Kulwinder Dhillon

August 13, 2010

Kulwinder Dhillon

Punjabi Singer ~ Kulwinder Dhillon

Years active 1998 - 2005

Kulwinder Dhillon was born in 1975. He belonged to village Pandori Ladha Singh near town Mahilpur of district Hoshiarpur. He was a celebrated Punjabi singer who had earned international fame through his execution of Indi pop. He has been considered as the most gifted musicians of the modern Bhangra era. He is best known for his outstanding extemporization and style of Bhangra. Kulwinder Dhillon, was an award-winning, internationally famous popular Indian singer. He died at the age of 32 in a car accident on 19 March, 2006, Phagwara-Banga road, near Behram village, Punjab.

Career

Kulwinder Dhillon stepped into the world of music with his first music inductive album, Kacheriyan Ch Mele Lagde. The album contains the popular song Boliyan that received quite an amount of airplay on the radios. Kulwinder Dhillon started his career with his debut album Kacheriyan Ch Mele Lagde that had the hit song, Boliyan which got a lot of airplay on the radios. Dhillon made his career with his third, smash hit album Akhara in 2003 that had made waves in India, and still is. The most popular song on the album was Kalli Kite Mil.

Kalli Kite Mil made Dhillon widely popular as he was mistaken at times for Surjit Bindrakhia with the particular tune. He later released Velli in 2005 that had just built upon his success with his previous album. It became an instant hit and had music videos for almost every song. The album was enjoyed by all throughout the world and nothing had to be changed to appeal to the international crowd. Most of the lyrics he sang for the albums were by Balvir Boparai who is famous for his album Hostel. Another album, Jatt Driver Fauji was released by Dhillon. The album comprises some of his new and popular tracks. Mashooq and Glassi Khadke are some other albums recorded by him.