Simply Bhangra's Trisha Arora had the rare opportunity to get an exclusive interview with the one and only California King, Bhinda Jatt following the release of his track "Kala Chadra".

What inspired you to be a singer?

I had never actually imagined that I would make a career out of this. I always practiced singing at home as a hobby when I was younger. Then I met Inderjit Bains who is a producer from Canada, he was a good friend of my elder brother Kesar Kc. Once Inderjit was exposed to my singing he spoke to my brother Kesar about getting me to record a song and luckily everything went well after that and this journey of mine continued on.

How is your life outside of your music career? Any hobbies?

My life outside of my music career is very family oriented; I love being surrounded with family and my loved ones as much as possible. Other than that I enjoy writing songs of course, which is not just my job but also my hobby. I also enjoy playing and watching sports and last but not least love to try different types of restaurants no matter where I go!

When asked who he looks up to, he said that Surinder Shinda is one of his biggest role models as he grew up listening to and singing his songs such as 'Bhari Kol Ke' and 'Puth Jattan De'.

Would you ever consider working on or release a track similar to Jatt Diyan Boliyan or Nachdi Di Video?

I have been getting a lot of requests to come up with some related tracks to my old hits like Jatt Diyan Boliyan or Nachdi Di Video. It is very difficult to say anything right now because I have a lot of new ideas that I want to work on but now due to the requests I will try my hardest to incorporate something related to my old songs.

If you could list 3 improvements you believe should be made in the Bhangra industry, what would they be?

The first and biggest has to be that in my opinion, Bhangra is becoming to westernized. The lyrics of a song should be meaningful, we need to get back to our roots and last one would be the rapping between songs I sometimes it