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Simar Kaur, born Simarjit Kaur on 24 September 1996 in Mohali, Punjab, is an Indian playback singer who has become one of the most recognisable female voices working across Punjabi music and Bollywood. Best known for the blockbuster "Dil Chori" with Yo Yo Honey Singh — and for reuniting with him nearly a decade later on the 2026 dance single …
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Who is Simar Kaur?
Simar Kaur, born Simarjit Kaur on 24 September 1996 in Mohali, Punjab, is an Indian playback singer who has become one of the most recognisable female voices working across Punjabi music and Bollywood. Best known for the blockbuster "Dil Chori" with Yo Yo Honey Singh — and for reuniting with him nearly a decade later on the 2026 dance single "Jawani Iraqi" — she has built a career defined by versatility, moving between film soundtracks, Punjabi pop and folk-rooted duets.
Early life and reality-show start
Kaur trained in Punjabi folk and classical singing through her school years in Mohali, citing Gurdas Maan, Kamal Khan and Diljit Dosanjh among her formative inspirations. Her talent showed early: in 2008, still a child, she won the first season of the Punjabi singing reality show Awaz Punjab Di, an early validation that pointed her toward a professional career.
Debut and first releases
Her professional recording career began in 2016 with the single "Gadbad", followed by duets such as "Munda Pyaar Karda" with Resham Singh Anmol and "Peg Day" with Shivjot — releases that established her as a dependable female lead in a Punjabi industry with relatively few prominent women's voices.
Dil Chori: the breakout
Everything changed with "Dil Chori" from the Bollywood film Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, her collaboration with Yo Yo Honey Singh. The song went stratospheric — crossing 200 million YouTube views within two months of release — and made her voice familiar to a pan-Indian audience. The performance won her a Mirchi Music Award in 2019, one of Indian music's most prestigious honours.
Bollywood and beyond
In 2020 she sang "Stranger" alongside Diljit Dosanjh under Yash Raj Films' music banner, confirming her place at the crossover point between the Punjabi and Hindi industries. Across her catalogue she has shown unusual range — folk inflections, nasal Punjabi pop registers, high-pitched hooks and rap-adjacent cadences — and she has performed over three hundred live shows.
Jawani Iraqi and the present
In June 2026 she reunited with Honey Singh on Jawani Iraqi, supplying the female vocal against his Hindi hook and Rawme Hooda's Haryanvi rap on one of the year's most-watched dance releases — a full-circle moment with the collaborator who first took her voice to a national audience.
Legacy in progress
Still in her twenties when "Dil Chori" exploded, Simar Kaur represents the generation of Punjabi female vocalists who came up through reality TV and streaming rather than the film-industry gatekeepers — and who now move freely between both worlds.
