Mami Varte
Zila Khan
Apeksha Dandekar
Nicki Wells
Samidha Joglekar
Bianca Gomes
Suman Sridhar
Dominique Cerejo
Alisha Batth
Natalie Di Luccio
Nandini Srikar
Sonu Kakkar
Shilpa Rao
Monali Thakur
Mili Nair
Usha Uthup
Kaushiki Chakraborty
Jyoti Nooran
Sultana Nooran
Sugandha Garg
Shruti Pathak
Harshdeep Kaur
Banjyotsna Borgohain
Mandeep Sethi
Ash Roy
Moora Lala
Dhruv Sangari
Mahesh Vinayakram
Prasad Khaparde
Shriram Iyer
Jake Charkey
Sawan Khan Manganiyar
Mame Khan
Ashwin Srinivasan
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
Devendra Pal Singh
Samar Khan
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Karsh Kale
Supavitra Babul
Divya Kumar
Shantanu Moitra
Papon
Nitin Sawhney
Altamash Faridi
Vishal Dadlani
Vijay Prakash
Salim Merchant
Piyush Mishra
Ehsaan Noorani
Clinton Cerejo
Bonnie Chakraborty
Raghubir Yadav
Master Saleem
Benny Dayal
Swanand Kirkire
Hitesh Sonik
Amit Trivedi
Shadab Faridi
Loy Mendonsa
Jasbir Jassi
Vignesh Lakshminarayanan
Ganeshram Nagarajan
1. Mami Varte
Mami Varte is an Indian singer who has worked in several movies and albums. Mami was born on 19 April 1988. Her actual name is Lalrinkimi Varte. She is a Mizo singer, and very popular in north-east India. She began singing at the age of 12. She performed in several local functions and stage shows. Mami released her first album in the year 2007.
The name of the album was Damlai Par. She has appeared in shows like Indian Idol and Coke Studio. She was the judge of the show Mizo Idol Season 4. She started working from 2004 and is still active in the industry.
...2. Zila Khan
Zila Khan is an Indian singer who has worked in several movies, series, and albums. Zila is the daughter of the legendary sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan. Zila was trained by her father from a very young age. By a very strict practice of 16-17 hours a day, Zila mastered in classical music and got the interest in it. Zila has performed in many national and international music festivals. Zila has been singing in various genres such as Indian Classical, Semi-Classical, Sufi, Folk & Bhakti Sangeet. Zila Khan is also a Music Therapist and Consultant. The first Music Therapy wing in India was started by her.
In the year 2004, the Ministry of External Affairs had asked Zila Khan to make a documentary on the life of her father. The documentary is named as Spirit to Soul. Zila Khan is regularly ...
3. Apeksha Dandekar
Apeksha Dandekar is an Indian singer who has done few songs in the Bollywood music industry. Apeksha was passionate about singing from her childhood. She has done several stage shows and she is often praised for her melodious voice.
In 2011 he did songs for the movie Always Kabhi Kabhi and then few more movies such as Aatma in 2013 and Zubaan in 2016.
...4. Nicki Wells
Music heals the soul, nourishes and cleans the mind. But making such kind of music in itself is a difficult feat to accomplish. This holds many years to understand, practice, and ability to make the music spiritual. This feat has artfully achieved by the global music star Nicki Wells. Her songs are a dynamic combination of melody, tranquility, and spirituality. And what stands out most in her songs is that she understands the deeper nuances of the music she makes, inspired by many different cultures. Mainly, you can see and hear her love and appreciation for Indian classical music in most of her songs.
Although Wells grew up near the hillocks of the Himalayas, she was born in London and did most of her schooling there. Later, she came back to India to study classical music. As a result of her diverse upbringing, she also travel...
5. Samidha Joglekar
Samidha Joglekar is an Indian singer who has worked in various Hindi movies and series. Samidha made her debut in the year 2012. In 2012 she was a performer in the soundtrack of Midnight's Children. She was also seen acting in the short film Kathakas. Then in the year 2013, she worked as a vocalist in the TV series documentary P.O.V. She has done her bachelor of Health Sciences degree (BHSc. Honours) from 2001-2005 in McMaster University. Then she did Master of Clinical Science in Audiology (M.Cl.Sc), from 2007-2010 at The University of Western Ontario.
Samidha is a part-time research audiologist with the Sunnybrook cochlear implant program and a part-time clinical audiologist with audiology services. She is the Recipient of the Peter Newby Memorial Entrance Award, 2007. She is also...
6. Bianca Gomes
Bianca Gomes is a playback singer who began to sing professionally at the age of fifteen. She is famous for tracks such as ‘Aunty ji’ from Ek Main Aur Ek Tu and ‘Rootha’ from TE3N. She is from the middle-east, where she has sing with some of the most popular gig bands. Three years later, she moved to Mumbai, where she sang on resident band contracts with the Taj and Oberoi hotels.
She also gigged with some of the hottest pop bands of Mumbai. Other than pop, she is also an expert in other music genres, such as rock, soul, funk, blues, and jazz. Her soulful renditions have gotten her the opportunity to work with some of the best musicians and music directors in Mumbai. She has now joined forces with Clinton Cerejo to be a part of a new band called Shor Police.
