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{{Short description|Indian rapper}}
{{EngvarB|date=November 2015}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Hard Kaur
| image = Hard Kaur at the BIG Entertainment Awards 2014 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Kaur in 2014
| birth_name = Taran Kaur Dhillon
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1979|07|29}}
| birth_place = [[Kanpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
| instruments =
| genre = [[Rap]], [[hip hop music|hip hop]], [[bollywood music]]
| years_active = 1995–present
| label = [[Sony Music]]
| associated_acts = [[Hiphop Tamizha]], Country Chicken
| website = {{URL|hardkaurworld.com/}}
}}

'''Taran Kaur Dhillon''' (born 29 July 1979), known by her stage name '''Hard Kaur''', is an Indian [[rapper]] and [[hip hop]] singer; as well as playback singer and actress in the [[Bollywood]] industry.<ref>{{cite news |title=An interview with rapper Hard Kaur |url=http://www.mid-day.com/specials/2009/mar/010309-Hard-Kaur-interview-rapper-female-rapper-London-Uk-Punjabi.htm |publisher=[[MiD DAY]]|date= 1 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-10-05/news-and-interviews/42719266_1_hard-kaur-rebel-mother |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006161423/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-10-05/news-and-interviews/42719266_1_hard-kaur-rebel-mother |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 October 2013 |title=I don't want typical 'ladki' roles: Hard Kaur |agency=TNN |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=5 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-26/news-and-interviews/39521780_1_honey-singh-kinng-high-performance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608212520/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-26/news-and-interviews/39521780_1_honey-singh-kinng-high-performance |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 June 2013 |title=I did not abuse anyone: Hard Kaur |author=Jaspreet Nijher |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date=26 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2013/sep/250913-hard-kaur-in-a-verbal-tussle-at-a-bandra-nightspot.htm |title=Hard Kaur in a verbal tussle at a Bandra nightspot |publisher=Mid Day |author=Shaheen Parkar |date=25 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://movies.ndtv.com/music/hard-kaur-turns-composer-keen-to-work-with-new-talent-384988 |title=Hard Kaur turns composer, keen to work with |publisher=NDTV |agency=Indo-Asian News Service |date=27 June 2013}}</ref>

==Early life==
Hard Kaur was born in [[Kanpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India on 29 July 1979 as Taran Kaur Dhillon into a [[Punjabis|Punjabi]] [[Jatt Sikh]] family of the [[Dhillon]] clan.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} She was raised in Kanpur, where her mother ran a small beauty parlour in the house.<ref name=Ka>{{cite news|title=Kaur competency|author=Rajiv Vijayakar|url=http://www.screenindia.com/news/Kaur-competency/335923/|work=[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]]|date=18 July 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302170332/http://www.screenindia.com/news/kaur-competency/335923/|archive-date=2 March 2010}}</ref> When she was young, her father was killed and her mother’s beauty parlour was burnt down by anti-Sikh rioters. Her paternal grandparents asked her mother to leave their house and wanted to keep her brother with them. Subsequently she, her brother and her mother moved to [[Hoshiarpur]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[India]] to her maternal grandparents house, where they stayed for the next couple of years.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}

In 1991, her mother remarried a [[British people|British]] citizen and her family moved to [[Birmingham]], [[England]], where her mother started working and studying to eventually open a beauty salon, in Smethwick. Meanwhile, Hard Kaur did her schooling as an [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin#United Kingdom|Indian immigrant in the UK]].<ref name=Ka/> After developing interest in hip-hop she started her music career as a rapper.<ref name=hi>{{cite news |title=Reality shows a tough act: Rapper Hard Kaur |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200905291432.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |date= 29 May 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=NRIs are preferred in India: Hard Kaur |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-03-27/tv/27999687_1_hard-kaur-rap-taran-kaur-dhillon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811050652/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-03-27/tv/27999687_1_hard-kaur-rap-taran-kaur-dhillon |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 August 2011 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=27 March 2009 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/music/20080124-0.html Sassy singer Hard Kaur eyes Bollywood] By ApunKaChoice, 24 January 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=It's a wrap |url= http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/08/30/stories/2008083053360800.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110604182352/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/08/30/stories/2008083053360800.htm |url-status= dead |archive-date= 4 June 2011 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=30 August 2008 }}</ref>

