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.Daler Mehndi (Punjabi: ???? ??????, daler mahindi), born August 18, 1967, is a bhangra/pop singer from India. Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in IndiaBorn and raised in Patna, India, he began singing at age five and was taught the ragas and Shabad's from the Guru Granth Sahib by his parents. At age fourteen he spent three years refining his voice and learning the tabla, harmonium and tanpura from his uncle Raahat Ali Khan Saheb.Mehndi married in 1986 and currently has three children. Mehndi then moved to San Francisco, United States and worked as a cab driver before returning to India in 1991 and forming a band. Initially he sang ghazaals inspired by the poets Qateel Shifai and Firaq Gorakhpuri.