User:Simranjit Simmi

== Simranjit Simmi == Simranjit Simmi (Simranjit singh) is a Punjabi Indian singer from Mohali, India. He is strongly influenced by late singer Surjit Bindrakhia.

Personal life
Simranjit was born to his father Dr. Nirmal Singh and mother Kanwal Kaur in a Punjabi Sikh family in a village in Chandigarh. His family soon moved to the city Mohali. Simmi is the brother in law of Surjit Bindrakhia. He has spent much time with the legend and has great love for him.

career
Simranjit started his music carrier in 2006 via Point Zero with the album Puttar Panj Dareawa De. Puttar Panj Dareawa de was a huge success in Punjab and Simmi got the PTC best newcomer award in 2007. That album was made by Samsher Sandhu and Atul Sharma. Later he came with the album "Tere nal". Simranjit is working with music producers like Sukhbir Josan and Ravi Bal. He also got to work in the punjabi movie Mittran da naa chalda. Simranjit studied music at university.

Taken from the newspaper (2007): Ludhiana, October 5 The resemblance in voice is uncanny. The immortal voice of Punjabi music, Surjit Bindrakhia, seems to have come alive again. And interestingly, one finds him in the voice of his brother-in-law Simranjit Simmi. (Late Surjit Singh Bindrakhia is Simranjeet’s jeeja). This shy, lanky youth claims that he owes every thing to the late singer. “I do try to sing like Bindrakhia, but I do not copy him blindly. I have picked up his style, and also try to create a Simranjeet Simmy stamp.” Simmy adds that he has learnt music with Bindrakhia, during the latter’s stage performances. “I used to accompany him for stage shows, and during his performances I studied his music. Later for three years, I trained under well known music director Varinder Bachan.” Now, Simmi is ready with his first album, Putar Panj Darya De. “This album has every shade of Punjabi music, just the way Bindrakhia had for his fans.”

Simmi, a product of DAV School, Chandigarh, loves to play snooker and football apart from music. He is also a award winning bhangra dancer. “When Bindrakhia died, people close to me who had heard me earlier, kind of forced me to sing. I remember some of Bindrakhia’s colleagues actually walking up to my father and telling him that I would keep the musical legacy in our family alive. Three years down the line, the prophecy seems to have come true.”

His favourite singer continues to be Bindrakhia. “It is my brother in law all the way, though I listen to all the singers to pick up some nuances here and there. I am still learning the art, and each Punjabi singers has something or the other to offer. So all the singers are my favourites,” Simmi points out.