Edmonton broadcaster, producer and realtor Sunny Sidhu passed away Friday after a lengthy battle with scleroderma and other health issues. He was 51.
In May, Sidhu underwent the amputation of his left leg due to vascular failure, following an angioplasty, after spending much of the last year in and out of hospital. He had undergone more than 35 surgeries since his diagnosis with the autoimmune disease at age 11.
A graduate of BCIT, Sidhu’s broadcasting career started at A-Channel in Edmonton in the mid-1990s as an entertainment anchor and fill-in weather host. He worked with the station for seven years, before pursuing freelance projects as a host and producer for MTV Asia, covering festivals and interviewing artists for the network’s markets in India, Pakistan, and Hong Kong, and later for the Channel V music network.
While continuing to pursue hosting, acting, voiceover, documentary and other projects, Sidhu simultaneously launched a successful career in real estate. Among his recent projects were 2022 short doc, Punjabi Pioneers of Alberta, which he wrote and starred in; and Singhs in the Ring, the forthcoming feature documentary on the Singh wrestling dynasty for Crave, on which he served as a producer and executive producer.