Before shifting her base to Mumba...
7. Suman Sridhar
Suman Sridhar is a prominent Indian poet, singer, and songwriter. She was born and raised up in Mumbai. She attended St. Anthony’s Girls High School in Chembur. Music came from her roots; her father is a self-thought harmonium and table player, while her mother is a trained classical (Carnatic and Hindustani) singer. When she turned 14, she and her family shifted to New Jersey, U.S.A. She took a degree in Western Music and Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes were Suman’s early music influences. She had worked in theatre, films, and performance art. Suman co-founded the eclectic pop-jazz-rock duo, Sridhar/Thayil, in 2008. Jeet Thayil is a poet, songwriter, and guitarist from Kerala.
According to the Rolling Stone magazine, the duo redefines the Indie mu...
8. Dominique Cerejo
Dominique Cerejo is an Indian female playback singer. She is best known for “Yeh Tumhari Meri Baatein” from Rock ON!!. She made her debut in Indian music industry in early 90’s as a background vocalist for “Tadap Tadap Ke” and title track of “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.
”Dominique did her Bachelor of Commerce from Poddar College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She married her college friend Clinton Cerejo. Clinton also works in Indian music Industry and sung many soundtracks alongside Dominique.
Dominique always loved singing. She used to participate in the competitions held in Church of her locality and later took singing classes to develop her skills. In her early days, she used to sing in advertisements jingles.
She sang various tracks as a background singer and she fi...
9. Alisha Batth
Alisha Batth is an Indian singer and songwriter, who is well-known for single, “flood.” She was born in Punjab and later, moved to Arunachal Pradesh when she was 2 years old. She grew up in Arunachal Pradesh with her parents. She completed her schooling at Arunachal Pradesh. Alisha Batth used to play Badminton in her school’s junior Badminton Team. After completing her 10, she moved to Delhi to complete her further studies. As a kid, she used to play violin. At first, she used to play violin because it was compulsory to play an instrument, but after quite a time, she got used to it and loved playing the violin a lot. She was not into music at first, but after moving to Delhi, she developed a keen interest in music. She was the part of her school band and used to play guitar.
She gave various performances when ...
10. Natalie Di Luccio
Natalie Di Luccio was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the 29th of June. She is a classical singer, crossover type. She mainly sings in Italian-Canadian lyrics. She has also sung some Bollywood songs. In Bollywood, she is also known as “Bollywood’s Soprano”. In 2010 she released some of her videos of Bollywood songs on YouTube. Her voice and the way of singing attracted one of the best music composer and director present in the world, A. R. Rahman. Her YouTube videos got millions of views, and she became famous overnight. She has even performed with Amit Trivedi in the MTV Coke Studio.
Her career as a playback singer in Bollywood began when she sang her first song alongside Sonu Nigam, who was her co-singer. Since then she has worked in many feature Bollywood films like Befikre, English Vinglish, Chennai Ex...
11. Nandini Srikar
Nandini Srikar is a singer, composer, and a talented Guitar player from India. She is also a songwriter, producer, and programmer. As a versatile musician, she has released her first solo album in the year 2011 named "Beete pal" with collaborations with various artists like Kai Eckhardt, Michael Pope, Vivek Rajagopalan and others. Nandini Srikar was born on the 10th day of August, in the year 1969 and her star sign is Virgo. Nandini Srikar is married to Srikar Kalluri.
They both completed 25 years of wedlock on 26th January 2016. They have a daughter named Nishika Srikar. Nandini Srikar is from South India and now lives in Mumbai, India. At a very little age of three, Nandini Srikar started learning how to play the Veena. As she grew she starte...
12. Sonu Kakkar
Indian playback singer and album artist Sonu Kakkar was born in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. Neha Kakkar, and Tony Kakkar are the siblings of Sonu kakkar. She started singing jaguars when she was five years old. She was the contestant of the V channel shows Indian Pop Star. Music director Sandeep Chowta gave her first song Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo, and this is the most famous song in her career.
Sonu is a versatile singer and has been a playback singer for many regional language films including Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu, Marathi, Nepali, Malayalam, Punjabi, Hindi and Bengali films. In 2019 she gave her voice to song Teri Bahon Mein.
...13. Shilpa Rao
Shilpa Rao is perhaps the youngest Bollywood singer who made her debut with her song “Tose Naina’ from the movie ‘Anwar’ which was composed by music director Mithoon. This singer was a discovery of music composer Mithoon. She got the chance to sing her debut song when she was studying in college. It is said that her father groomed up this singer when she was young. She had her first training from her father S. Venkat Rao who was a music graduate.
Shilpa was born on 11 April 1984 in Jamshedpur. The singer found her initial opportunity by performing Live with singer Hariharan at different venues. She even won a national level hunt contest in New Delhi. It was Shankar Mahadevan, one of the judges in the contest, who advised her to ...
