{"id":2098074,"date":"2025-10-17T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2098074"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:46:09","slug":"canadian-artists-karan-aujla-and-jonita-featured-on-ed-sheerans-new-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/canadian-artists-karan-aujla-and-jonita-featured-on-ed-sheerans-new-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian artists Karan Aujla and Jonita featured on Ed Sheeran\u2019s new EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ed Sheeran is joined by a cast of all South Asian collaborators on his new EP, <em>Play (The Remixes), <\/em>out today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The original album, released in September, was influenced by Sheeran&#8217;s month-long stay in India, where he first connected with Surrey, B.C.\u2019s Karan Aujla and Toronto\u2019s Jonita, as well as Hanumankind, Dhee, Santhosh Narayanan and Arijit Singh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t Sheeran&#8217;s first time in India and after a decade of touring, he says he\u2019s \u201cmet lots of local artists\u201d and was introduced to \u201call types of music and cultures.\u201d With the <em>Play <\/em>EP he wanted to represent as much of those experiences as he could.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remix EP features four standout tracks from the album, reimagined with new verses from the other musicians. The new version of <em>Symmetry<\/em> features Aujla, with Punjabi hip-hop verses that Sheeran joins in on in the latter half of the song.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH | The music video for Ed Sheeran&#8217;s remix of Symmetry featuring Karan Aujla :<\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ed Sheeran - Symmetry feat. Karan Aujla (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/32sPcsb9ClQ?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><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It seems this may be the beginning of a long musical partnership, as Sheeran alluded to in a press statement: \u201cKaran is culture, and I love the movement he\u2019s making with Ikky at the moment. It\u2019s been so cool watching the thing he\u2019s built and becoming a part of that world and journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Karan] taught me the Punjabi parts on this song in the studio, and we got to shoot an amazing video for it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I feel like this is the beginning of our collaborative journey, and I\u2019m so excited to create more.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Aujla was signed to 91 North Records, an imprint of Warner Music Canada spearheaded by producer Ikky to highlight the South Asian music boom in the country. Aujla\u2019s recent album, <em>P-Pop Culture<\/em>, was the latest in a long line of co-productions between the two of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jonita is another 91 North signee, and her addition to Sheeran\u2019s remix EP is on <em>Heaven. <\/em>Her bright voice cuts through the melodic, downtempo love song as her Hindi verse comes in. On the second chorus, their voices delicately intermingle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH | The lyric video for Sheeran&#8217;s remix of Heaven with Jonita:<\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ed Sheeran - Heaven (feat. Jonita) - Remix [Lyric Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5yhgAq-xnRM?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><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song, <em>Heaven<\/em>, is already so incredibly beautiful \u2014 it reminds me of the kind of love that\u2019s pure, gentle and safe. I wanted my verse to carry that same innocence, that same fluttery warmth of love that doesn\u2019t need to prove itself,\u201d Jonita shared in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPy0wZPEir7\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\"><u>an Instagram<\/u><\/a> caption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She met Sheeran in Mumbai in 2024, where she got a chance to share some of her music with him. In turn, he shared some songs that made it onto <em>Play<\/em>. \u201cThat day, I was blown away by how genuinely curious and appreciative he was of Indian music, instruments, and inflections \u2026 I remember thinking how intentional and sensitive he was about representing cultures outside his own.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\" custom content\" class=\"customHtml\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sheeran had his own praise to share about Jonita in a press statement: \u201cI love her voice, the tone, the softness. This was the perfect tune for us to do together and it\u2019s also the first Hindi song I have released. It\u2019s an honour to do it with her \u2014\u00a0 what a talent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remix EP is rounded out with two other songs, <em>Sapphire <\/em>featuring Arijit Singh and <em>Don\u2019t Look Down <\/em>featuring Hanumankind, Dhee and Santhosh Narayanan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/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 www.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Sheeran is joined by a cast of all South Asian collaborators on his new EP, Play (The Remixes), out today.\u00a0 The original album, released in September, was influenced by Sheeran&#8217;s month-long stay in India, where he first connected with Surrey, B.C.\u2019s Karan Aujla and Toronto\u2019s Jonita, as well as Hanumankind, Dhee, Santhosh Narayanan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2098075,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2098074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Canadian-artists-Karan-Aujla-and-Jonita-featured-on-Ed-Sheerans.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098074","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=2098074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098076,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098074\/revisions\/2098076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}