Genre: Music > Punjabi

Paisa Paisa - Daddy Mix

Song

Paisa paisa

Name of the album

Daddy Mix

Video cast

Daler Mehndi

Babykorn

Daler Mehndi's has infused his Punjabi-Pop with Rababi singing, a traditional Sikh music style.

Artist Biography

Daler Mehndi was born and raised in Patna. He began singing at the age of six and was taught the ragas and Shabads from the 'Guru Granth Sahib' by his parents.

At the age of fourteen he spent three years refining his voice and learning the tabla, dholak, dhol, harmonium and tanpura from Raahat Ali Khan Saheb.

Daler Mehndi married in 1986 and has three children. Daler 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 ghazals, inspired by the poets Qateel Shifai and Firaq Gorakhpuri.

In 1992 he was involved in a car accident that injured a jaywalking man. Mehndi was sued as a result of the mishap.

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