Hanjura was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family in the Kanipora locality of Srinagar in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India.
[4] Hanjura auditioned for the second season of television show Indian Idol when she was seventeen and was slated to appear on it as a contestant but says she did not because she believed the music industry was not a safe space for women at the time[5] and instead wanted to continue her education.
[6] In 2012, Hanjura founded a pop band called Sufistication, a play on the words Sufi and sophistication.
[5] The song was also used in a video by INC politician Rahul Gandhi during the Kashmir section of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in 2023.
[11] In 2019, she released two singles titled Dilbar Yuier Valo and Chalo Chinaro Ke Gharon, respectively in Kashmiri and Hindi.
[1] Apart from her mother tongue Kashmiri, she has also sung in other north Indian languages such as Dogri, Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu.