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A versatile singer, Tanvi Shah is a playback singer who has sung songs in languages like Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Portuguese, Arabic, and Latin. She made her debut in playback singing with the song 'Fanaa' for the movie Yuva, which released in 2004. Ever since then, she has had a collaboration with the Oscar-winning singer A.R Rahman, and she has sung several songs for him. Amit Trivedi, Yuvan Shankar Raja and other leading music directors invited Tanvi after her success with A.R Rahman reached the public eye. She wrote the Spanish lyrics for the ever popular song of Slumdog Millionaire - Jai Ho. At the 52nd Grammy Awards, she won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written For Visual Media, which she shared with Rahman and Gulzar.

She was also featured in the Snoop Dog Mi...

Sona Mohapatra was born on 17th of June in 1976 at her hometown Cuttack, Odisha. She is one of the most renowned singer and composer in Indian film industry. She is a graduate and has done B.Tech from Bhubaneshwar. She has also done post-graduate and has MBA degree from Symbiosis Centre of Management & HRD, Pune. She worked as brand manager as well at Marico. After that, she started her career with jingle songs for TATA salt and Close-Up toothpaste. These jingles made her famous as they became very popular in more than 13 countries. In 2007, she decided to release her album and came up with Sona, under the banner of Sony records. This album had songs of different genres. From rock to rhythm of blues and Hindustani. She is married to composer Ram Sampath, and they both love to work together. They got mar...

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, ...

Aditi Singh Sharma is an Indian singer, who was born on June 2, 1986 in Delhi and she lived abroad for so many years. She returned to Mumbai while doing her high school to pursue her singing career and made her debut in the romantic black comedy drama, Dev D in the year 2009. She performed her first solo playback song, Yahi Meri Zindagi in the film. 

She has been part of various bands including Crimson and Level 9 and as of the present, Aditi is a member of the rock star band Groove Adda, who has been touring around the country to perform. She started playback singing after she met Shankar of the popular musical trio, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, during the Jack Daniels Rock Awards. She is the host of the event and Ehsa...

Kavita Seth is a Hindi playback singer born in Uttar Pradesh. She was born on September 14, 1970. The singer even lends her voice in Ghazals and Sufi music. She was a disciple of Ustad Ahmed Ali Khan. She started her career by performing on All India Radio and Doordarshan. Kavitha Seth drew inspiration from works of Sufi poets and singer. Also, she has rendered many compositions and her voice often blends in the Sufi culture of the Indian subcontinent. In popular film songs, she won acclaim for the song of Iktara, which is from the movie Wake Up Sid and Tum Hi Bandhu from the film Cocktail.

Kavita has recorded several albums of her own for Times Music, Sa Re Ga Ma companies too. She has even won best playback singer in Filmfare for her song ‘Gunja Sa Ik Tara’...

Kalpana Patowary has earned an intense reputation by singing Bhojpuri songs and for being instrumental in uplifting this typical folk song of India into a global platform and she has introduced these songs of rural India to the music lovers of the whole world. Hence, she is rightfully called as “Bhojpuri Queen” by her numerous fans and followers all over the world.

Kalpana is actually an Assamese by birth. Being the daughter of famous Assamese folk singer Bipin Chandra Nath, she was naturally talanted. She was born and brought up in Assam and graduated in English Literature from Cotton College in Assam. Due to her hearty love for music, she became the disciple of the renowned classical singer Ustad Gulam Mustafa Khan. But her love of folk songs was mostly inspired by the example of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, who wa...

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...

Taran Kaur Dhilon, better known by her stage name Hard Kaur, is a British Indian rapper and actress.

Born 29 July 1979 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Kaur hails from a humble parentage. Her mother operated a small beauty parlour which was later destroyed after her father's death. Kaur's mother later remarried a British citizen and eventually moved to Birmingham, England. While in UK, Kaur developed her interest in hip-hop and started pursuing her musical career.

Her first musical release was Ek Glassy which fared well on UK charts. Hard Kaur debuted on Bollywood playback with the song 'Move Your Body' from the movie Johnny Gaddar. After her debut, she has lent voice to songs from movies Ugly Aur Pagli, Singh is King, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani, Prince and Kismat Konnection.<...

