Jasmine Kaur Sandlas (born 4 September 1985) is an American playback singer, television personality, performer, songwriter who mainly sings Punjabi songs.[1][3][4] Sandlas was born in Jalandhar, India and raised in Stockton, California. Sandlas's first song, "Muskan" (2008), became a hit. In 2014, she began her Bollywood playback singing career with the song "Yaar Na Miley" for the film Kick. Upon its release, "Yaar Na Miley" went viral, topped the charts, and earned Sandlas wide critical acclaim for her singing style. She also received several awards, including the "Most Popular Song of the Year 2016" "Most popular song of year 2016 – PTC Punjabi Film Awards" and Screen Award for Best Female Playback. She was also featured on the TEDx Talks, MTVCoke Studio and Spoken Word platforms.[5]
Jasmine Kaur Sandlas was born in 1985 in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, to a PunjabiSikh Labana family.[1][6] Her mother put her on stage to sing at an early age. During her school days she participated in many song competitions and then that was the time when she got influenced by many Punjabi folk singers. At the age of 12 or 13, she and her family migrated to California, where she was inspired by West Coast music.[7] She was only 16 when she began writing songs.[8][9]
Music career
Her first song, 'Muskan',[10] from the album 'The Diamond', written by Lalie Gill was great success worldwide.[11] In 2012, she did an album 'Gulabi' with rapper Bohemia.[7] After the launch of "Gulabi" album, she started receiving recognition from the mainstream Punjabi music industry. In 2015, Jasmine Sandlas was out with single Punjab De Javak. Jasmine's career began with underground album 'The Diamond' in 2008. Her Bollywood playback singing career began with Kick, for which she did the song called "Devil-Yaar Naa Miley" with Yo Yo Honey Singh.[12]
Jasmine has given two singles "Ishq Da Sutta" and "Raat Jashan Di" for the movies One Night Stand and Zorawar, respectively.
Jasmine is also part of the TV series on women-empowerment called Angels of Rock,[14][15] by MTV India. Jasmine along with three other artists biked from Mumbai to the Atarri border (travelling through Gujarat, Rajasthan, UP, Punjab along the way), covering places in rural as well as urban India. Along the way, they met some inspiring women who have scripted their own success stories in varied fields and are using their voice to speak up and discuss issues that urgently need attention. Each episode will also end with a special song. The first episode of season 1, aired on 31 July 2016.
2020: What's in a Name
In 2020, her third album What's in a Name was launched on Sandlas's own YouTube channel. The album was produced by Intense and Hark. The illustration was designed by Diksha and animation is done by VFX kalakaar.[16]
2021: The Great Punjabi Experiment
TGME was an experiment that Jasmine Sandlas started to observe if her predictions, about what kind of music people like, were right or wrong. It consisted of 9 songs. First Song "Gaana challe ya na" was released on 8 March 2021 whereas last song "Dil Tutteya" was released on 10 February 2022.[citation needed]
2022
Jasmine Sandlas released an EP called "Tini" on her birthday that included 4 songs: “Yakeen”, “Kehnda Hi Nahi”, “Hava Vich” and “Kehri Gali.”[17]
Sandlas released a single called "Jee Jeha Karda" on 7 November.[18]
2023
Jasmine's first project of the year was called "Jehri ve" which also had Gippy Grewal's vocals in it. The track was from the movie "mitraan da naa chalda" and came out on 30 January.
“Ittar", written by Jaani, was released on 7 March. B praak composed the music.
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