Ms Scandalous

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Ms Scandalous

Origin England
Years active 2002-
Genres Bhangra
Labels Desi Jam

Ms Scandalous (born 1981)[1] is a British Asian bhangra/rap artist.

She was born in Southall, West London, to a Punjabi family.

Ms Scandalous was signed up by Panjabi Hit Squad after she was spotted working part-time at a music store in Southall, and asked to audition on the spot. She debuted in October 2002 on their album The Streets, performing the MCing for the second-to-last track, the garage remix of Hai Hai. Her first full-length album, Ladies First, came out in May 2005; at the time Scandalous was in her final year at university, and she juggled producing and promoting the album with studying for her degree in arts management [2]. The video for the second track, Aaja Soniyah, entered the MTV Base top ten.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Handal, Sunny: Ms Scandalous: the new lady of British Asian sounds?, Indian Electronica, 11 July 2005
  2. ^ Busby, John: Ms Scandalous Meets UKMusic.com, UK Music.com, 25th April 2005

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