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About Harrdy Sandhu

Hardevinder Singh Sandhu was born on September 6, 1986 in Patiala, Punjab, India, into a Sikh family that supported his early cricket career through the Punjab age-group circuit. He played as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, represented Punjab at the Under-19 level, toured with the India Under-19 squad in the late 2000s, and pushed into the Ranji Trophy senior side before a chronic wrist injury — picked up during a domestic tournament and aggravated through multiple surgeries — ended the cricket career he had built his teenage years around. He pivoted to music in his early twenties, initially as a hobby and then formally through Speed Records, the Mohali-based Punjabi-music label that has launched a significant portion of the contemporary Punjabi-pop industry. His debut single Tequila Shot, released in 2013 through Speed Records, established the production template — Punjabi-pop hooks layered over hip-hop-inflected beat work — that would carry through the rest of his catalogue. The 2014 single Soch, written and composed by Hardy Sandhu himself with lyrics by Jaani and production by B. Praak (the long-time collaborative trio that has defined a significant share of his hit material), was the first track to cross the Punjabi-diaspora audience into mainstream Indian rotation, and was reworked in 2016 for the Bollywood film Airlift with Akshay Kumar as Soch Na Sake (renamed for the film soundtrack), which gave Hardy his first formal Bollywood crossover and pulled his profile into Hindi-language mainstream visibility. The 2016 single Joker, also written by Jaani and produced by B. Praak, extended the Punjabi-pop catalogue, and Hornn Blow that same year continued the rotation. Naah, released in 2017 with Nora Fatehi in the music video, became the breakout of his career — the first Hardy Sandhu video to cross one hundred million YouTube views and the track that secured his place as a Punjabi-pop A-lister, with the Naah Goriye sequel cut for the 2019 Bollywood film Bala extending the franchise into Hindi-mainstream rotation. Backbone (2017), Kya Baat Ay (2018), Hornn Blow, and a steady run of Punjabi-pop singles followed through the late 2010s, anchoring his place on the Speed Records roster and on the broader Punjabi-pop touring circuit. The 2020 single Titliaan, recorded with Afsana Khan and featuring Sargun Mehta in the music video, crossed the two-hundred-million-view threshold on YouTube within months of release and triggered the Titliaan Warga sequel cut — together one of the most-watched Punjabi music releases of the streaming era. Bijlee Bijlee, released in 2021 with Palak Tiwari in the video and produced by B. Praak with lyrics by Jaani, extended that streak; the 2022 Kya Baat Hai 2.0 cut for the Bollywood film Govinda Naam Mera (with Vicky Kaushal) gave Hardy his most prominent Bollywood-soundtrack placement to date. Alongside the music catalogue, his acting career opened with the 2021 release of 83, Kabir Khan's biographical film on India's 1983 Cricket World Cup victory, in which Hardy played fast bowler Madan Lal alongside Ranveer Singh's Kapil Dev — a casting choice that drew directly on his own cricket background and pulled him into a Bollywood acting cycle that subsequent projects have continued to develop. He has remained based primarily in India between tours and recording sessions, with his wife, dentist Zenith Sidhu, whom he married in 2020. The catalogue continues through new single releases on Speed Records and direct-to-streaming Punjabi-pop drops, with international touring concentrated on Punjabi-diaspora corridors in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Gulf states, and continental Europe.

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