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In August 2013, Singh
featured along with Jassi
Sidhu in his Punjabi song
Hipshaker. Singh rapped in
the song Mauj Ki Malharein,
which played in the Bollywood
drama Gulaab Gang in
August 2014. In July 2013,
she released a song titled
#LEH in a collaboration with
her friend, author, and rapper
Kanwer Singh. She recorded
and released another music
video in February 2015 titled
The Clean Up Anthem in
collaboration with Canadian
artist Sickick. In April of the
same year, Singh released
a song about her hometown
Toronto in collaboration with
Humble the Poet titled #IVIVI.
On August 8, 2016, Singh
released a visual music piece
on YouTube, titled Voices,
which included five songs
portraying the ‘voices in her
head’. The piece has a genre
of Pop/Modern Hip Hop. The
songs included are a mix
showing signs of boasting,
fear of loneliness, lust,
goofiness, and positive views
promoting global peace. In
2018, Singh appeared in
the music video for Maroon
5’s ‘Girls Like You’ featuring
Cardi B.
In 2011, Singh made an
appearance as a background
dancer in the movies Speedy
Singhs and Thank You. In
2014, in the Indo-Canadian
production Dr. Cabbie, Singh
appeared in a small role. In
2016, in the animated film
Ice Age: Collision Course
and played a cameo role in Bad
Moms movie. She appeared
in the Disney Channel series
Bizaardvark as herself. Also,
she had several of her own
web series with I Love Makeup
channel on YouTube, including
Giving Back Glam, The Tube’s
Hautest, and Lana Steele:
Makeup Spy.
In 2017, Lilly Singh was
announced as a United
Nations International Children’s
Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
Goodwill Ambassador, to
advocate for children’s rights.
Accolades
In the year 2014, Lilly’s channel
SuperwomanVlogs ranked at
the 39th position on New
Media Rockstars Top 100
Channels. In 2015, an
American magazine of
celebrity and human interest
stories ‘People’ included
Singh on their annual ‘Ones
to Watch’ list. In 2016,
Forbes ranked Lilly in the 8th
place in the list of World’s
Top-Earning YouTube Stars
of 2015. The same year
she won two Teen Choice
Awards and later that year,
she won a People’s Choice
Award for Favorite YouTube
Star. In November 2017,
Lilly Singh was chosen as
an ambassador for Pantene
shampoo and partnered with
Calvin Klein.
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