His album song "Tunak Tunak Tun" is an Internet phenomenon. He has also been a guest star on the new Indian version of Sesame Street known as Galli Galli Sim Sim. His success helped him negotiate a record-breaking deal with his record company Magnasound for 20.5 million rupees. He has even appeared in the films Mrityudata and Arjun Pundit. He also earned Channel V's Best Male Pop Singer Award, which he also received in 1996 for Dar Di Rab Rab and in 1997 for Ho Jayegi Bale Bale. He received the Award for Voice of Asia International Ethnic and Pop Music Contest in 1994. Mehndi eventually switched from classical music to pop, and in 1995 his first album Bolo Ta Ra Ra, with tunes based on those given to him by his mother, sold half a million copies in four months and 20 million copies total, making him the best selling non-soundtrack album in Indian music history. Mehndi is well known as a philanthropist, funding beautification projects in Delhi and aiding quake victims. His international popularity has grown in recent years allowing him to tour the United States. Since 1995 he has recorded several highly successful albums in India, and also sung in several Bollywood movies. Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in India. Daler Mehndi, born August 18, 1967, is a bhangra/pop singer from India.
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