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 Hard Kaur at the Forbidden City, Singapore, 2008
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Taran Kaur Dhillon |
| Born | 1979[1] |
| Origin | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, [2] India |
| Genres | Rap, hip hop, Bollywood music |
| Occupations | singer, playback singer |
| Years active | 1995- present |
Hard Kaur (born Taran Kaur Dhillon[3] in 1979), is an Indian rapper and hip hop singer, as well as playback singer in Hindi films; she is the first female Indian rapper [4], and the first female Punjabi rapper.
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Born Taran Kaur Dillon in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where her mother ran a small beauty parlour in the house [2]. She lost her father when she was just five years old during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the family beauty parlour was burnt. Subsequently she, her brother and her mother moved to Ludhiana to her maternal grandparents house, where they stayed for the next couple of years.
In 1991 her mother remarried an NRI and her family moved to Birmingham, England, where her mother started working and studying to eventually open a beauty salon, meanwhile she did her schooling [2]. After developing interest in hip-hop she started her musical career as a rapper. [5][6][7][8]
She first shot to fame with the song Ek Glassy, which was a huge hit. She broke to Bollywood fame in 2007, rapping for Sriram Raghavan's movie Johnny Gaddaar,'s song Paisa Phek (Move Your Body). Since then she has sung numerous songs in movies like Ugly Aur Pagli (‘Talli, main talli ho gayee'), Singh Is Kinng, Kismat Konnection, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. She also performed at Live Earth India, 2008. Her first solo album 'Supawoman' was released in 2007 [9][10].
Hard Kaur recently collaborated with Eminem's group D12 for her next album.[11]
She was a participant in the television dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, Season 3. In the semi-finals she was voted off the show [5].
Hard Kaur was featured on the Fall 2008 cover of Canada's ANOKHI Magazine, North America's award-winning mainstream South Asian glossy. Her music video "Bombay Deewana" was also screened at Deejay Ra's music video night in Toronto at the FILMI festival, North America's longest running South Asian film festival.
She will be the co-host of 'IPL Rockstar', a music reality show on Colours TV channel [12]. Also she is set to appear in upcoming 2010 film, Patiala House, directed by Nikhil Advani, wherein she plays the role of Akshay kumar's cousin [9].
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