Byg Byrd
Biography
Maninder Singh Kalyan, professionally known as Byg Byrd is an Indo-Canadian record producer and record executive. He is also associated with Punjabi music. He produced for a variety of artists notably French Montana, Chinx Drugz, Lil Kim, Lil Durk, and Jim Jones, along with Punjabi artists including Sidhu Moose Wala, Tarsem Jassar, Sunny Malton, Jazzy B, and Prem Dhillon.
He rose to the mainstream with his tracks ‘So High’ and 'Issa Jatt' with Sidhu Moose Wala. He is also the co-founder of Brown Boys, which he founded with rapper Sunny Malton (left in 2021).
Byg Byrd started making music within the hip-hop scene which eventually led him to work on the song “100” in 2012, which featured French Montana, Cheeze, and Chinx Drugz in the Coke Boys 3 album. He also worked on the song "Soulful" which featured French Montana and Lil Durk in Coke Boys 4.
In August 2017, Byrd and Moosewala released "So High" which became their most successful track. He can also be seen throughout the music video along with Sunny Malton, which was shot in Toronto.
In 2017, Byrd produced "Just Listen" by Sidhu Moosewala. The song managed to reach 12th in the UK Asian Charts. Other significant Byrd collaborations and features include "East Side Flow" (2019), "Sidhu's Anthem" (2019), Forget About It (2019) "Chosen" (2019), "B-Town (2019)", "Hauli Hauli" (2019) and Homicide (2019) and "Never Fold" (2022).
Byrd also produced 3 songs on Moosewala's album, PBX 1 which debuted 66 on the Billboard Canadian Albums Chart. The album also reached the top spot on iTunes and became the top Indian Pop album.
In 2020, Byrd also collaborated with Punjabi legend, Jazzy B on the song ‘Putt Sardara De’
In 2022, Byrd collaborated with Happy Singh on the song "Ko Ni Tera Yaar".
