Yo Yo Honey Singh

Hirdesh Singh (born 15 March 1983), better known by his stage name Yo Yo Honey Singh or Honey Singh is an Indian rapper, music producer, singer and film actor. He started his career as a recording artist, and became a Bhangra producer. He has also produced music for Bollywood films, and has now became one of the highest-paid music producers in Bollywood. He is among those singers who introduced hip hop music and rap culture in India.

                        Honey Singh was born on 15 March 1983 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab in a Sikh family. His birth name is Hirdesh Singh. He has studied music at the Trinity School in the United Kingdom.Later on, his family moved to New Delhi. He is married to Shalini Talwar Singh, whom he first time introduced in the show India's Raw Star T.V show.

 

with wife Shalini on Raw Star

 

Career  

Honey Singh has received ETC award for the Best sound in 2006 for his song Glassi and the PTC award for the Best Folk Pop Award 2009 for his album Rebirth and PTC Punjab Best Music Director 2011. Honey Singh and Diljit Dosanjh's song 'Lak 28 Kudi da' reached no.1 in BBC Asian Download charts in May 2011. the song was released as a promotional ytack for Diljit's movie "Lion of Punjab."

                    Yo! Yo! Honey Singh tops the chart of trending videos of 2012. He earns two places on YouTube's list of top 10 trending videos of 2012. His song Brown Rang makes it to top spot and High Heels, in collaboration with Jaz Dhami, takes fourth spot.  

 

  

 Honey Singh prefers to sing in his native language Punjabi and Hindi rather than English. His Punjabi album International Villager was released on 11 November 2011.The track "Gabru" from that album featuring singer J-Star topped Asian music charts (including the official BBC Asian charts).

Bollywood

Honey Singh has also become widely popular in Bollywood. He was first noticed after his debut song in a Bollywood film featuring Gagan Sidhu for the film Shakal Pe Mat Ja. He has also charged Rs. 7 million for a song in an upcoming film titled Mastaan starring Naseerudin Shah. It was the biggest amount paid to a song artist in Bollywood till date, making Honey Singh one of the highest-paid musical artist in Bollywood. A song named  Angreji Beat from Honey Singh's album International Villager with Gippy Grewal was also featured in Saif Ali Khan's movie Cocktail.

                  He rose to high fame and popularity in Bollywood in late 2013, after producing songs in mainstream big-budget films such as Chennai Express and Boss. He also has popular songs in smaller-budget films such as Mere Dad Ki Maruti, Bajatey Raho & Fugly. In late 2014, Honey Singh suddenly disappeared and didn't release any music for months. Many theories rose about his sudden disappearance, but the majority were fake. In february 2015 came back with his song Birthday Bash with Alfaaz for the movie Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfriend.

                 Honey Singh released his first solo single “Satan” and it premiered on MTV India and due to huge popularity of this song MTV has decided to release Honey Singh's second solo single "Bring Me Back".

Acting

Honey Singh made his acting debut in Baljit Singh Deo's Punjabi film Mirza The Untold Story(2012), performing the role of Deesha, a mad gangster. Despite only being a cameo appearance, the role went on to win him PTC Punjabi Film Award for Best Male Debut. The next year, Honey Singh appeared in another Punjabi film, this time a Comedy film by Amit Prasher, Tu Mera 22 Main Tera 22, as Rolly, a childish and spoilt brat, alongside singer Amrinder Gill. This was his first lead role as an actor in a film.

                   Honey Singh has also acted in Bollywood films, making his debut with the 2014 musical-thriller film The Xpose alongside Himesh Reshammiya. The film was released on 16 May 2014, to mixed reviews from critics and became a box office flop. After a failed Bollywood acting debut, Honey Singh will be returning to Punjabi cinema in 2015, with the action film Zorawar, directed by Vinnil Markan.

Controversies

After the 2012 Delhi Gang Rape Case, the lyrics of some of his songs, which depict violence against women and rape positively have caused controversy. An FIR was lodged against rapper Honey Singh for his offensive lyrics by a group of social activists. They filed an online petition demanding cancellation of his New Year performance at Gurgaon. After the campaign, his New Year concert was cancelled by the hotel Honey Singh denies writing these offensive lyrics.

                   On 4 July 2013, Punjab and Haryana High court dismissed all the cases filed against Yo Yo Honey Singh, which said that he has sung the Balatkaari song. The FIR and the PIL filed against him were dismissed completely by the court stating that there is no proof that he has sung the song and YouTube is such a medium where any one can upload any content under anyone's name. In this case also, a song against women was uploaded on YouTube under Yo Yo Honey Singh's name by an anonymous person and then reports were filed against him.

                  Another controversy took place between him and Raftaar. They both were earlier a part of an urban musical group Mafia Mundeer formed by Honey Singh with Badshah. The controversy was of about Raftaar, not getting credits for lyrics of the song "Yeh Fugly Fugly Kya Hai".He also claims that songs Breakup Party and Dope Shope were also written by him.  The controversy went away without making a major effect. But both rappers started targeting each other in their songs. Raftaar's song "Swag Mera Desi" had a line which was already used in Honey Singh's "Party With The Bhoothnath" song. Honey Singh also replied with song "Stardom" from his album Desi Kalakaar.