
He came into lime light after his song Dil D Mamla Hia in 1980 amd then he recorded 27 albums and written over 200 songs.Gurdas's got fame in Punjab and his famous Punjabi album Apna Album won 1998 Asian Pop and media Award.
He has acted in the movies also like Waris Shah, which was nominated for Academy Award and Shaheed-E-Mohabaat, real life story of Boota Singh. Apart from singing Gurdas is multi-linguistic he know Hindi, Rajasthani, Hariyanvi, Begali, Tamil and many other language and song in all these languages.