1. Kanika Kapoor
Kanika Kapoor is a renowned playback signer in India. She is very much appreciated for her continuous efforts to keep her singing memorable and versatile. She is born and brought up in Lucknow. Being a singer by passion, she started her concerts at a very tender age of 12. She also collaborated with All India Radio then and moved along with family, to Mumbai to contribute more into music industry. Though she has been contributing to Indian Music industry consistently, she got a huge applaud in 2014. She sang the Baby Doll song in "Ragini MMS" and gained a huge appreciation from all kinds of audiences in India. This song has become so huge hit that it is awarded as the number one song of the year by Radio Mirchi, for the year 2014. This song also fetched her best female singer awar...
2. Shraddha Kapoor
Shraddha Kapoor, born on March 3rd, 1989, is a young emerging actress of Hindi Film Industry. She is the daughter of veteran actor Shakti Kapoor and niece of famous actress Padmini Kolhapure. Shraddha started her acting career in the year 2010 with a film called Teen Patti which had Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley and R. Madhavan in it. Though the film did not do well at the box office, her performance got some attention. Her second film was Luv Ka the End (a teen comedy), opposite Taaha Shah, which failed to perform at the box office but Shraddha’s performance in the movie was very well appreciated by the film critics. Even after giving two consecutive flops, Shraddha went on to take a major risk and cancelled her three-film contract with Yash Raj Films, signing a Mohit Suri directorial flick Aashiqui...
3. Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became ...
4. Mihir Joshi
Mihir Joshi is a Bollywood Hindi singer, anchor, show host, and radio jockey. He was born on 15 March 1981. He did his Engineering in Electronics from the Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering. He started his career with the stage name Music Man Mihir as a Radio Jockey. He formed and fronted three English Bands that consists of The King Keys in 2006, The Works in 2007, and The Mihir Joshi Band in 2012. His first Hindi band named Bombay Rock Project is known for its performance at India’s Got Talent Season 3.
He hosted two television shows – ICICI Direct Aspire on Zee Business and Maruti Suzuki Colors of Youth on MTV India. Mihir and his band won an award for his debut album Mumbai Blues. His first album was released on 31 May 2014, produced by Ashish Manchanda. It was recorded at Ranjit Barot's Nirvana ...
5. Sourav Roy
Sourav Roy was born in a small town in West Bengal, Asansol. Sourav's father worked in the government as well as a table player, and his mother was a vocalist. He has completed his degree from Trinity College of Music and has learned music from Mr. Sam Engineer in Kolkata. He won awards as a composer and producer. He is also a singer-songwriter and an Independent Artist. He was a part of Fusion bands such as TaalYagna and TaalTantra, and after some time, Sourav started working as a full-time arranger and producer. Sorry Bhai, his first project in Mumbai, debuted in 2008.
He also collaborated with well-known music directors such as Vishal Shekhar, Pritam, Amit Trivedi, Amaal Malik, Meet Bros, and Anand Raj Anand. He also served as a music composer for the 2016 film 'Banjo,' as well as composing background themes. Lat...
6. Shaan
Shantanu Mukherjee is a very popular singer and known by the name of Shaan. He was born on September 30, 1972. His grandfather Jahar Mukherjee was the lyricist, his father Manas Mukherjee was the late music director, and his sister Sagarika is a singer. Shaan lost his father at the age of 13 after that his mother became a singer and took the responsibility of the entire family.
Shaan is very talented Indian playback singer who can sing in so many languages like Kannada, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Bengali, and Hindi as well as he is a TV host. He hosted some popular TV reality shows like STAR Voice of India 2, Star Voice of India, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Also, he has sung various Pakistani songs.
Shaan is known as the most versatile singer, and he is very famous for singing melodio...
7. Armaan Malik
On 22 July, 1995, Armaan Malik was born in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a playback singer by profession. Armaan belongs to a music family. His father, Daboo Malik, is also a singer and music director. The singer is the nephew of the famous Hindi music director, Anu Malik. Armaan has a brother, Amaal Malik, who is also a music director.
He is a student of Qadir Ghulam Mustafa Khan Sahab and Mrs. Rita Kaul, who have been training him for the past ten years. At a very young age, Armaan started his music career by participating in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs. It was a music reality show. He was a finalist and stood eight in the show.
Earlier, the singer was with Universal Music India, but now works under the banner of T-Series for his singles. The singer started singing fr...
