Jasmine Sandlas

Jasmine Sandlas (born 4 September 1985) is an Indian-American singer, television personality, performer, songwriter who mainly sings Punjabi songs.^[1][3][4] Sandlas was born in Jalandhar, India and raised in Stockton, California. Sandlas's first song, "Muskan" (2007)^[5], became a hit. In 2014, she began her Bollywood playback singing career with the song "Yaar Na Miley" for the film Kick.^[6] Upon its release, "Yaar Na Miley" went viral, topped the charts, and earned Sandlas widespread critical acclaim for her singing style. Her latest hits are "Taras" for the film Munjya (2024), "Shararat", and the title track from the film Dhurandhar (2025).^[7][8] She also received several awards, including the Most Popular Song of the Year 2016 at the PTC Punjabi Film Awards and Screen Award for Best Female Playback. She was also featured on the TEDx Talks, MTV Coke Studio and Spoken Word platforms.^[9]

Jasmine Kaur Sandlas was born in 1985 in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, to a Punjabi Sikh Labana family.^[1][10] Her mother put her on stage to sing at an early age. During her school days she participated in many song competitions and then that was the time when she got influenced by many Punjabi folk singers. At the age of 12 or 13, she and her family migrated to California, where she was inspired by West Coast music.^[11] She was only 16 when she began writing songs.^[12][13]

Her first song, "Muskan", released in 2007,^[5][14] from her underground debut album The Diamond, which was subsequently released in 2008, written by Lalie Gill, achieved great success worldwide.^[15] After the launch of the album, she started receiving recognition from the mainstream Punjabi music industry.

In 2012, her debut studio album Gulabi was launched by Sony Music Company. She collaborated on the album with rapper Bohemia, who produced the album, and featured on the song "Adhi Rati"^[16], which was released as the lead single. The album was released on November 6.^[11][17][18]

Her Bollywood playback singing career began with the soundtrack of the film Kick, on which she sung the song called "Devil-Yaar Naa Miley" with Yo Yo Honey Singh, in 2014.^[6][19]

In 2015, Jasmine Sandlas released the single "Punjab De Javak". Jasmine sung two singles, "Ishq Da Sutta" and "Raat Jashan Di", for the film soundtracks of One Night Stand and Zorawar, respectively.

Jasmine was also the part of the TV series, focusing on women-empowerment called Angels of Rock,^[20][21] by MTV India. Jasmine, along with three other artists namely, Shalmali Kholgade, Akasa Singh, Anusha Mani traveled from Mumbai to the Atarri border (travelling through Gujarat, Rajasthan, UP, Punjab along the way), covering places in rural as well as urban India. Along the way, they met some women who scripted their own success stories in varied fields and used their voice to speak up and discuss issues that urgently need attention. The pilot episode premiered on 31 July 2016.

Starting in 2017, she released a string of commercially successful singles with singer Garry Sandhu and producer Intense, including "Illegal Weapon" and "Laddu" in 2017, and "Sip Sip" in 2018.^[22][23][24] "Sip Sip" and "Illegal Weapon" went on to be remixed and used in the film soundtrack of the Bollywood movie, Street Dancer 3D (2020).^[25]

In 2020, her third album, What's in a Name, was released on the day of her father's birthday. The album was produced by Intense and Hark. The illustration for the album cover was designed by Diksha and animation was designed by VFX Kalakaar.^[26][27]

TGPE (The Great Punjabi Experiment) was an experimental album that Jasmine Sandlas released to observe "if her predictions, about what kind of music people like, were right or wrong". It consisted of 9 songs. The first promotional single "Gaana Challe Ya Na" was released on 8 March 2021 and the album rollout concluded with the single release of "Dil Tutteya", which was released on 10 February 2022.^[28]

Sandlas released an EP called Tini on her birthday that included 4 songs: “Yakeen”, “Kehnda Hi Nahi”, “Hava Vich” and “Kehri Gali.”^[29] Sandlas released a single called "Jee Jeha Karda" on 7 November 2022.^[30]

Jasmine's first project of the year, "Jehri Ve" released on 30 January 2023, which also had vocals from fellow singer Gippy Grewal. The track was included on soundtrack of the Punjabi movie Mitran Da Naa Chalda.^[31] In August 2023, she dropped the Rude EP, consisting of four songs.^[32] In the same year, Jasmine was inducted into the Women Songwriter's Hall of Fame for her impact on the music industry.^[33]

In May 2024, she returned to contribute to Bollywood music, after a gap of four years, by lending her vocals to the track "Taras", for the film soundtrack of Munjya.^[34]

In 2025, she released the track "POLS", that she called "a rebirth in her artistic journey".^[35] She also collaborated with rapper Raga on the track "Brown Baddie", marking a return to her early hip-hop rooted music. She also contributed to the soundtrack of the film Raid 2, on the song "Nasha".^[36] She also released her fourth album, Legal Robbery, produced by Intense in October 2025.^[37][38]

In the same year, she also earned widespread praise for her collaborations with composer Shashwat Sachdev for the soundtracks for the web-series The Ba***ds of Bollywood and the film Dhurandhar.^[39][8][40] She also appeared on the soundtrack of the sequel to the latter, Dhurandhar: The Revenge.^[41]

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