{"id":2059440,"date":"2025-09-30T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2059440"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:59:01","slug":"meet-param-that-girl-from-punjab-whose-single-is-blowing-up-internet-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meet-param-that-girl-from-punjab-whose-single-is-blowing-up-internet-music-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Param, \u2018That Girl\u2019 from Punjab whose single is blowing up Internet | Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A plane cuts across the sky above a maze of tin roofs and from the crumbling homes in the alleys below, a girl, in a boxy T-shirt that says \u2018World Circuit\u2019 and camouflage cargos, steps out with neighbourhood children and mouths a few sharp lines in crisp Malwa Punjabi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ve main addi na patashe jaavan phor di\u2026\/ Ankh takdi na kise nu eh ghoordi\/ Meri chuppi japdi doonge shor jahi<\/em> (I don\u2019t just stand around breaking sugar candies\/ My eyes don\u2019t just look, they stare\/ My silence feels like a deep noise)\u201d go the first few lines of a hip-hop track, titled \u2018That Girl\u2019. Dropped on YouTube last week, this debut single raked up over 30 lakh views within six days.<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>This song, which is blowing up the Internet right now, is by 19-year-old rapper and singer Paramjeet Kaur, who goes by the moniker Param, and is based in Duneke, a sleepy village in Punjab\u2019s Moga. Produced by British record producer Manni Sandhu, the track has been backed by an independent record label, named Collab Creations, shot in Mohali and made without the help of industry heavyweights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Interestingly, the song was recorded in an Airbnb in Punjab during Sandhu\u2019s recent India visit. He began to play some keys and Param began layering the first verse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not record this track in an expensive studio. There was no acoustic treatment\u2026 you could hear cars outside, but still, the vocals were extremely crisp. Honestly, after 15 years in the game, experiences like this only happen now and again. Within 10 minutes, we had the vibe of the song down,\u201d Sandhu says in a video he put out on Instagram on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sandhu took these vocals back to his studio in the UK, added some final touches and asked his friends, Dilsher Singh and Khurpal Singh, who call themselves Tru Makers, to shoot the music video. \u201cThis was simply down to raw talent, That\u2019s it,\u201d adds Sandhu, who was born in West London and raised in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PARAM - THAT GIRL (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DNX6FYAFOE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What has earned Param the spotlight is not just the raw energy in her voice, but also her authentic tone, powerful singing and a challenge to the typical trope of a Punjabi woman singer who often sings folk or pop. In the hyper-masculine rap scene of Punjab, where women are often reduced to props in music videos, Param isn\u2019t doing the emceeing in street vernacular \u2014 she has composed the track and is singing with all the lung power she can muster.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adboxtop adsizes\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere are many women in Punjab singing pop music. But Param is quite unique because she is one of a kind. There aren\u2019t any women rappers in Punjab rapping in Punjabi. She is the first one in the \u2018Gully Boy\u2019 space. I think she will go a long way,\u201d says Satvinder Singh Kohli, managing director, Speed Records, the region\u2019s biggest music company that releases over 200 songs annually and is responsible for launching musicians like Honey Singh and Satinder Sartaj.<\/p>\n<p>In Param\u2019s case, what makes her even more interesting is that her swagger isn\u2019t ripped off \u2014 it is her own and is born out of a struggle to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Duneke, where her mother works as house help and her father is a daily-wage labourer, Param got interested in rap when she was in Class 10 at the village\u2019s government high school.<\/p>\n<p>Her interest in music surged when she took music as a subject at DM College in Moga. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t a great singer in school, but became better and better over time,\u201d 19-year-old Jashanpreet Singh aka \u2018Saab\u2019, who has written the additional lyrics of \u2018That Girl\u2019 with Param, told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noamphtml\" class=\"keywordtourl\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\">The Indian Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adboxtop adsizes\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cParam already had the first verse in place. For this song, we sat down with Manni Sandhu paaji and then wrote the rest of it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>On this stage name \u2018Saab\u2019, Jashanpreet said he chose it because the honorific title used in the subcontinent, for him, implied \u201cthat you had become something\u201d. He adds, \u201cAnother reason was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noamphtml\" class=\"keywordtourl\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/sidhu-moose-wala\/\">Sidhu Moosewala<\/a>\u2019s song \u2018Saab\u2019, where he says Lab ke naukri tu saab ban ja (Find a job and become a saheb).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In college, Saab and Param would jam with others \u2014 boys and girls from college interested in hip-hop in Moga\u2019s Dana Mandi, the local traditional grain market that came with a large open space \u2014 and indulge in freestyle rap to create reels. These reels eventually went on Saab\u2019s page, named \u2018Malwa Hood\u2019 with the username \u2018cypher.pb29\u2019. While 29 is Moga\u2019s pin code, cypher internationally refers to an official gathering of rappers where they vibe together and bounce energy off of each other to create freestyle verses.<\/p>\n<p>The Dana Mandi is where Param\u2019s melodic hip-hop was first \u201cdiscovered\u201d on Instagram. Her style was gritty, the notes straight as an arrow, and every bar had a certain attitude and power. \u201cGirls around us aren\u2019t into the cypher culture. Her reels really worked on our page,\u201d says Saab.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adboxtop adsizes\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On her own Instagram page, Param would often record herself holding a guitar and singing songs \u2014 mostly by Satinder Sartaj and Sidhu Moosewala \u2014 alone on her unplastered terrace.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2018That Girl\u2019, Param talks about not needing anyone and carrying a gun in her bag. She also drops a reference to Jeona Morh \u2014 a Robinhood-like figure in Punjabi folklore who was born into a poor family but was known for being the champion of the oppressed: \u201cJatti kalli hi batheri na hi chahida Sahara\u2026 Muh di mitthi hoke hallan mainu lorh nai\/ Ve main Anakh Aa Paa Lyi Jeone Morh Jahyi (This Jatti is enough on her own, I don\u2019t need support\u2026 I don\u2019t need to be sweet-tongued to get by\/ I have adopted the pride of Jeona Morh).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Off the microphone or the cyphers she attends, Param is just another girl from a village. Her voice softens as she talks of becoming a musician so she can build a \u201cproper house\u201d for her parents. \u201cI just want to support my family. I want to build a really nice house for my parents. I want them to sit at home and just relax,\u201d says Param in a BBC Punjabi documentary on Moga\u2019s rap scene.<\/p>\n<section class=\"stories_fu_widget\" id=\"myie_stories_list_10279247\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source indianexpress.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane cuts across the sky above a maze of tin roofs and from the crumbling homes in the alleys below, a girl, in a boxy T-shirt that says \u2018World Circuit\u2019 and camouflage cargos, steps out with neighbourhood children and mouths a few sharp lines in crisp Malwa Punjabi. \u201cVe main addi na patashe jaavan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2059441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[383828,383831,383832,383825,383826,383829,383830,383827],"class_list":["post-2059440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-collab-creations-independent-label","tag-entertaintment-news","tag-indian-express","tag-param-punjabi-rapper","tag-param-punjabi-rapper-debut-single-that-girl","tag-param-punjabi-rapper-video","tag-paramjeet-kaur-that-girl-video","tag-paramjeet-kaur-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Meet-Param-\u2018That-Girl-from-Punjab-whose-single-is-blowing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}