14. Monali Thakur
Monali Thakur is a Kolkata-born playback singer and actress. Born in a musical family, Monali's father is a renowned Bengali Playback singer and her sister, Mehuli Thakur, is also a Playback singer. Monali's singing talent was initially recognized when she'd won the Best Playback Singer award at the 'Amandalok Awards', for the serial 'Sri Rama Krishna' at the age of 14. She'd been trained under Padma Shri Pandit Jagdish Prasad and Padma Shri Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty for Hindustani music. Monali's singing career started when she auditioned for Indian Idol 2 (the Indian version of Pop Idol) in 2005. Monali had been well acclaimed for her singing by the judging panel that included Anu Malik, Sonu Nigam, and Farah Khan.
She was placed ninth in the competition, but recognizing her ...
15. Mili Nair
Mili Nair, born on April 7th in Mumbai, educated in Pune and Bangalore, is a singer and songwriter in India. She sings in English, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada and Hindi. She was a student of journalism at the Mount Carmel, Bangalore and did music training in Trinity School of London and Royal School of Music. She is trained in Western classical vocals and Carnatic music. She became famous when she sang Badari Badariya and Yatra, both composed by the famous music director Amit Trivedi at the Coke Studio Season 2 on MTV.
She has recorded music with composers like AR Rahman, Amit Trivedi and Pritam. In 2009, she shared the stage with the famous guitar player Vinny Valentino at the Java Jazz Festival. She loved jazz music because of the freedom it offered to her and always listened to the tracks of Ella Fitzg...
16. Usha Uthup
Song ‘Ramba Ho’ from the movie Armaan mesmerizes all of us today also and that masculine voice of legendary lady Usha Uthup thrill the listeners.
Usha Uthup was born on 7 November 1947 in a Tamil Brahmin family in Mumbai. She did her education from St.Agnes High School, Mumbai and she has sung in 15 Indian Languages and Various Foreign Languages. Her next door neighbours daughter Jamila, inspired her to learn Hindi which later helped her to create a...
17. Kaushiki Chakraborty
Kaushiki was born on October 24 in the year 1980 in Kolkata. She is a great and eminent Classical Vocalist of the Indian origin. She belongs to a well-reputed and well-known family in Kolkata. She has her training in the style of “gayaki” of Gharana of Patiala. She honed her singing skills at the “Sangeet Research Academy” where her father taught. She is well trained in the ‘semi-classical” and “light classical” music genre which includes “khayals” and “thumris”. She has received many applauds and accolades for her passion for music as well talent. She has been recognized and honored by various national and international awards like the BBC award in the year 2005. She has shown her skill and talent in various national and international ...
18. Jyoti Nooran
Jyoti Nooran is a Punjabi Sufi singer and the sister of Sultana Nooran. The sister’s duo became popular around the country and internationally. They rose to fame after their performance of the super hit song Tung Tung at the MTV Sound Tripping. Jyoti was born on February 24, 1994 in Jalandhar, India.
Jyoti came from a family of musicians. She is the granddaughter of the late Bibi Nooran, who is a very popular Punjabi singer during her time. Her father, Ustad Gulshan Meer, trained her and her sister in the traditional Sufi Music for the past ten years and since then they have decided to stick on singing Sufi music only. Gulshan is also composing and arranging music for her daughter’s concerts and other performances.
Her sin...
19. Sultana Nooran
Sultana Nooran was born in Jalandhar, Punjab. She is a singer and is inclined towards Sufi music. Sultana hails from a family of musicians. Her father Ustad Gulshan Mir trained her to achieve the true zest for music and its divinity. She has a sister named Jyoti Nooran, who is also attached to the musical tradition. Nooran’s grandmother Bibi Nooran was a popular Punjabi Sufi singer of her time in the 70’s. Sultana has been trained in traditional “Sufi Music” for the past ten years. Their family follows Sham Chaurasi Gharana and Mirasi traditions of music.
Her father composes the music and arrangements for Sultana’s concerts and live performances. The Nooran sisters appeared on the TV show “Nikki Awaaz Punjab Di” and were praised ...
20. Sugandha Garg
Sugandha Garg is famously known as an Actor, Singer and a Host. In her Personal life, Sugandha Garg completed her higher studies from Maitreyi College, Delhi University. She got married to Raghu Ram, who is the host of popular reality shows. He is also a Producer. Recently, the news of their split has spread like fire. In the year 2008, Garg played the role of Shaleen as one of the friends in the group in the movie Jaane Tu...Yaa Jaane Naa. This film was very successful and was popular especially among the youth. The next year that is 2009, she appeared in a feature, Let's Dance in which she played the role of the best friend of the female lead. Finally in the hit comedy flick, Tere Bin Laden she played an important part of a makeup artist. She has also worked in a British Comedy series, Mumbai Calling ...
21. Shruti Pathak
Shruti Pathak stepped into the film industry as a singer. Her first two songs, 'Sudu Sude', 'Guchchi Guchchi' for a Telugu movie, ‘Bujjigadu: Made in Chennai’ and the next song, 'Awaara Dil' for the Hindi movie, Money Hai Toh Honey Hai, weren't massive hits. However, on her third strike towards her goal of becoming a star singer, she hit it with 'Mar Jawaan', from ‘Fashion’.
