Daler Mehndi
Daler Mehndi is a bhangra/pop singer from India. Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in India.
Since 1995 he has recorded several highly successful albums in India, and also sung in several Bollywood movies. His song “Tunak Tunak Tun” has helped to build his international popularity especially in the United States.
Mehndi is well known as a philanthropist, funding beautification projects in Delhi and aiding quake victims.
He began singing at age five and was taught the ragas and Shabad’s from the Guru Granth Sahib by his parents At age fourteen he spent three years refining his voice and learning the tabla, harmonium and tanpura from his uncle Raahat Ali Khan Saheb.]
Mehndi married in 1986 and currently has three children.Mehndi then moved to San Francisco, United States and worked as a cab driver before returning to India in 1991 and forming a band. Initially he sang ghazaals inspired by the poets Qateel Shifai and Firaq Gorakhpuri.[