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The PropheC, born Neal Chatha on 8 September 1991 in Calgary, Alberta, is an Indo-Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer known for atmospheric Punjabi pop that blends R&B and hip hop. He broke through with the 2011 album Forever and the song Sohni, and built a worldwide diaspora following.

Where was The PropheC born and how did he start in music?

The PropheC was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to a Sikh family. His father is Daljit Chatha. He started singing at the age of five and was classically trained soon after, a grounding that stayed audible in his later work even as his production moved toward R&B and hip hop. By the age of sixteen he was producing his own beats and writing original songs in his basement in Calgary.

His first official song was Sohni, written in 2010 while he was still at university. Alongside music he completed his education, earning a degree in business marketing from Mount Royal University in Calgary. That mix of training shaped his career from the start: he sang, wrote, composed and produced his own records, and in 2012 he founded his own label, PropheC Productions, to release them himself.

How did The PropheC become known?

His debut studio album Forever arrived in 2011 and carried Sohni, one of his first hit singles. The whole album was sung, written, composed and produced by The PropheC himself. In 2013 he self released the mixtape The Dream Room, and that year he also began a lasting collaboration with Mickey Singh, working with him on the song Dukh. The partnership placed him inside the Urban Desi wave then reshaping Punjabi pop across North America and Britain.

The next album, Futureproof, followed in 2014 and gave him his first Top 10 placing on the Billboard World Albums chart. The Lifestyle came in 2016, carrying Kina Chir, which grew into one of his signature songs, and Hove Mere Naal, featuring the rapper Ikka. In January 2018 he released Vibe as a Saavn Artist Originals track, describing its aim as a current, atmospheric and wavy sound with different flows over his signature style.

The Season, Solace and the Sidhu Moose Wala collaboration

The Season arrived in 2019. In the same year he produced and sang on Sohne Lagde, the hit single by Sidhu Moose Wala, one of the most heard Punjabi songs of that period. His own work as a producer for other singers ran alongside his solo career throughout these years, with writing and production credits for artists including Raashi Sood, Raxstar and Ikka.

Solace, released in 2021, is widely treated as the most successful album of his career to that point and brought him wider global recognition. It carried songs including To The Stars, Nai Chaidi and Maula, recorded with the veteran singer Sardool Sikander. In March 2022 he headlined his debut multi city tour of India, opening in New Delhi and travelling to cities including Mumbai, Chandigarh, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Goa.

Selfiee, Midnight Paradise and The Remedy

In 2023 he made his Hindi film soundtrack debut in Selfiee, where Kudiyee Ni Teri, sung by The PropheC with Zahrah S Khan for actors Akshay Kumar and Mrunal Thakur, was built on his original composition Vibe, recreated for the film by Tanishk Bagchi. The same year he appeared on KSHMR's album KARAM, and released his own album Midnight Paradise, carrying Dilawara with Ezu, Manave with Mitraz and Mehrma.

The Remedy followed in December 2024, released through Mass Appeal. Across seven studio albums from Forever to The Remedy, plus The Dream Room mixtape, his catalogue has kept one thread: slow, spacious production, Punjabi lyrics written to be felt as much as heard, and choruses that travel well between Calgary, Punjab and the wider diaspora.

What is The PropheC's musical style?

The PropheC names A. R. Rahman and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on the South Asian side and Drake on the western side among his inspirations, and his sound sits exactly between those poles. Critics and fellow writers have long noted the atmosphere he builds: Punjabi singing over hip hop and R&B production, with classical training underneath. MensXP, writing in 2018, called him a trained producer and singer whose blend of Punjabi and global music sets a different atmosphere from the Punjabi mainstream around him.

His place in Punjabi music is that of the diaspora producer as artist. Born and based in Calgary, he never had to cross over from Punjab to the west or back again: he built the bridge inside his own songs, writing for second generation listeners whose lives are split in the same way. Collaborations with Mickey Singh, Fateh Doe, Amrit Maan, Sidhu Moose Wala, Pav Dharia, Ezu and Raxstar connect that Calgary studio to almost every corner of modern Punjabi pop, while PropheC Productions has kept the work independent and under his own control.