Karan Aujla

Karan Aujla (born 18 January 1997) is an Indian singer, lyricist, and rapper known for his work in Punjabi music. He is best known for the songs "Don't Look", "Chitta Kurta", "Don't Worry", "Hint", and "Sheikh". Ten of his singles as a lead artist have featured in UK Asian chart by Official Charts Company, while four have featured in Global YouTube music chart.

Early life

Aujla hails from Ghurala, Punjab, India.He was born on 18 January 1997 to father Balwinder Singh Aujla and mother Rajinder Kaur.His parents died when he was nine years old. He was raised by his sisters and uncle after his parents died.Thereafter he started writing songs. While studying in 9th standard, Aujla met Jassi Gill in a marriage ceremony and offered him the lyrics of the song Range, which Gill sang and became popular. Aujla received his Canadian permanent residency and emigrated there. He did his high school studies in Burnaby, Canada.Also, he worked part time as a longshoreman in Surrey, British Columbia.His debut song "Cell Phone" with Mac Benipal was released in 2014, it was a commercial failure, and had just a few thousand views. In Canada, he started working with Deep Jandu in his studio at Toronto.

Career

Aujla started his career along with Deep Jandu and Elly Mangat. He wrote lyrics for various artists including Gill, Mangat, Gagan Kokri, Jazzy B, Bohemia and Sukh-E. His written "Blessings of Bapu", sung by Kokri was well received by audience.Later in 2016, he released his debut song "Property Of Punjab" as a lead artist; started featuring and performing raps in the songs.Soon after, he released tracks as a lead artist. His recordings include "Alcohol 2", "Yaarian Ch Fikk", "Shit Talk", "Up & Down", and "Lafaafe". He finally got his breakthrough with the song "Don't Worry", featuring Gurlez Akhtar in it. The song's music video has been viewed over hundred million times on YouTube, and became Aujla's first song to enter UK Asian music chart.

life

In 2019, he was engaged to his girlfriend Palak.That year, he also got a tattoo of his mother's face on his right arm. He also has his father's tattoo too on the same arm. In June 2019, news channels stated that Aujla was attacked in Surrey, Canada on 8 June 2019. Later, a Punjab-based gang took responsibility of attack but later denied.On 9 June 2019, Aujla himself declared the news as rumour spread by news channels. However, other sources confirmed the attack. The gangster Sukhpreet Budda, who took responsibility for the attack was arrested by Interpol in November 2019 in Armenia.In March 2020, he got tattoos of freedom fighters Bhagat Singh and Udham Singh on his left arm. Aujla in an interview expressed his willingness to collaborate with an American rapper 50 Cent and Canadian rapper Drake.

Controversies

Aujla has a rivalry with Sidhu Moose Wala, both have been replying each other through their songs.Both the singers have been criticised for singing songs promoting violence. Elly Mangat, both Aujla and Sidhu then colleague in an interview disclosed that the dispute between two singers began when Sidhu's video targeting Aujla in his song was leaked to Aujla's management, and they threatened attacking Sidhu. Following the incident, both started targeting each other on social media.The rivalry was resolved temporarily till Karan Aujla released a diss-track "Lafaafe", followed by Moose Wala's "Warning Shot". Aujla in an interview stated that he didn't wrote the track "Lafaafe", and didn't revealed anything about their rivalry. In February 2020, Chandigarh Police advised him not to sing any of his song promoting violence, guns or drugs during.