Singh emigrated from
Punjab, India, to
Queens,
New York when he was twelve years old. He quickly entered the local music scene, debuting his tracks at an open mic night in
Greenwich Village. Singh began exploring the boundaries between Punjabi folk lyricism and Asian Underground electronica, and he teamed up with New York's DJ Navdeep to record the underground hit "Aa Gayee". Singh performed with
Panjabi MC at Summerjam 2003, when he sang "
Beware of the Boys" for a crowd of over 20,000. Since then, Singh has toured all over
Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The 2004 mix-tape
Exclusives included a collaboration with
Global Soul recording artist Shakti to produce "Do the Thang Thang," which played on New York radio stations
Hot 97 and
Power 105. Also on the album were the Tigerstyle-produced hits "Taakre" and "Nachna". Singh's latest album,
American Jugni, has spent several weeks on the top of the BBC Asian Bhangra charts. Singh brought in two major Bhangra producers,
Tigerstyle and
Ravi Bal, to work on the album. In 2005,
American Jugni was the best-selling album in the UK and the track "Kawan", which featured vocal talents of Gunjan (a well established female Hindi/Punjabi singer) was named by BBC radio as the track of the year. In 2007, Singh linked up with producer and hip hop extraordinaire Wyclef to create a track on DJ Rekha's (Basement Bhangra) upcoming Koch Records release. Rekha had actually asked Bikram a while back to do a track for the album and the vocals sat there over the years and nothing materialized for a while. But with the album release finalized, Rekha rekindled the record this year and asked him to re-do the vocals on the track in collaboration with Wyclef, and the ‘Basement Bhangra Anthem’ was born. In 2011, Singh performed on
Das Racist's "Punjabi Song" from their album
Relax. He sings the hook, entirely in Punjabi. ==The band==