Shirley Setia Biography

Shirley Setia is an Indo-Kiwi singer and performer hailing from Auckland, New Zealand. She is known for her YouTube videos where she performs on Hindi songs. She happens to be a University of Auckland graduate and has worked as publicity and marketing intern at Auckland Council. Her fame is a result of a happy incident. Indian music label T-Series organized a competition and Shirley, just for fun, recorded a video for a song in her bedroom, in her pyjamas. She ended up being one of the winners of the competition and this opened ways for her to take her talent to thousands of people and she started making and uploading more videos. And now, she has become a celebrity and has collaborated with YouTube stars across Canada, India and UK. Very recently, she shifted her base to Mumbai to try her luck in the Indian film industry. She has been recognized by several media houses. New Zealand Herald wrote a feature on her and gave her a moniker ‘Pyjama Artist’, Forbes magazine said that she is ‘Bollywood’s next big singing sensation’ and Hindustan Times also ran a story on her praising her as the next big thing on Internet.