She went on to be nominated for this very song, to be Filmfare's best Female Playback Award in the year 2008. She had more offers coming her way since. She went on to sing for the films; Dev.D, Kurbaan, Luck, Admissions Open, Anjaana Anjaani, Love Breakups Zindagi, Ra One, Players, Kai Po Che, Gori Tere Pyaar Mein, ...
22. Harshdeep Kaur
Harshdeep Kaur is an Indian playback singer who has been singing for Bollywood movies since 2003 and also a well known name in Sufi genre of songs. She rose to fame by appearing in reality musical programmed and even bagged the title ‘Sufi Ki Sultana’ form legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan for a program ‘ Lux Junoon – Kuch Kar Dikhaane Ka’ that was aired on NDTV Imagine in September 2008. She has also participated in ‘Home World Tour’ program organized by music maestro A R Rahman in 2010 and had toured all over USA, Canada, UK, South Africa. In 2014, she accompanied the maestro Rahman again for ‘Infinite Love Concerts’ in Singapore and Malaysia.
Harshdeep Kaur entered movie playback singing with her first song ‘Sajna Main Haari’ for film...
23. Banjyotsna Borgohain
24. Mandeep Sethi
Mandeep Sethi is an Indian singer who is the owner of the band SetiX. Mandeep is doing great work with the band. The motto of the band is to produce vibrations and sounds that connect with space and time and affects straight our DNA. The band has done tours around the country and various foreign places.
They have shared the stage with various other popular bands, and artists. Mandeep also works on documentary films. The documentary film which he creates with his team also moves around music.
...25. Ash Roy
Ash Roy is an Indian DJ who has worked in various national and international shows. Ash has been working in this field for more than seventeen years now. He is very famous and has a huge fan following in countries like Germany, the USA, India, Sweden, Netherlands, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, Denmark, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bahrain.
He is an individual producer. Ash’s music taste moves around minimal to tech-house to techno. He has done several works for the brand level Soupherb. International levels include Trapez Ltd., Creepy Finger, Monocline, Buena Onda, and Ash has always been appreciated for his work.
...26. Moora Lala
Moora Lala is an Indian musician from Kutch, Gujarat, India. Moora is a sufi singer. His full name is Moorala Marwada. Moorala is from the Janana village of the Kutch District. Moora sings the poetry of great Indian poets such as Kabir, Mirabai, and Ravidas.
He worked in the Gujarati Film Hellaro, and was seen playing the role of a singer.
...27. Dhruv Sangari
Dhruv Sangari is an Indian vocalist who has worked in several movies and series. Dhruv is also known as Bilal Chishty Sangari. He has also got the nickname Prince of Qawwali. He is a Sufi and Classical Indian vocalist, composer, lyricist, savant and teacher. Dhruv is the son of well-known scholar and author Kumkum Sangari and noted painter Mahendra 'Manu' Sangari. At the age of seven, Sangari started his training from Shahana Bannerjee and Ustad Iqbal Ahmad Khan. He got trained in playing Tabla from B.S. Ramanna. After few years, he got inclined towards Sufi music and got training in qawwali from Ustad Meraj Ahmed Nizami and Nizamuddin Auliya. He met the legendary Pakistani Qawwali singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in mid-90s and got a chance to get trained under him.
He studie...
28. Mahesh Vinayakram
Mahesh Vinayakram is an Indian Vocalist, son of the Ghatam legend Padmabhushan T.H.Vikku Vinayakram. Vinayakram got his master’s degree in sociology & secretaryship from Madras University and Annamalai University. Later he decided to chase his passion for music. Mahesh is the first Indian male singer to be cast in the theater Cirque du Soleil. He is also honored with the UNESCO Millennium award. Mahesh started his career as a solo vocalist at the age of 12 & he is a senior student of Smt. Radha Viswanathan who is the daughter of Bharat Ratna Smt. M.S.Subbulakshmi, and Shri. Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer who is a renowned Carnatic musician.
Mahesh had opportunities to get training from Gurusra like Shri H.Y. Narayanan, Shri O.S. Thiagarajan, Smt. Savithiri Sathyamurthy, and Shr...
29. Prasad Khaparde
Pt. Prasad Khaparde is a specialized Hindustani classical vocalist under the tutelage of Ustad Rashid Khan of Rampur Sahaswan Gharana. He is gifted with such a euphonious voice that no one can deny listening to him. Prasad is the senior disciple and had the privilege of learning from virtuoso Rashid Khan at the ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata. He has performed enormously all over India during major festivals as well as abroad too. Khaparde is one of the most proficient musicians all around India. Today, he is considered the greatest vocalist in the field of Indian Classical music. He came from the small village 'Ghatanji ' in the ' Yavatmal ' district of Maharashtra and did not learn from the prestigious musicians. He was born in 1973 to a devoted music family. His father Purushottamji and mother Sindhutai Kh...
