
It is the biggest amount paid to a song artist in Bollywood to date, making Honey Singh one of the highest-paid musical artist in Bollywood.Īlso, a song named Angreji Beat from Honey Singh's album International Villager featuring Gippy Grewal, was featured in Saif Ali Khan's film Cocktail. 7 million for a song in an upcoming film titled Mastaan starring Naseeruddin Shah. He was first noticed after his debut song in a Bollywood film featuring Gagan Sidhu for the film Shakal Pe Mat Ja. Honey Singh has also become widely popular in Bollywood. He learned DJing from DJ Vishal and stood second in "War of DJs" He has performed at many college festivals including at Ansal Institute of Technology and Ramjas College, Delhi. The track Gabru from International Villager featuring singer J-Star topped Asian music charts (including the official BBC Asian charts)

The Punjabi album International Villager was released on 11 November 2011 (11-11-11). It is reported that Honey Singh prefers to sing in his native language Punjabi and Hindi rather than English. His song Brown Rang makes it to top spot and High Heels, in collaboration with Jaz Dhami, takes fourth spot. He earns two places on YouTube's list of top 10 trending videos of 2012.

Yo! Yo! Honey Singh tops the chart of trending videos of 2012. It has been reported that he has been paid the highest fee ever for a Bollywood song (as of 2012) of INR7 million (US$110,000) for a song in the films "Cocktail" and "Mastan". Honey Singh has received the ETC award for the Best sound in 2006 for his song Glassi and the PTC award for the Best Folk Pop Award 2009 for Rebirth and PTC Punjab Best Music Director 2011. The song was released a promotional track for Diljit Dosanjh's film Lion of Punjab. Honey Singh and Diljit Dosanjh's song Lak 28 Kudi Da reached No 1 in BBC Asian Download Charts in May 2011.

Honey Singh is married to Shalini Talwar Singh, whom he introduced to audience for first time on India's Raw Star TV show. He studied music at the Trinity School in the United Kingdom. Singh was born in a Sikh family at Hoshiarpur, Punjab.
