Miss Pooja

Miss Pooja
Miss Pooja at Canada's Wonderland (2009)
Background information
Birth name	Gurinder Kaur Kainth
Born	December 4, 1980 (1980-12-04) (age 30)
Genres	Bhangra, Folk, Religious, Hip Hop
Occupations	Singer, Actress
Years active	2006-present
Associated acts	Geeta Zaildar, Manjit Rupowalia, Preet Brar, Rai Jujhar, Roshan Prince
Website	http://www.misspooja.org

Miss Pooja (Punjabi: ਮਿਸ ਪੂਜਾ (Gurmukhi), مِس پُوجا (Shahmukhi), मिस पूजा (Devanagari)) is an Indian singer. She was born on 4 December 1980 as Gurinder Kaur Kainth. Before she embarked on her professional singing career, she received a Master's degree in music and worked as a music teacher in Patel Public School in Rajpura, India. She chose Miss Pooja as her professional name because "Pooja" was her childhood nickname.

She is widely regarded as having revived Punjabi duet songs. During the late 1980s to the early 21st century, Punjabi duet songs were often given second place by DJs. However, Miss Pooja's duets often get played at the top of the party. She has become the largest-selling female bhangra artist in India and overseas. A partial reason for her success is the rapid increase in the number of songs that she continues to record. She has released duets with more than 70 different male singers.

Career

Miss Pooja started her career with Darshan Khella and released the album Jaan to Piyari; it was released in January 2006. Since then she has recorded duets with other artists on over 2,000 songs and released over 350 albums.^[1]

Miss Pooja toured the United States in 2006. In 2007 a Miss Pooja live session was broadcast in the UK on BBC Asian Network. In 2008 she toured the United Kingdom with Canadian bhangra singer Jazzy B.

In 2009 Miss Pooja won Best International Act at the UK Asian Music Awards.^[2]

In 2010 she won Best International Album for her album Romantic Jatt.^[3]

In 2011 she was nominated for Tanveer Dhami's International Act and Best International Album (for Panjaban)^[4] and ended up winning Best International Act.

Personal Life

Miss Pooja is from the Sikh religion, and belongs to the Nirankari religious sect.

Discography (Solo)

Year	Album	Record label
2011	Locking better the detentions[citation needed]	Kamlee Records LTD/Planet Recordz/Speed Records
2011	The Miss Pooja Project: Volume 2	Underground/ParasiteDARK Records
2010	Golden Girl	Goyal Music
2010	The Miss Pooja Project: Volume 1	Underground/ParasiteDARK Records
2009	Romantic Jatt	MovieBox/Planet Recordz/R&P Records/Speed Records
2008	Miss Pooja in Desi Mood	Goyal Music
2008	Miss Pooja Top 10 All Time Hits Vol. 5	Simran Music Industries
2008	Miss Pooja: Live in Concert	Speed Records
2008	On Full Speed 2	Goyal Music
2007	Queen of Duets	Lucky Star
2007	Top 10 All Time Hits	Simran Music Industries

Duo Collaboration

Year	Album
2011	Don't Touch Me with Lucky Rureke Jugni with Ranjit Teji Touch Karda with Dharmvir Thandi Nagni with Shami Samplay Hathiyaar with Shinda Shonki Good Morning with Davinder Brar Dildaar with Jaspal Maan
2010	Pajero with Veer Sukhwant Pind Wal Gera with K. Kashmir Jeep with Harry Mirza Dafa Hoja with Foji Ruttan with Bai Amarjit
2009	Mitran Di Vaari with Pulla Labhna Prince N Pooja with Roshan Prince Oh Kudi with Juglee J Saadgi with Rai Jujhar Doriya with Kuldeep Rasila Wrong Number with Gurvinder Brar Homegrown with Punjabi by Nature Pub Te Club with Preet Brar
2008	Poodna Returns with Preet Brar
2007	Hero with Bai Amarjit Patrol 2 with Preet Brar
2006	Ke Tere Karke with Preet Brar Safari with Kuldeep Rasila

Religious

Year	Album	Record label
2011	Guru Arjan Dev Ji[citation needed]	T-Series
2010	Satgur Hoye Dayal	T-Series
2010	Kurbaniyaan	T-Series
2010	Saare Kar Lou Eka Begumpura Vasauna	T-Series
2008	Nimaneya Di Laaj	T-Series
2008	Ek Onkar	T-Series

Filmography

Year	Film	Label
2011	Kurri Patole Wargi[citation needed]	Music Waves
2010	Kabaddi Once Again (playback singer)	T-Series
2010	Channa Sachi Muchi	Tips
2010	Panjaban: Love Rules Hearts	Eros

See also

• List of Punjabi singers
• Music of Punjab

References

1. ^ Sembhi, Jas. "Miss Pooja tours UK". Desiblitz. http://www.desiblitz.com/content/miss-pooja-tours-uk. Retrieved 2009-01-10. 
2. ^ Sehmbi, Jas (2009-03-05). "UK Asian Music Awards 2009 Winners". DESIblitz. http://www.desiblitz.com/content/uk-asian-music-awards-2009-winners. Retrieved 2010-01-13. 
3. ^ "BBC - Asian Network - BBC Asian Network AMA 2010 - Winners". bbc.co.uk. http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/events/ama2010/winners/. Retrieved 24 August 2010. 
4. ^ "Jay Sean, Mumzy Stranger and Miss Pooja Nominated at the 2011 UK AMAs - on desihits.com". desihits.com. http://www.desihits.com/news/view/2011-uk-ama-nominations-20110202. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 

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