30. Shriram Iyer
Shriram Iyer is an emerging playback singer and composer who has sung various songs for Bollywood Industry and television reality shows. He is the member and lead singer of the band named “OM the Fusion Band.” He is a splendid singer who has performed in famous cities and abroad along with his band. He is the voice behind some of the superhit Bollywood movies, such as Iqbal, Shor in the City, No one Killed Jessica, etc. Iyer is mostly known by the name Ram. He married Uthara Iyer, and they have one boy child. His harmonious voice has caught so many hearts and is now getting higher day by day. He is an eye-catching man because he is a better performing artist than a playback singer. He is the king of live concerts and has done more than 2000 live performances across India.
Iyer has focused more on his live conce...
31. Jake Charkey
Jake Charkey is an award-winning musician. Jake is trained in American western and Hindustani classical music. He is also a cellist, composer & producer. Jake is the co-founder of Rose Productions. Jake is a student of the violinist Padmabhushan Dr. N. Rajam. He is trained in the rare Gayaki Ang style and is one of the few cellists in the world performing Indian music on the cello.
He recorded for dozens of movies and has worked with many of the most renowned artists in Bollywood, such as Zakir Hussain, Hariharan, Yesudas, Arijit Singh, and Master Saleem. Jake was an Emmy Award nominee for his work in 'Sacred Games' and has the Best Background Score Zee Cine Award for the film 'Airlift'. Popular works of Jake includes Incredible India: The Yogi of the Race Track, Wal...
32. Sawan Khan Manganiyar
A Rajasthani folk artist who has not only got a magnificent voice but also is acquainted with the varied genres of music is ‘Sawan Khan Manganiyar.’ He is also a phenomenal storyteller and has the unique ability to narrate so greatly that he takes you into the story with himself. Since his childhood, he has been associated with music as his family has been pursuing music for a very long time. His ancestors have performed in royal courts, wedding processions of the Rajputs, etc. He deduces “music is like a wind which can strike from anywhere, and the same happened with him a long time back.” He began learning music at an early age and used to practice all the time. Later, he commenced performing for the village people. Further, he went to Pakistan along with his cousin to pursue his passion. His first grand show ...
33. Mame Khan
Born and raised in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India, Mame khan is an Indian playback and folk singer, who is famous for singing Rajasthani folk songs and Sufi songs. He made his singing debut in Bollywood in 2009 in the film Luck by Chance with Shankar Mahadevan. However, he got recognition only after he appeared in Coke studio alongside Amit Trivedi. Mame Khan hails from the Manganiyar community,
who has been carrying the tradition of singing for fifteen generations. His father (Late Ustad Rana Singh) and his family members were his prime tutors in teaching him singing. Along with the members of his tribe, he has sung in more than sixty countries.
He has lent his voice in several Hindi films such as No One killed Jessica, Mirzya, Sonchiriya, etc. He also sang for television commercial clients like Samsung. Hotstar and Star ...
34. Ashwin Srinivasan
Ashwin Srinivasan is an Indian Classical flutist, film composer, music producer, singer, and poet.. He has successfully collaborated in western classical, jazz, fusion, Hollywood and Bollywood with famous artists in the world. He was born in a family of musicians. He was introduced to Indian Classical music at the age of two and started learning the ‘Sitar’ under the guidance of his mother.
At the age of seven, he was intrigued by the ‘Bansuri.’ He is one of the youngest A-grade artists with All India Radio and a recipient of the ‘Sur-Mani’ award. He has performed in many esteemed festivals like Panchakshari Gavai Mahotsav and Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan. As a composer / producer, he worked on a theatre production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It,” which was directed by one of U...
35. Harish Sivaramakrishnan
A rockstar from a Carnatic Progressive Rock Band called Agam is a musician, frontman, and UI-UX designer for an online money recharge company, Freecharge.
He started his career with Ascendum Solutions, a startup with his BITS Pilani seniors. He has definitely come so far, and as an artist within, he appreciates symmetry and beauty. Currently, he's focusing on making the world’s first markup-based UI framework. Most of the members of his band are from BITS as well.
Agam has collaborated with several individual musicians over the course of five years, like Shreya Ghosal. They also have a really huge fan following on social networks like Facebook & Instagram.
Harish Sivaramakrishnan was born on 27th September 1980 in Shoranur in Palakkad, Kerala. Harish started learning Carnatic music at the age ...
36. Devendra Pal Singh
Reality shows have been a blessing in disguise for many young and talented tiddlers, who want to achieve big in their career. Indian Idol is a platform, which has given the country mellifluent voices. One such voice which enthralled the nation was the young Punjabi lad named Devendra Pal Singh, who with his innocent looks and soulful melody took away the viewers by their feet. This 22- year-old Punjabi Munda was hailed from Ludhiana in Punjab, where he spent his childhood and completed his studies. He started singing at the age of 6 and had been learning classical music under the guidance of his music guru, Ustaad Ji.
He belongs to a family of music lovers, who supported him throughout his musical journey. Unlike other children of his age, he doesn't like to hang out with his friends. Instead, he spends a lot of time playin...
37. Samar Khan
Samar Khan is a popular Indian Film Director, who has worked predominantly in Bollywood. He is popularly known for the film Shaurya, which broke the records of the box office.He is a former journalist, writer, and director who has presented original series called “Regiment Diaries” in 2018 that took you behind the heavily guarded gates of Army centers on Epic Channel.
