Jasleen Royal

Jasleen Kaur Royal[1] is an Indian singer,[2] songwriter and composer who sings in Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati as well as in English.

She received this award for her debut song "Panchi Ho Jaava", composed and sung by Jasleen which is based on a poem by the Punjabi-language poet, Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

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 written by Amitabh Verma.

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 at the age of 18.

She was amicably called as 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.