Hard Kaur

Hard Kaur is the performing name of Taran Kaur Dhillon, an acclaimed Indian-British rapper, singer, and actress. Born in Kanpur, Utter Pradesh, India, Dhillon lost her father at a young age and, when her mother remarried a British citizen, immigrated to the U.K. in 1991. Coming of age in Birmingham in the early '90s, she became interested in rap music, leaving school at 16 to pursue a music career. Over the next ten years, Dhillon, who had begun developing her Hard Kaur sound and persona by now, struggled to find opportunities as an Indian woman in the U.K.'s male-dominated hip-hop scene. Possessed of a strong will and ample talent, she eventually began to attract notice outside of Britain, playing in Europe, Israel, and the U.S