==Career==
She recorded the song "Ek Glassy" and was top for the UK then in 2007 rapped for [[Sriram Raghavan]]'s movie ''[[Johnny Gaddaar]]'''s song "Paisa Phek (Move Your Body)." Since then she has sung in movies like ''[[Ugly Aur Pagli]]'' ("Talli"), ''[[Singh Is Kinng]]'', ''[[Kismat Konnection]]'', ''[[Bachna Ae Haseeno]]'', ''[[Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag]]'', ''[[Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani]]'', and ''[[Prince (2010 film)|Prince]]''.
[[File:Hard Kaur and Birmingham City Councillor Ian Ward.jpg|thumb|210px|Hard Kaur with a [[Birmingham City Council]]lor, 2013. ]]
Kaur performed at [[Live Earth#Live Earth India 2008|Live Earth India, 2008]].

Her first solo album ''Supawoman'' was released in 2007.<ref name=fi>{{cite news |title=Rapper Hard Kaur eyeing acting career in Bollywood |url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/rapper-hard-kaur-eyeing-acting-career-in-bollywood/589168/ |work=[[The Financial Express (India)|The Financial Express]] |date= 10 March 2010 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fwrg BBC Review: "Britain's premier female Asian rapper finally releases her debut album..."] [[BBC]], 17 January 2008.</ref>

In 2008, Hard Kaur was nominated for two awards at the [[UK Asian Music Awards]]: "Best Urban Act" and "Best Female Act".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://menmedia.co.uk/asiannews/entertainment/music/s/1032776_uk_asian_music_awards_nominees_announced_ |title=UK Asian Music Awards nominees announced – The Asian News |publisher=menmedia.co.uk |access-date=24 August 2010 |date=18 January 2008
}}</ref> She won "Best Female Act".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.desiblitz.com/content/the-uk-asian-music-awards-2008 |title=The UK Asian Music Awards 2008 |publisher=desiblitz.com |access-date=24 August 2010 |date=8 March 2008 |author=Nazhat}}</ref>

In October 2012, Hard Kaur released her second music album titled ''Party Loud All Year: P.L.A.Y''. The album, produced in collaboration with Sony music, featured ten songs, all of which were written and composed by her.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hard Kaur recalls struggle to get known in Britain|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/music/hard-kaur-recalls-struggle-to-get-known-in-britain-286438|publisher=NDTV Movies/Indo-Asian News Service|access-date=30 January 2013|date=31 October 2012}}</ref> The most successful song of the album was ''Mujhe Peeney do''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Iti Shree|first=Misra|title=Hard Kaur makes the alcohol anthem of India with her song Peeney Do|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-22/news-and-interviews/34652922_1_hard-kaur-anthem-alcohol|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216065249/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-22/news-and-interviews/34652922_1_hard-kaur-anthem-alcohol|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2013|access-date=30 January 2013|date=22 October 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|agency=TNN}}</ref>

In 2013, she collaborated with composer Ram Sampath and Rajasthani folk singer Bhanvari Devi for Coke Studio India.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} In the song Katey or Kathe – Bhanvari Devi's part is a Rajasthani folk song which is dedicated to Lord Krishna (Saanwariyo) and Rap by Hard Kaur – written by herself in which she express her personal life journey. At the time of elections, she composed a song "Karle Tu Voting" to spread awareness about voting. Hard Kaur composed a song for FIFA World Cup named "Goal Mar Goal Mar". The song aptly describes fan frenzy and is sung in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali & South language (?) too. She has also written the lyrics for the song.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

