Taran Kaur Dhillon known by her stage name Hard Kaur, is a British Indian rapper and hip hop singer; as well as playback singer and an actress in Bollywood. She is often credited to be the first female Indian rapper. Hard Kaur was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where her mother ran a small beauty parlour in the house. When she was young, her father was burnt alive during 1984 Anti-Sikh riots and her mother's beauty parlour was burnt a few days after her father's death. Her paternal grandparents asked her mother to leave their house. Subsequently she, her brother and her mother moved to Hoshiarpur to her maternal grandparents house, where they stayed for the next couple of years. In 1991 her mother remarried a British citizen and her family moved to Birmingham, England, where her mother started working and studying to eventually open a beauty salon. Meanwhile Hard Kaur did her schooling. After developing interest in hip-hop she started her music career as a rapper.