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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Gurmeet Bawa
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| birth_name = Gurmeet Kaur
| alias =
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1944}}
| birth_place = Kothe, [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], British India
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| genre = [[Music of Punjab|Punjabi folk]]
| occupation = Singer
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| years_active = 1968–present
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| associated_acts = Kirpal Singh Bawa (singer, husband)
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'''Gurmeet Bawa''' is an Indian [[Punjabi language]] folk singer.<ref name="ti">{{cite news | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080809/aplus1.htm#5 | title=Shiromani Gayika award for Bawa | date=8 August 2008 | work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] | accessdate=10 May 2012 | location=Amritsar}}</ref> She is known for her long ''hek'' (English: breathless opening of a Punjabi folk song calling "ho") that she can holds for about 45 seconds.<ref name="pt">{{cite news | url=http://punjabitribuneonline.com/2011/10/%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%80-%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%95-%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%80-%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE-%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A4-%E0%A8%AC/ | title=ਲੰਮੀ ਹੇਕ ਦੀ ਮਲਿਕਾ ਗੁਰਮੀਤ ਬਾਵਾ | date=1 October 2011 | agency=[http://punjabitribuneonline.com The Punjabi Tribune] | accessdate=10 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="ao">{{cite web|url=http://www.apnaorg.com/articles/tribune-57/|title=Folk flavour|work=An article from [[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|publisher=apnaorg.com|accessdate=10 May 2012}}</ref> She is one of the singers known for singing [[Jugni]] after the (late) Alam Lohar and was the first Punjabi female singer to sing on [[Doordarshan]].<ref name=pt/>

== Early life ==

Bawa was born as Gurmeet Kaur in 1944, to father [[Sardar|S.]] Uttam Singh and mother Ram Kaur,<ref name=pt/> in the village of Kothe in [[British Punjab]]. The villages is now a part of [[Gurdaspur district]]<ref name=ti/> of [[Indian Punjab]]. Her mother left the world when she was only two years old.<ref name=pt/> At that time, girls were not allowed to study even go out without elders permission but Bawa, who dreamt to be a teacher passed her J.B.T. and became the first girl of the area to be a teacher.<ref name=pt/>

She is married to Kirpal Bawa,<ref name=ti/> a Punjabi folk singer and the couple is blessed with three daughters and of which two, Lachi Bawa and Galori Bawa, are singers.<ref name=ti/><ref name=pt/>

== Career ==

She started her career in 1968.<ref name=ti/> Her husband Kirpal Singh Bawa encouraged her a lot. She always sings with the [[Folk Instruments of Punjab|Punjabi folk instrument]] like [[Algoze]], [[Chimta]], [[Dholki]] and [[Tumbi]]. She amazed the audience during a function organized by the Punjab Association in [[Mumbai]] and got a standing ovation by the [[Bollywood]] stars like [[Prem Chopra]], [[Pran (actor)|Pran]] and especially [[Raj Kapoor]] who repeatedly requested for a boli, ''main jatti Punjab di, meri Nargis wargi akh''.<ref name=ao/> She has been performed overseas.<ref name=ti/> She represented India during the festival of India organized in the [[USSR]] in 1987 and Japan in 1988.<ref name=ti/> She also performed at Thailand Culture Center in [[Bangkok]] in 1988 and also represented the country in the Bosra festival and the 25th Jashan-E-Azadi festival in [[Tripoli]] ([[Libya]]) in 1989.<ref name=ti/>

== Awards ==

Her awards including the ''State Award'' by the [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] government in 1991,<ref name=ti/> ''Sangeet Puraskar'' by the Punjab Natak Akademi, the national ''Devi Ahillya Award'' by the [[Madhya Pradesh]] government in 2002 and recently ''Shromani Gayika Award'' by the Punjabi language department in 2008.<ref name=ti/><ref name=pt/><ref name="pt2">{{cite news | url=http://punjabitribuneonline.com/2010/12/%e0%a8%b0%e0%a8%b5%e0%a8%be%e0%a8%87%e0%a8%a4%e0%a9%80-%e0%a8%97%e0%a8%be%e0%a8%87%e0%a8%95%e0%a9%80-%e0%a8%a8%e0%a9%82%e0%a9%b0-%e0%a8%b8%e0%a9%b0%e0%a8%ad%e0%a8%be%e0%a8%b2%e0%a8%a3-%e0%a8%a6/ | title=ਰਵਾਇਤੀ ਗਾਇਕੀ ਨੂੰ ਸੰਭਾਲਣ ਦੀ ਲੋੜ | date=25 December 2010 | agency=[http://punjabitribuneonline.com The Punjabi Tribune] | accessdate=10 May 2012}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Narinder Biba]]
*[[Surinder Kaur]]
*[[Alam Lohar]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Punjabi-language singers]]
[[Category:Performers of Sikh music]]
[[Category:Punjabi people]]
[[Category:People from Gurdaspur district]]
[[Category:Indian Sikhs]]
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[[Category:1944 births]]

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