[5] Sukhmani Malik was born in New Delhi and grew up in Chandigarh, listening to folk songs and Sufi music.
[1] In a 2013 interview in The Hindu, Malik explained their choice of genre, "The idea was to do old folk songs, because the new generation doesn’t hear them.
[9] Their style is minimal in contrast to the usual modern renditions, and Singh explained in an interview: "Bhangra is a very new thing.
"[5] Hari and Sukhmani produced the folk song Kangi Bawan for director Deepa Mehta's 2008 film Heaven on Earth.
[13] The duo have collaborated with folk musicians from India and abroad, including morchang player Chugge Khan, Indian percussionist and composer Trilok Gurtu, Vietnamese classical guitarist Thu Le, Iranian percussionist Fakhroddin Ghaffari, singer Suman Sridhar, and Arshad Khan, who plays esraj, a stringed instrument from the Bengal region.