His previous film Shaurya, broke the record of Indian cinema in the year 2008 and before then Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye, praised by the audience in the year 2005.He was the director and the writer of both the respective films. He is an extraordinary artist, also recognized as a producer (creative producer and executive producer) of 11 other splendid TV series. Recently, Samar Khan presented as an executive producer of an Indian drama Web series titled CodeM...
38. Mahalakshmi Iyer
Mahalakshmi Iyer was born on 21 March 1990, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She is a professional Indian singer and playback singer. Iyer is best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung songs in many other Indian languages like Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Assamese, and Kannada. She belonged to a piece of Tamil music backgrounded family. Iyer was the daughter of her mother, who is a Carnatic classical singer as well. She started taking classes in Hindustani music at a very young age. Iyer has three sisters named, Kalpana, Padmini, and Shobha, and she was the youngest of all. Iye has been raised in Chembur, Mumbai, India.
She is a graduation degree holder from R.A.Podar College & Economics, Mumbai, India. Iyer did many TV songs like in the year 2000, she did Kasamm and Kundali. Then in 2002, Kuchh Jhuki...
39. Karsh Kale
Karsh Kale is a British-born, New York raised and based American musician, record producer, songwriter, film composer, and DJ. This music producer is regarded as one of the most dynamic artists on the international stage. He successfully can handle the worlds of classical and modern music, and yet can create a fusion of both western and Indian music in an artistic manner.
Karsh Kale has also composed of Bollywood films including Chutney Popcorn, Indian Cowboy, Ocean of Pearls, and Pyaar Impossible!. His tracks have been featured in shows such as HBO's True Blood and Real Time with Bill Maher. In addition, Karsh has also penned lyrics for songs sung by American singer and pianist Norah Jones and English musician, singer Sting.
He also has composed the background score for films like Kartik Calling Kartik
40. Supavitra Babul
Supavitra Babul is a Bollywood film director who came to prominence with the making of a Hindi movie ‘Bittoo Boss' that released in 2012. It was a Hindi comedy film produced by Kumar Mangat and Abhishek Pathak.
The story of the movie was by Gautam Mehra and Supavitra Babul. With this movie, Supavitra Babul made his debut in Bollywood as a writer and director. He also set up a movie company 'Bittoo movie' and released the movie. The film starred Pulkit Samrat and Amita Pathak. The film narrated the story of a man who records videos at weddings.
When Babul started his journey to filmmaking, he did the job because of his passion. It was his passion to tell a story of different kinds through his lens. After his college days, Babul joined TV news, and he wanted to tell the viewers a thousand stories.<...
41. Divya Kumar
Born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Divya Kumar is an Indian Bollywood playback vocalist who sang in various Bollywood movies. He belongs to a musical family. Divya is the son of Bhagwan Shivram, who is a musician and grandson of Pandit Shivram, who was a composer for some regional movies and motion pictures by V Shantaram. Divya began singing at the age of eight, and as a kid, he showed up on several stage shows. He considered a different career. However, his mother asked him to choose vocalist as his profession. He appeared within the troupe of Kalyanji Anandji in many shows and has worked recently with Javed Ali, Shreya Ghoshal, and Sunidhi Chauhan, which are all from the music school of Kalyanji Anandji.
Divya’s first Bollywood debut film was Tutiya Dil by Amit Khanna with Ram Sampath, for which he recorded at the studio of ...
42. Shantanu Moitra
Shantanu Moitra is a music composer in Bollywood. He rose to popularity with films like ‘Parineeta’(2005) for which he received Filmfare R.D. Burman Award. After the success of ‘Parineeta’, his association with filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra was path-breaking one. He followed it up with Lage Raho Munnabhai’, ‘3 Idiots’ and ‘Eklavya: The Royal Guard' and 'PK'. He has also composed music for Shoojit Sircar’s two films ‘Shoebite’ and ‘Madras Café’. While ‘Shoebite’ remains an unreleased film still, ‘Madras Café’ got released.
After Parineeta Shantanu scored music for a Bengali film ‘Antaheen’. But the film released very late in 2009...
43. Papon
Angarag Mahanta, better known as Papon, was born on 24th November 1975 in Guwahati district of Assam. He is deeply engaged in various forms of music in which lies his entire career and dreams. Angarag formed his own music band known as the ‘Papon and The East India Company.' It was due to the huge popularity of the band that he came to be known as Papon (which happens to be his nickname) rather than his real name. His parents were Assamese folk singers Khagen Mahenta and Archana Mahanta.
Papon was taught various forms of music at a very young age itself, because of the background in music that his parents shared. Apart from singing, Papon is an expert in playing various musical instruments such as the Guitar, Harmonium, Tabla, and Kho...
44. Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney is the world-class musician, composer, producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. He is a British citizen with Indian roots. His parents are Punjabi emigrants. He is one of the pioneers of Asian Underground music scene, establishing a music genre that mixes western electronica and breakbeat style with South Asian musical influences. His skill set includes sitar, tabla, classical & jazz piano, and flamenco guitar, drum and bass. Sawhney became a modern-day Renaissance man in the world of music, video games, film, dance and theatre. Nitin attended Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School. He studied law at Liverpool University. At that time, he met James Taylor, his school friend and acid-jazz keyboard player. He toured with him along with The James Taylor Quartet. ...
