Sidhu moose wala jacket

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Punjabi rapper Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, better known by his stage name Sidhu Moose Wala, was a rising artist in the South Asian music scene before he was fatally shot in India. The 28-year-old moved to Brampton, Ont., from India as an international student in 2016. A year later, he kick-started his music career when he released his first single on YouTube, with his Sidhu was born and raised in a village in the Mansa district of Punjab and obtained a degree in electrical engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Ludhiana before making his way to Canada to study at Humber College in Toronto, according to In his four-year music career as a full-time artist, the rapper became one of Punjab’s most popular and ubiquitous hip-hop artists, with his music often topping charts in India. “India has very few authentic modern artists. He was right on top of that list,” Indian singer Vishal Dadlani said on Twitter. Local police in India said Sidhu was killed on Sunday in a gang rivalry which may have ties to Canada, the Hindustan Times In June 2020, Sidhu’s song "Bambiha Bole” entered the top 50 in Canada on the Apple Music chart and topped the 2020 U.K.’s Asian charts. It also entered the top five of the The Guardian listed Sidhu as one of its Sidhu would rap about destruction, self-praise and rebellion in most of his songs, often citing his personal experiences as a Sikh from a low-income background when he was exposed to violence, drugs and guns in the state of Punjab. "Ho...