Asa Singh Mastana

Asa Singh Mastana was a Punjabi musician and singer best known for lending his voice to the Bollywood movie Dooj Ka Chand and singing jugni and Heer-genre of folk songs, which recount the tales of Heer Ranjha by poet Waris Shah. He became popular in the 1940s, by the mid-1960s, when state-run All India Radio started promoting folk musicians, this made him, along with Surinder Kaur, Pushpa Hans, Madan Bala Sidhu, Prakash Kaur, singers of cult status.