45. Altamash Faridi
Altamash Faridi, an Indian playback singer, was born on August 17, 1989, in a one of the biggest cities of Uttar Pradesh, Saharanpur.He was the winner of the musical reality show, Close-Up Performer winner telecasted on Doordarshan in the year 2009. He competed with 99 other candidates to win that award and received a cash price of one lakh rupees along with a singing contract worth ten lakhs rupees with Rajshri Production. He contested in "Music Ka Maha Muqabla" telecasted on StarPlus as a member of Shaan’s team “Striker.” He was seen later in the same year, in Zee "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar." He was in brother’s duo, Sajid-Wajid team and managed to reach the top 18 contestants. He first ventured as a playback singer for the comic thriller "No Problem...
46. Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani mostly known by duo name Vishal Shekhar in the music world. Vishal is an Indian film music director. He not only composes music in Hindi, but equally famous for composing music in Telegu, Tamil, or in Marathi. Actually dedication brings success to a person and Vishal Dadlani has justified his talent by giving various types of music. Vishal was born on 28th June 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He first came to the limelight when he composed the movie songs in the films ‘Jhanker Beats’, ’Dus’, ’ Bluffmaster’, ’Om Shanti Om’, ‘Bachna Ae Haseena’, ’Dostana’, ‘Anjana Anjani’ and many such famous filmy songs, the present genres caller tunes or ring tones. Vishal Dadlani was the vocalist of Mumbai based electronic band Pentagram. He worked jointly ...
47. Vijay Prakash
Vijay Prakash is an Indian playback singer and film composer. He was born in Mysore and moved to Mumbai in 1996. He worked in so many Hindi films including Blue, Yuvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan, and Force.
He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam movies. He has also hosted the renowned reality TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kannada and has also performed in shows with the great Indian percussionist Ustad Zakir Hussain. Prakash is one of the four singers of the song ‘Jai Ho’, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The song also won a Grammy Award in the category ‘Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Medi...
48. Salim Merchant
49. Piyush Mishra
Piyush Mishra is an Indian film actor, singer, composer, lyricist, theatre director. His versatility in acting has proved him as one of the promising actors in Bollywood Cinema today he has. He was also considered to play the role of Prem in the superhit movie “Maine Pyaar kia” which put Salman khan in the hearts of his fans. He has acted in 25 Films, written dialogues in more than 5 films, and given lyrics for more than 10 films and this is just the beginning for him. This versatile actor was born in Gwalior on Jan 13, 1986. He grew up in Gwalior but his love for movie brought him to Delhi and he graduated from prestigious institute national school of drama, Delhi in 1986. Thereafter he established himself as Theatre artist and director in Delhi and made his debut ...
50. Ehsaan Noorani
Ehsaan Noorani is one of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio, composing of three talented Indian musicians namely Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan himself and Loy Mendonsa. He is a popular music composer and guitarist.
Ehsaan was born on October 12, 1963 in Hyderabad, India. He grew up in a place instilled with appreciation to different music genres at an early age. At 14, he started learning guitar under the teaching of Bismarck Rodriguez in Mumbai. During the mid 80’s, he attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), which is known as MI now. This became the turning point of his life as a musician as he slowly began to progress as a guitari...
51. Clinton Cerejo
Clinton Cerejo is an Indian singer and music producer. He has given his contribution in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil movies as a song composer. His work in the industry is a wide range, and it includes vocal arrangements, playback singing, background scores, production, music programming, and musical arrangements. He is known for his unique style of presentation. Famous singer and personalities such as Hugh Padgham, Roy Thomas Baker, Babyface, Trevor Horn, Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Arif Mardin, Roland Orzabal and much more have always insipid him. He was born in Mumbai and belonged to a family with people from the IT field who had no connection with the music. His father worked as an engineer in L&T Company, and his mother served as a French professor.
His brother lik...
52. Bonnie Chakraborty
Bonnie Chakraborty is a vocalist and music producer from Kolkata. His surname Chakraborty means the ‘Ruler of the Country'. Apart from being a vocalist and music producer, he has sung several playbacks in the Hindi film industry. The playbacks has been through the following movies; ‘Mangal Pandey - The Rising’ which was done in the year 2005, ‘ Jodhaa Akbar’, ‘Dev. D’, ‘Delhi 6’, ‘ Udaan’ and ‘ No One Killed Jessica’. Most of this work was done between the year 2008 and 2010. He has been a part of bands like Krosswindz, Kashti and Oikyotaan and Mohiner Ghoraguli. Bonnie Chakraborty has sung many songs.
The many songs are in different languages which include- Hindi, Tamil and Bengali. He has done four Bengali albums up to date. He ...