==Controversial Comments==

Hard Kaur is originally from [[Kanpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]; where she was born and raised and currently lives in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], in [[Birmingham]], [[England]] as an [[Indian people|Indian]] national and citizen and has expressed her support for the [[Sikh]]-[[Separatism|separatist]] [[Khalistan]] movement on multiple occasions in videos, while criticizing the current [[Prime Minister of India|Indian Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]], the current [[Home Minister of India|Indian Home Minister]] [[Amit Shah]], their [[Right-wing politics#India|supporters and followers]], the [[Government of India|Indian government]], [[Hindu nationalists]], the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP party]] and the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS]].<ref>{{cite AV media |date=August 7, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6HdbfXHqgA |title=Hard Kaur Article 370 & 35 | 2020 Khalistan Referendum CHANGE 1984" |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/hard-kaur-article-370-35-2020-khalistan-referendum-change-1984 Alt URL]</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |date=June 22, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VV2GB3LSg |title="Hard Kaur ANGRY On Indian Government, Uses ABUSIVE Language On Camera" |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/hard-kaur-angry-on-indian-government-uses-abusive-language-on-camera Alt URL]</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |date=May 21, 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTXjkRaxad4 |title=Angry Hard Kaur Getting Khalistan Tattoo on her Forearm And Raising Slogan Against Government. |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/angry-hard-kaur-getting-khalistan-tattoo-on-her-forearm-and-raising-slogan-against-government. Alt URL]</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |date=July 21, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vy46i6zxKE |title=Hard Kaur Joins Punjab Independence Movement (Khalistan 2020) |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/hard-kaur-joins-punjab-independence-movement-khalistan-2020 Alt URL]</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |date=August 13, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFO5UKPNEU0 |title=Latest hard kaur khalistan viral abuse india | sedition |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/latest-hard-kaur-khalistan-viral-abuse-india-sedition Alt URL]</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |date=August 14, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtIMoNXchig&t=1s |title=Full Video: Singer Hard Kaur Uses Bad Words For Narendra Modi and Amit Shah |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/full-video-singer-hard-kaur-uses-bad-words-for-narendra-modi-and-amit-shah Alt URL]</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |date=November 29, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2H-qsC10Q |title=Hard Kaur Replies To RSS BJP IT Cell Troll Bhakt & Mohan Bhagat | Khalistan 2020 |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/hard-kaur-replies-to-rss-bjp-it-cell-troll-bhakt-mohan-bhagat-khalistan-2020 Alt URL]</ref>

In June 2019, a [[First Information Report]] was lodged against her for comments about [[Yogi Adityanath]] and [[Mohan Bhagwat]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/uk-based-singer-hard-kaur-booked-for-her-remarks-against-bhagwat-yogi/articleshow/69862224.cms|title=UK based singer Hard Kaur booked for her remarks against Bhagwat, Yogi|date=June 19, 2019|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/music/hard-kaur-rapper-sedition-charge-yogi-adityanath-mohan-bhagwat-rss-5791455/|title=The Hard Line|date=2019-06-21|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN|access-date=2019-08-13}}</ref> In August 2019, her Twitter account was suspended after she posted a video abusing [[Amit Shah]] and [[Narendra Modi]] with [[Khalistan]] Supporters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/celebrities/hard-kaur-challenges-pm-modi-amit-shah-video-khalistan-supporters#read-more|title=Hard Kaur Challenges Modi, Shah in Video With Khalistan Supporters|date=13 August 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/hard-kaur-posts-video-abusing-pm-narendra-modi-and-amit-shah-twitter-suspends-her-account-1580339-2019-08-13|title=Hard Kaur posts video abusing PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Twitter suspends her account|newspaper=India Today|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13|agency=Ist}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aajtak.intoday.in/story/hard-kaur-twitter-account-suspend-after-she-gave-abusive-remarks-to-pm-modi-and-amit-shah-tmove-1-1110431.html|title=PM मोदी, अमित शाह के लिए हार्ड कौर ने इस्तेमाल की भद्दी भाषा, ट्विटर ने सस्पेंड किया अकाउंट|website=aajtak.intoday.in|date=13 August 2019 |language=hi|access-date=2019-08-13}}</ref>

Kaur released a song and music video in 2019 after the abrogation of [[Article 370 of the Constitution of India]] by the [[Government of India]] which [[Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir|revoked the special status]] of the [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir state]] of India; supporting [[Kashmir insurgency|Kashmiri-Separatism]] in [[India]], in which she called herself a 'proud [[Khalistan]]i'.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=November 29, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H80FWiVVF4o |title=Kashmir To Khalistan (#StandWithFarmers) - Hard Kaur | Hindi Rap +18 | Banned In India |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/kashmir-to-khalistan-stand-with-farmers-hard-kaur-hindi-rap-18-banned-in-india Alt URL]</ref>

Kaur released an IG video in 2020 calling [[Indian people]] "naked, hungry, dirty, idiots, illiterate, uneducated mother****ers".<ref>{{cite AV media |date=October 27, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2otHH-S9uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227175720/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2otHH-S9uk |archive-date=April 3, 2022 |title=Hard Kaur replies to Indians again - Kartarpur Khalistan 2020 |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }}</ref>

