Happy Birthday Guru Randhawa: Here Are Some Lesser Known Facts About Him

Guru Randhawa is one of the most versatile artists of the Punjabi music industry. He is a songwriter, singer, music composer, and he recently turned producer for an upcoming Punjabi film. The singer is celebrating his 28^th birthday today, on August 30.

Guru is known for crooning songs like ‘Lahore’, ‘Patola’, ‘High Rated Gabru’, ‘Suit’, among others. Here are some lesser known facts about the singer to know on his birthday!

Guru was born as Gursharanjot Singh Randhawa in Gurdaspur district of Punjab on August 30, 1991.

He started his singing career by singing for some small shows in Gurdaspur, and then started singing for parties and functions in Delhi.

 

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Travelling makes me smile more ❤️?

A post shared by Guru Randhawa (@gururandhawa) on Aug 27, 2019 at 3:09am PDT

While Guru stayed in Delhi to build a career in singing, he completed his MBA.

He was named ‘Guru’ by rapper Bohemia to shorten his name on stage.

 

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Last night I performed with black kurta pyjama in Manchester ?? #Jattvibes THANKYOU for making it so massive.

A post shared by Guru Randhawa (@gururandhawa) on Jun 16, 2019 at 2:37am PDT

He made history as his song ‘Lahore’ fetched over 700 million views on YouTube and became one of the most viewed Punjabi songs on YouTube in India.

Guru then, made history by collaborating for a song named ‘Slowly Slowly’ with American rapper Pitbull, and making it one of the world's all-time most-viewed music videos in 24 hours by fetching over 38 million views in less than 24 hours.

 

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Love the train and the colour ?

A post shared by Guru Randhawa (@gururandhawa) on May 20, 2019 at 10:58pm PDT

He is soon going to make his debut in the Punjabi film industry as a producer for the film 'Tara Mira'.

 

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Proudly announcing my first film as a producer Title #TARAMIRA starring @ranjitbawa , Nazia Hussain @ghuggigurpreet @realsudeshlehri Writtena nd Directed by @rajivkumardhingra RAJIV DHINGRA @751films Rapa Nui’s Films Screenplay by @dheerajrattan @taranadarsh ??

A post shared by Guru Randhawa (@gururandhawa) on Jun 30, 2019 at 5:47am PDT

We wish Guru a very happy birthday!