Shirley Setia: The Millennials’ Queen And A New Age Singer Shirley Setia has become a household name with her mesmerizing voice. But there are so lees to known and read about her across the internet.
Here we bring you 10 things which you need to know about Shirley Setia. Who is Shirley Setia? A 21-year-old Indo-Kiwi singer, performer, and a songwriter from Auckland, New Zealand. She was born on 2nd July 1995. She is a YouTube celebrity and social media star with over 6.5 lakh subscribers on YouTube, 2.2 million fans on Facebook and about 689k followers on Instagram, as of now.Her family hails from Daman, India. At a very young age, her family moved to Dannemora, East Auckland, New Zealand.
Education She is doing her BCom from the University of Auckland and is also a marketing and publicity intern at the Auckland Council. Before gaining popularity, Shirley was a radio jockey on Radio Tarana with a regular show with the name ‘Showtime with Shirley’ which aired every Sunday.
First Live Performance In a tweet reply, Shirley said that here first live performance was the song – ‘Ik Tara’ of the ‘Wake up Sid’ fame in 2011.
Love Life About Setia’s love life, it’s all shrouded in mystery as of now. We can only say that her boyfriend would be really lucky.
Journey to being famous In 2013, T-Series ran a competition for which Shirley recorded a cover of the popular Hindi song Tum Hi Ho from her parent’s house in Dannemora. She won the competition among the thousands across the world but has also gathered a lot of views for her YouTube upload.
The Pajama Popstar While recording for T-series competition, she was wearing pajamas. This video became quite popular in a very short span of time. She became popular as “The Pyjama Popstar” by The NZ Herald News for her appearance in the video.
The Current Millennial’s Queen Shirley Setia is a famous personality among the teens and music lovers in India. She created her Facebook on 2013 and as mentioned, she now has 2.2 million fans on Facebook and 689k followers on Instagram.
Most popular video Her most popular video till date is her cover song “Sanam Re” from the Bollywood movie “Sanam Re” which was originally sung by Arijit Singh. Her video currently has over 1 crore views on YouTube.
Inspiration Shirley declared herself as a big fan of Asha Bhosle and KK. Setia made covers of a lot of their hit songs like Asha Bhosle’s Chura Liya Hai and KK’s Labon Ko.
Other Achievements Shirley is the winner of the BIG Golden Voice Award and also the Outlook Social Media Award for OSM Musician of the year. She got acknowledgment as “New YouTube sensation of India” by the Hindustan Times. You can check out Shirley’s YouTube channel here and tell us your views about her in the comment section below. And stay connected with us and you keep visiting our website ForumMantra and follow our Facebook page for more updates and news.