53. Raghubir Yadav
Raghubir Yadav is an Indian movie, television and stage actor born on 25 June, 1957 in Jabalpur. He is also a singer, music composer and set designer. His debut film in the industry was Massey Sahib (1985) in which he played the title role of movie. He has been awarded with two International Awards being Best Actor in FIPRESCI Critic's Award in 1986 and the Best Actor Silver Peacock, IIFI in 1987. It is quite unusual that an artist with that much talent in so many areas has not received a National Award. Raghubir Yadav is from the 1977 batch at National School of Drama, New Delhi and has specialization in stagecraft. About his journey, he has worked as a singer and actor in more than 70 plays and had done almost 2500 live shows with Parsi Theatre Company starting at an age of 15 from 1967 to 1973 where they used to go from one vi...
54. Master Saleem
Master Saleem is the well-known singer behind Bollywood hit songs like ‘Mast Kalanadar’ and ‘Rola Pe Gaya’ etc. Born as Saleem Shahzada, he is also known as Saleem Shahkoti and was born on July 13th, 1982. He was born to renowned Sufi artist Ustad Puran Shahkoti and Bibi Mathro in Shahkot, in the city of Jalandhar in Punjab. His father was a well-known Sufi singer and was a mentor to many Punjabi folk sensations such as Jasbir Jassi, Hans Raj Hans, Sabar Koti, etc. When Saleem was six years old, he decided to follow his father’s footsteps and began to learn from him. Saleem made his debut into his singing career when he was just eight years old. He was given an opportunity to perform live for the then newly opening Doordarshan Channel in Bathinda, Punjab.
...55. Benny Dayal
Benny Dayal is an Indian Pop-Singer. Born in Kollam, Kerala, India on May 13, 1984. He was a member of the S5 Pop Band in India. He started as a playback singer and known to have work with various reputable composers.
He finished his studies from Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS) and took Journalism in Madras Christian College. His Indian-Pop-Electro-Rap-Reggae infused songs made him so famous and with unique quality compared to any singers. This made him one of the most loved singers by doing such mix-ups of traditional Indian music to a new-era’s songs. You’ll be so moved in listening to any of his songs.
He worked before as an Event Coordinator for RR Donnelley Printing. He also worked as an HR Executive for a BPO when he received a call and inviting him to audition for ARR Studio. He...
56. Swanand Kirkire
57. Hitesh Sonik
Hitesh Sonik is a music director and a singer in the Hindi film Industry. Making a mark in the Hindi music was not tough for him as he was the nephew of well-known music composer Sonik of the Sonik-Omi pair, who composed melodious music in 1970s. Sonik Omi is still remembered in the industry for the Rekha starred film, Sawan Bhado. Music composer Sonik Omi is also known for qawali track which was sung by Asha Bhonsle and Mohammed Rafi and became popular.
Hitesh Sonik got the job of being an assistant to the music director Vishal Bhardwaj. He assisted Vishal in movies like Maachis and Hu Tu Tu and Kaminey and many more. He worked...
58. Amit Trivedi
59. Shadab Faridi
Shadab Faridi is an Indian playback singer. He has sung songs for Hindi Bollywood cinema. He came into limelight when he participated in the reality singing Tv show Junoon - Kuchh Kar Dikhaane Ka, which was aired on NDTV Imagine in 2008 from June to September. Junoon - Kuchh Kar Dikhaane Ka was created by Gajendra Singh and hosted by popular Annu Kapur. Although, he didn't win the show but became famous for his melodious singing. He became an instant favorite in audiences.
After his venture in the reality show, he bagged the song Tu Hi Haqeeqat, from the movie Tum Mile. Next he sang for the movie, Rann in the year 2010. In the recent movie, Bajirao Mastaani he provided the soundtrack. In his movie, Raann he was both a playback singer and also provided the soundtrack.
Later he was seen singing for famous movie Dabang...
60. Loy Mendonsa
Loy Mendonsa is an Indian pianist, musician, and singer. He is more renowned as the member of the trio group Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, which he co-founded with singer Shankar Mahadevan and guitarist-singer Ehsaan Noorani. His career initially began for Doordarshan productions, where he composed the theme song of “The World This Week” show. Before the formation of his trio group, Loy has worked with the Indian music great A.R.Rahman and Nadeem-Shravan.
After the release of the album “Rockford” by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, the trio made their debut in music composition in the Tamil movie “Aalavandhan”. However, it was not well received by the masses. But they marked their comeback in the blockbuster Dil Chahta Hai in 2001, where the...
61. Jasbir Jassi
Jasbir Jassi is a renowned Punjabi actor and singer. He was born on February 7, 1970 at Dalla Mirjanpur Village in Punjab, India. Jasbir was raised up in a typical town in Punjab, India. He studied at Apeejay College of Fine Arts in Jalandhar and earned a masters degree in classical music. He used to play the harmonium when he was a child and was trained by V.S. Jolly and Sufiana’s Puran Shah Koti. He was born as a philanthropist and believes that music is a religion of being together. He is a first generation musician who joined several musical plays such as Sadha Bugdu Bulo. He got noticed for his performances for the North Zone Cultural Centre.
In 1993, the brilliant singer sang the Channa Ve Teri Channani. In the late 1980’s, Jasbir started recording in many Punjabi films and he also sang for albums like ...
62. Vignesh Lakshminarayanan
63. Ganeshram Nagarajan