In a now deleted video that Kaur uploaded on Instagram and Twitter, she [[slut-shamed]] [[Bollywood]] actresses, accusing them of '[[sexual favors|sleeping their way to the top]]' and mocking the [[Me Too movement (India)|Indian #MeToo movement victims]] who spoke out against their perpetrators, who were mostly Film-directors, producers and senior actors by insinuating that [[Victim blaming|they're lying and they asked for it]] and that they knew very-well about Bollywood's [[casting couch]] in advance.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=July 21, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlyzQcLDYc0 |title=Hard Kaur replies to rape threats - ਹਾਰਡ ਕੌਰ ਮੋਡੀ ਨੂੰ ਜਵਾਬ ਦਿੰਦੀ ਹੈ - ਪੰਜਾਬ ਬਚਾਓ! #MeToo |via=[[YouTube]] |language=en }} [https://archive.org/details/hard-kaur-replies-to-indian-rape-threats-me-too Alt URL]</ref>

==Discography==
===EPs===
* ''Voodoo Hill'' (1997)

===Albums===
* ''Supawoman'' (2007)
* ''Party Loud All Year: P.L.A.Y'' (2012)

===Compilation appearances===
* ''[[Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani]]'' (soundtrack, 2009)
* ''The Rising - Volume 1'' (mixtape, 2017)

==Filmography==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Film
! Song
! Language
! Notes
|-
| 2007
|''[[Johnny Gaddar]]''
|[[Move Your Body (Eiffel 65 song)|Move Your Body]]
|rowspan=11|Hindi
| Special Appearance in Song
|-
|rowspan=3|2008
|''[[Kismat Konnection]]''
|Move Your Body
|
|-
|''[[Bachna Ae Haseeno]]''
| Lucky Boy
|
|-
|''[[Ugly Aur Pagli]]''
|Tali
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2009
|rowspan=2|''[[Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani]]''
|Follow Me
|
|-
|Main Tera Dhadkan
|
|-
|rowspan=4|2011
|rowspan=2|''[[Patiala House (film)|Patiala House]]''
|Laung Da Lashkara
|rowspan=2| First Feature Film
|-
|Rola Pae Gaya
|-
|rowspan=2|''[[F.A.L.T.U]].''
|Char Baj Gaye
|
|-
|Faltu Title Track
|
|-
|rowspan=3|2013
|[[ABCD: Any Body Can Dance]]
|Sadda Dil Vi Tu (Ga Ga Ga Ganpati)
|
|-
|''[[Hanni (2013 Movie)|Hanni]]''
|
|Punjabi
|
|-
| ''[[Vanakkam Chennai]]''
|Chennai City Gangsta
| Tamil
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2014
|''[[Babloo Happy Hai]]''
|Babloo Happy Hai
|rowspan=3|Hindi
|
|-
|''[[The Shaukeens]]''
|Aashique Mizaz
|Composer
|-
|2015
|''[[Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfriend]]'' ||Zaalim Dilli
|
|-
|2016
|''[[Sarrainodu]]''
|Sarrainodu
|Telugu
|
|-
| 2017
|''[[OK Jaanu]]''
|Kaara Fankaara
|Hindi
|
|}

==Television acts==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! TV show
! Language
! Notes
|-
| 2009 || ''[[Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa|Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 3]]'' || Hindi || Contestant
|-
| 2010 || ''[[Comedy Circus Ke Taansen]]''|| Hindi || Special Appearance with Krushna and Sudesh
|-
| 2012 || ''[[Bigg Boss 6]]'' || Hindi || Guest
|-
| 2016 || ''Box Cricket League'' || Hindi || Player in Ahmedabad Express
|}

== See also ==

* [[List of British Sikhs]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

* [http://djmobmix.in/search.php?search=Hard+Kaur&type=&searchnow=Search Hard Kaur All Songs Download]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} At DJMobmix
* [http://www.desiblitz.com/content/hard-kaur= Hard-Kaur video interview]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100110221222/http://singhisking.co.uk/?p=186 More about Hard Kaur at Singh is King.co.uk]
* [http://www.myspace.com/mchardkaur Official MySpace Page]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100522025838/http://www.besharam.co.uk/hard-kaur-they-call-me-shame-proof/ Interview with Hard Kaur at Besharam.co.uk]
* [https://archive.today/20130123155201/http://www.friedeye.com/2011/02/01/fighting-it-out-hard-kaur Fighting it out: Hard Kaur at Fried Eye]
{{MTV Europe Music Award for Best Indian Act}}

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[[Category:English women rappers]]
[[Category:Women musicians from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:English Sikhs]]
[[Category:Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands]]

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