Harbhajan Singh Mann (born 30 December 1965) is an

Indian-Canadian Indian Canadians are Canadians who have ancestry from India. The terms ''Indo-Canadian'' or ''East Indian'' are sometimes used to avoid confusion with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Categorically, Indian Canadians comprise a subgroup of ...

singer, actor and film producer associated with

Punjabi music Music of Punjab ( Punjabi: پنجاب دی موسیقی ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦਾ ਸੰਗੀਤ ) reflects the traditions of the Punjab region of the Subcontinent, with East Punjab in India, and West Punjab in Pakistan. The Punjab has diverse ...

and

cinema Cinema may refer to: Film * Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography * Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image ** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking ...

. His movies include ''

Jee Aayan Nu ''Jee Ayan Nu'' ( en, Welcome) is a Punjabi drama film, released on 8 November 2002. It stars Harbhajan Mann in the lead role with Priya Gill. It was directed by Manmohan Singh. It is one of the first most successful movie in Punjabi cinema, ...

(2002)'', ''Asa Nu Mann Watnan Da (2004)'', ''Heer Ranjha (2009)'' and ''

Jag Jeondeyan De Mele ''Jag Jeondeyan De Mele'' is a Punjabi movie, released in India on 20 February 2009, directed by Baljit Singh Deo and produced by Harbhajan Mann, Kulwinder Sanghera, Baljinder Sanghera, Gulzar Inder Chahal, Surinder Sanghera. The title is bas ...

(2009)''.

Career

Mann was born in the Khemuana village, located in the

Bathinda Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bathinda District. It is located in northwestern India in the Malwa Region, west of the capital city of Chandigarh and is the fifth l ...

district of

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. He is of

Sikh Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Gu ...

origin. Mann began singing as an amateur in 1980, and performed in local shows for the South Asian community while attending high school in Canada. His beginnings as a professional artist can be traced to 1992, while he was in

. Mann realized that the market for Punjabi music in Canada was small, and he returned to Punjab to record his albums. Mann had a breakthrough in 1999, when exposure provided by India MTV and T-Series for his ''Oye Hoye'' album. His was a Punjabi-pop style and he soon undertook

playback singing A playback singer, also known as a ghost singer, is a singer whose singing is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras; the actual singer does not app ...

roles. The playback work led to acting roles and Mann has become a prominent figure in the revitalisation of

Punjabi cinema Punjabi cinema, sometimes Metonymy, metonymously referred to as Pollywood or Punjwood is the Punjabi language, Punjabi-language film industry centered around the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab, and based in Amritsar and Mohali. The ci ...

. He has starred and produced in seven movies – ''Ji Aayan Nu'', ''Asa Nu Mann Watna Da'', ''

Dil Apna Punjabi ''Dil Apna Punjabi'' (English: ''Our Heart is Punjabi'') is a Punjabi feature film. It was released on 3 September 2006. It stars Harbhajan Mann, Neeru Bajwa and Dara Singh. The film was produced by Kumar S. Taurani and Ramesh S. Taurani, wri ...

'', ''Mitti Wajaan Mardi'', ''

Mera Pind-My home ''Mera Pind'' (English: ''My village'') is a Punjabi film released on 20 September 2008, directed and produced Manmohan Singh. The film stars Harbhajan Mann, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Kimi Verma and Gurpreet Ghuggi. Plot Mera Pind is the story ...

'', ''Jag Jeondiyan De Mele'' and his most recent movie, ''Heer Ranjha''. On 2 January 2013, he released ''Satrangi Peengh 2,'' in collaboration with his brother, Gursewak Mann. Harbhajan Mann said that he wants to create music that will live for decades. In 2013, Mann acted in ''Hanni,'' which was directed by Amitoj Maan. The two collaborated again in ''Gaddar – The Traitor'', which was released on 29 May 2015. Harbhajan Mann released his single "Delhi '84" in 2014, for which the music has been given by

Sukshinder Shinda Sukshinder Shinda (born Sukshinder Pal Singh Bhullar, Punjabi: ਸੁਖਸ਼ਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੁੱਲਰ) is a British-Indian playback singer-songwriter and bhangra Record producer from Handsworth in Birmingham, England. Since ...

Discography

Religious

Guest appearances

Filmography

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, Harbhajan Living people Indian people Punjabi people Indian Sikhs Indian emigrants to Canada Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian people of Punjabi descent Canadian Sikhs Canadian musicians of Indian descent Punjabi-language singers Male actors in Punjabi cinema People from Bathinda 1965 births Bhangra (music) musicians