Rated Gabru" and "Lahore", have over 1.1 billion and 1 billionviews on T-Series' official YouTube channel respectively.