Jasleen Royal

Biography

Jasleen Kaur Royal, known professionally as Jasleen Royal, is an Indian singer, songwriter, and composer who sings in Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati as well as in English. She has received many awards and nominations including a Filmfare Award. 

In 2022, she became the first female music director in history to win the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for the film Shershaah (2021) and shared the award with the four other composers who were involved in the film.

She won an award for Best Indie Song at the MTV Video Music Awards India 2013. She received this award for her debut song "Panchi Ho Jaava", composed and sung by Jasleen which is based on a poem by late Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

She won an award for the "Best Indie Artist" at "Free The Music" an initiative by Songdew especially for Indie musicians. She was nominated alongside established and renowned singers like Kailash Kher, Rabbi Shergill, and a Delhi-based band Indus Creed.

She entered Bollywood in September 2014 with Sonam Kapoor and Fawad Khan starrer film Khoobsurat with a song titled "Preet" which was composed by Sneha Khanwalkar and penned by Amitabh Verma.

Koi mane prem sikhvado (gujrati film) gajab thai gayo | co singer (aditya gadhvi)

Kaur completed her schooling at Sacred Heart Convent School, Ludhiana, and later moved to New Delhi for further studies. She completed her B. Com Honors from Hindu College, New Delhi.

With no formal training in music, majorly self-taught, Jasleen first gained popularity when she qualified as one of the semi-finalists in the first season of India's Got Talent in 2009. She was of 18 years of age at that time.

 She stood out because of her ability to play multiple instruments at the same time. She was amicably called the 'one woman band' by the then judges Sonali Bendre, Kirron Kher, and Shekhar Kapur for she can collectively play the guitar, mouth organ, flute, and a tambourine while singing. 

She can also play the keyboard, which also happens to be the first instrument she ever played. She currently resides in Mumbai and is working on multiple Bollywood projects.