Daler Mehndi - Topic

Daler Mehndi is India’s coveted Pop Icon, the country’s celebrated Live Performer credited as the pioneer of Indian Pop Music. Mehndi is a prolific songwriter, composer, musician, environmentalist and philanthropist. Born into a family of Gurbani singers, Daler began performing on stage with his father at the age of 5. He ran away from home at the age of 14 to seek training in the classical Indian vocal tradition from the Late Ustad Rahat Ali Khan of Patiala Gharana in Gorakhpur, UP.

Endowed with a distinctive, perfect pitched voice and a pugnacious spirit his 1995 breakthrough album Bolo To Ra Ra went double- platinum and created a new genre that came to be labeled Indipop, in a country hooked onto film music. His every consecutive album broke the records of its predecessors and the country got their dance anthems in the form of Dardi Rab Rab, Balle Balle, Har Taraf Tera Jalwa. His fourth consecutive chart toping epic album Tunak Tunak Tun is probably the greatest grosser in non- film music in India to this day. India’s first green technology video to become an Internet phenomena and the song that became an anthem worldwide and also got adopted by the World of Warcraft community.

His extensive body of work across genres starting with Bhangra POP, to Sufi, Gurbani and bhakti to films and the Stage (Live Performances) have earned him many titles like the Voice of Entertainment, Messiah Of Masti, Sardar of Swing, King of Pop, He is all that He Is Bigger Than The Beatles.”