Guru Randhawa premieres Sirra remix with Steve Aoki at EDC Orlando

Punjabi singer Guru Randhawa joined American DJ Steve Aoki on stage at the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Orlando, Florida, to premiere Aoki's remix of Randhawa's hit song Sirra. The two performed it during Aoki's Day 2 set on Saturday, 7 November, at the festival's Orlando edition, which ran from 6 to 8 November at Tinker Field. The remix is already out on streaming platforms through Warner Music India.

Sirra is a track from Randhawa's album Without Prejudice. Aoki turns it into an electronic dance number, and the remix is his first venture into Punjabi pop, according to Bollywood Hungama and DNA. Aoki has earlier worked with Indian singers including Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chauhan. The original Sirra has 356 million streams and 550 million YouTube views, the figures given in the promotional material carried by Hindustan Times and The Times of India.

“Representing India and our sound on the EDC mainstage is a massive honour,” Randhawa said ahead of the show. “Steve Aoki and I have built something special with the Sirra remix that completely fuses two very distinct worlds.” Aoki said in the same announcement: “Electronic music is all about breaking boundaries and bridging cultures, so having Guru Randhawa join me on the EDC mainstage is incredible.”

Coverage of the set has described Randhawa as the first India-born artist and the first Punjabi performer on the EDC mainstage, and some headlines went further and called him the first Indian to perform at EDC. That wider claim does not hold. Indian electronic act Nucleya played EDC India in November 2016, EDC Mexico on 26 February 2017 and EDC Las Vegas in June 2017, where he was listed on the circuitGROUNDS stage, according to EDM.com, Festival Sherpa and The Bangin Beats. We could not independently confirm the mainstage claim, so it is attributed to the festival coverage and the promotional material.

Randhawa's next big show is at home. He is set to return to live touring after a three-year break with “Sirra Era Live in Concert” at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on 12 December, which he has described as a homecoming concert.