48 Facts About Sidhu Moose Wala

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, known professionally as Sidhu Moose Wala, was an Indian singer and rapper.

Sidhu Moose Wala worked predominantly in Punjabi-language music and cinema.

Moose Wala is considered to be one of the most influential and successful Punjabi rappers of all time and to many, among the greatest singers of India in this generation.

In 2020, Moose Wala was named by The Guardian among 50 up and coming artists.

Sidhu Moose Wala became the first Punjabi and Indian singer to perform at Wireless Festival and won four awards at the Brit Asia TV Music Awards.

Moose Wala rose to mainstream popularity with his track "So High".

Sidhu Moose Wala has the most number-one singles on the Billboard India Songs chart.

In 2021, Moose Wala joined the Indian National Congress political party and unsuccessfully contested the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election for Mansa.

Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead by unidentified assailants on 29 May 2022; a Canada-based gangster named Goldy Brar and a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, claimed responsibility for the killing, which the police said was the culmination of an inter-gang rivalry.

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu Moose Wala was born in the village of Moosa in the Mansa district of Punjab, India to a Jat Sikh family.

Sidhu Moose Wala's father is Balkaur Singh and his mother is Charan Kaur.

Moose Wala studied at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 2016.

Sidhu Moose Wala admired and was influenced by rapper Tupac Shakur.

Sidhu Moose Wala started listening to hip-hop music as a student in sixth grade, and was trained in music by Harvinder Bittu in Ludhiana.

Moose Wala released his first song "G Wagon" in 2017 while living in Brampton.

Sidhu Moose Wala began to perform live shows in India in 2018, and performed numerous shows in Canada.

In February 2019 Moose Wala released "Legend" under his own record label, and it won the Brit Asia TV Kuflink Best Track of the Year Award that year.

In January 2020, Moose Wala was featured along with Nseeb on Prem Dhillon's track "Old Skool".

In May 2021, Moose Wala released his third studio album, Moosetape.

Moose Wala was the first Indian singer to perform at this festival.

Sidhu Moose Wala released another titled "410" in collaboration with Sunny Malton in April 2024.

Sidhu Moose Wala collaborated with Fredo and Steel Banglez on a song released in August 2023.

Moose Wala made his debut in Punjabi cinema with the film Yes I Am Student under his own production company Jatt Life Studios.

Sidhu Moose Wala lived in his home village Moosa, which his fans often visited to meet him.

Sidhu Moose Wala was very attached to his grandmother and kept his hair long at her request, a practice considered very important in Sikhism.

Sidhu Moose Wala parents, Balkaur Singh and Charan Kaur, welcomed a new addition to their family - a baby boy born on 17 March 2024.

Moose Wala had a rivalry with Karan Aujla; both have replied to each other through songs, on social media, and in live performances.

The rivalry was resolved temporarily until Aujla released a diss track, "Lafaafe", which Moose Wala responded to with "Warning Shots".

At the time of his death, Moose Wala was facing criminal charges for promoting gun culture and violence.

On 6 June 2020, Moose Wala was fined by police in Nabha because his car windows were tinted darker than what was permissible, and he was allowed to leave despite being wanted on outstanding charges; he incorrectly told the officers that he was already out on bail.

Indian sport shooter Avneet Sidhu criticised the song and called out Moose Wala for promoting gun culture.

Moose Wala later apologised on social media and in March 2020 appeared before the Sikh religious body Akal Takht in a hearing over the incident.

In December 2020, Moose Wala released the single "Panjab: My Motherland" in support of the Indian farmers protest against the 2020 Indian agriculture acts, which featured clips of orthodox Sikh militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and speeches made by Khalistan supporter Bharpur Singh Balbir in the late 1980s.

Similarly Sidhu Moose Wala clarified in the interview that Khalistan, to him, means the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, not a separate country.

Sidhu Moose Wala emphasised that he is an Indian citizen, living in India, and has a deep connection to the country.

Moose Wala actively campaigned for his mother, Charan Kaur, who won the sarpanch election for Moosa in December 2018.

On 3 December 2021, Moose Wala joined the INC to contest the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election.

Sidhu Moose Wala had held a door-to-door campaign in Mansa after the campaigning deadline.

On 11 April 2022, Moose Wala released a song titled "Scapegoat", in which he laments his failure in the 2022 elections.

Moose Wala was shot dead by unidentified assailants in his car on 29 May 2022 in Jawaharke village of Mansa at age of 28.

Moose Wala was driving his black Mahindra Thar SUV to his aunt's house in Barnala.

Moose Wala fired back at the attackers using his pistol.

Sidhu Moose Wala's father took Moose Wala to the civil hospital in Mansa, where he was declared dead.

Moose Wala was among the 424 people whose police security was reduced or entirely removed the day before, in preparation for the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, leaving him with two commandos instead of the earlier four.

At the time of the incident, Moose Wala was travelling in his private car accompanied by two others instead of his bullet-proof vehicle with the commandos.

Sidhu Moose Wala announced the setting up of a judicial commission headed by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to investigate the killing.

Sidhu Moose Wala's autopsy was carried out by five doctors, and the event was videographed.

The family of Moose Wala made a public appeal to political parties and individuals, asking them to not use his name for political or personal motives.