His album song "Tunak Tunak Tun" is an Internet phenomenon. He has also been a guest star on the new Indian version of Sesame Street known as Galli Galli Sim Sim. His success helped him negotiate a record-breaking deal with his record company Magnasound for 20.5 million rupees. He has even appeared in the films Mrityudata and Arjun Pundit. He also earned Channel V's Best Male Pop Singer Award, which he also received in 1996 for Dar Di Rab Rab and in 1997 for Ho Jayegi Bale Bale. He received the Award for Voice of Asia International Ethnic and Pop Music Contest in 1994. Mehndi eventually switched from classical music to pop, and in 1995 his first album Bolo Ta Ra Ra, with tunes based on those given to him by his mother, sold half a million copies in four months and 20 million copies total, making him the best selling non-soundtrack album in Indian music history. Mehndi is well known as a philanthropist, funding beautification projects in Delhi and aiding quake victims.
His international popularity has grown in recent years allowing him to tour the United States. Since 1995 he has recorded several highly successful albums in India, and also sung in several Bollywood movies. Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in India. Ho Jayegi Balle Balle followed in 1999.Daler Mehndi, born August 18, 1967, is a bhangra/pop singer from India. The record also earned Mehndi the honor of Channel V's Best Male Pop Singer Award, a title he also earned for 1996's Dard Di Rab Rab and 1997's Ho Jayegi Bale Bale appearances in the films Mrityudata and Arjun Pundit further expanded his enormous popularity, and he began playing sell-out performances across the globe. Gradually he turned away from classical music toward pop, however, and in 1995 became a superstar when his debut album Bolo Ta Ra Ra sold over half a million copies within four months of its release on its way to becoming the best-selling non-soundtrack album in Indian chart history.
After years of intense training, Mehndi mounted his professional career, initially singing ghazaals inspired by the poetry of Qateel Shifai and Firaq Gorakhpuri. Punjabi pop sensation Daler Mehndi was born and raised in Benares, North India he began singing at the age of five, and at 14 left home to study with his uncle, Raahat Ali Khan Saheb, honing not only his vocal skills but also learning the tabla, harmonium and tanpura.
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