8. Gulzar
Gulzar is the pen name of the author, poet and popular lyricist Sampooran Singh Karla. He was born on the 18th of August in 1934 in Dina, Jhelum district of British India to parents Makhan Singh Karla and Sujan Kaur. His career kicked off under the directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His songwriting career began with the movie Bandini, released 1963, for the tunes composed by music director Sachin Dev Burman. From then on, he went on to write the lyrics for many memorable songs of the Bollywood industry. He worked with magnanimous music directors like R. D. Burman, S. D. Burman, A. R. Rahman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik to name a few. The work of the trio Maniratnam, A. R .Rahman and Gulzar is much remembered in the industry. He has also given dialogues and scree...
9. Vishal Bhardwaj
10. Pritam Chakraborty
11. Shahid Kapoor
Shahid Kapoor also identifies as the name Shahid Khattar. He is an Indian movie or film artist or say, actor. He was born in the year 1981, February 25. He is being honoured with the two Awards of Film fare from the four suggested nominations. The boy child of the actors Neelima Azeem and Pankaj Kapur, the junior Kapoor commenced his professional career by acting in some musical videos and commercial videos of television. He started his debut movie by playing the lead role in a romantic and passionate comedy movie, named “IshqVishk” in the year 2003. For the movie “IshqVishk”, Shahid won an Award of Film fare event for best male actor for a debut. Shahid Kapoor pursued it with playing the roles in the minor booming movies like as Fida in the year 2004 and movie Shikhar in the year 2005. Then, he was starring in ...
12. Amit Trivedi
13. Ankit Tiwari
Ankit Tiwari was born on March 6, 1986 in Kanpur, India. He is a drastically advancing music composer and a playback singer who had given back to back hit albums and songs. He got into the Bollywood Cinema world in the year 2010 until the present. His works are quite impressive and blissful listening to them. Initially, he entered into the film industry as a music director after which he also lingered into playback singing. In the year 2013, he got an award for the music director category. Also, his album contested for a couple of awards in the Filmfare Awards.
This is a jump start for any music director and Ankit Tiwari proved out to be one. He sang the song, namely Galiyan for the movie Ek Villain and he contested again for a couple of awards. But this time he got nominated in the playback singing category. H...
14. A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman is a Legendary Music Composer, prominently known for his rocking music for the movie “The Slumdog Millionaire”. He had won a couple of Oscars for this album and made India proud. Allah-Rakha Rahman’s birth name is A.S.Dileep Kumar. He was born on January 6th, 1967 in Chennai. His music journey had begun at the age of 4 when he learned piano. At the age of 11, he joined the Maestro Ilayaraja's troupe as a Keyboard player. He made his debut as a composer with the legendary film-maker G.R.Maniratnam’s film “Roja” which came out in 1992. Some of his popular music albums were for the movies like Rangeela, Bombay, Dil Se and Lagaan: Once upon a time in India.
He is known to be the Redefining Contempora...
15. Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including the song, "Breathless," in which he sings throughout the whole song without pausing to breathe and “Nine” - Nine is Shankar's most recent album. Each song is a representation of a "mood," including joy, sadness, love, etc. He was also invited by UNESCO and the US State Department to perform at the UN General Assembly Hall for the finale of the International Jazz Festival on 30 Apr...
16. Arijit Singh
Most famous for his songs in Aashiqui 2, Arijit Singh has established himself as a prominent playback singer and music programmer. He was the runner-up in Fame Gurukul, a singing competition, in 2005. He then went on to win another singing reality show, 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil.
Born in 1987 in West Bengal, Arjit was trained in classical music by his aunt and mother. He had a passion for music from an early age and his parents decided to get him a professional trainer, Rajendra Prasad Hazari for classical music and Dhirendra Prasad Hazari to train him at tabla. His teachers encouraged Arijit to try out for Fame Gurukul in 2005 and chose to promote the Indian classical music genre.
Pritam Chakraborty gave Arjit a chance and signed him for three films; Crook, Golmaal 3, and Action R...
17. Zakir Hussain
Zakir Hussain is a veteran and prominent film and television actor from India. He was famous for doing comedic and negative roles and his best performance was from the dramatic film, Sarkar in 2005 where he played the role of Rasheed; a don from Dubai. Followed by this is the 2007 neo-noir film, Johnny Gaddaar by Sriram Raghavan. He is Shardul, one of the gang that operates a gambling club along with Vikram (played by Neil Nitin Mukesh), Prakash (played by Vinay Pathak), Swshadri (played by Dharmendra) and Shiva (played by Dayanand Shetty). He was notably remembered by every people on the street and they started to call him Shardul. This is the film that pays him well and gained him so much fame.
Zakir was born and raised up in the village of Janikhurd Tehsil in the district of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He got f...