Lakshmi or Lakshmi Narayan is an Indian film actress who was born as Lakshmi Yaragudipati to Yaragudipati Varada Rao from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil actress, Rukmini who is also the daughter of actress, Nungambakkam Janaki. Lakshmi’s father is a notable actor and Telugu filmmaker who usually does films that deals with significant social issues.  Lakshmi was born on December 13, 1952 in Madras Presidency in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.  

Lakshmi was only fifteen when she entered the film industry. She was first introduced in the Tamil film, Jeevanamsam in 1968 and later appeared in the Telugu film, Bandhavyalu. Then she went on acting in many Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada movies. She became popula...

Karthik is an Indian playback singer. He was born November 7, 1980, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Karthik has sung in many languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi. He is known to be a very versatile singer. In the Tamil language, he has sung for over 1000 songs, his highest for any language followed by Telugu in which he has sung over 500 songs. Karthik had the love for music since his childhood days. He is trained in Carnatic Music and had got trained for it since long.

He was a regular participant of IIT Madras fest Saarang. Karthik always wanted to work with A.R. Rahman and his dream came true when one of his friends Srinivas, who was constantly working with Rahman recommended Karthik to Rahman.

Rahman was in need of new vocalists at that time for a song in the film Pukar. ...

Ram Sampath is an Indian music producer and composer. After a brief stint as a composer for an advertising agency in Mumbai, Ram Sampath went on to compose music albums before venturing into the Bollywood industry. Ram was born in and brought up in Mumbai. Although cultures divided his parents, they were brought together by their inclination for music which has been reflected in their celebrity son.

After completing his schooling in Mumbai, Ram went on to study commerce in the famed Podar College in Mumbai. He was also a part of the rock band in his college which shows that his passion for music had manifested at a very young age. Ram started his career as a composer for advertisements. He has composed jingles for Airtel, Docomo, Thums Up, Pepsi and the Times of India.

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...

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...

An Indian singer, Tochi Raina is a notable playback singer of Bollywood. He is popularly known for songs like Kabira, Saibo, Aali Re and Maldar Ki Jeb, among many others. Born on 2nd September 1971, to Sahib and Surjit Singh, he finished schooling in Nepal, where his father was posted as a government employee. He belongs to a family with a history of music background; right from his grandmother to his sister, everyone has been into music.

After moving to Delhi, he trained in music under Pandit Vinod Kumar. His guru was a disciple of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, an Indian classical singer. He learned music from several Gurus and believes that they taught him more than just music. His journey towards attaining musical knowledge led him on the spiritual path, and he turned towards Sufi singing. Tochi Raina has also sung in several ...

     Then he attended college at ‘Kirori Mal College’ which was affiliated with the University of Delhi, although he dropped out after a period of six months only since he couldn’t bear the ragging which he had to endure within the university. He was born with the ability to play the guitar as well as the piano since it has been stated that no formal training was given to him with regard to learn...

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 ...

Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from his childhood. He left his home at the age of 14, for learning music and took proper lessons from his guru.

After many attempts, he didn’t get the right teacher. He began to learn music, by listening to the classical music of Indian singers like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kumar Gaurav, Pandit Gokulotsa...

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...

Sukhwinder Singh, an asset to the Bollywood Music Industry, was born on 18th July 1971. He is a playback singer, who is quite active from the year 1992 until the present. There are a huge number of his fan followers, and he is gifted with an incredible voice. Apart from any element in any aspect of film making, songs sung by him made a phenomenal difference in its success. He has sung some outstanding numbers in the Bollywood film industry in the late nineties.

He is the singer of a couple of miraculous songs namely "Chaiya Chaiya" from Dil Se movie, and "Jai Ho" from the Oscar award winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. For these couple of songs, he won national award for its unbelievable hit and success. He was completely into singing at the age of eig...

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...

Hans Raj Hans is an Indian singer and he is also a politician. Hans Raj Hans is known for his Punjabi songs and he is famous for the classical distinction in singing. He sang many classical songs for a long time, but now a day he is singing number of religious songs.

Hans Raj Hans was born on 9th April 1964 in a community known as Shafipur that is adjacent to Jalandhar. He belongs to a Sikh peasant tribe. He is the singer of Punjabi folks as well as Sufi composition. He also sang in many Indian films besides he released his personal album called Indipop album. He has worked with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in a picture Kachche Dhaage.

He started to sing during his teenage. He instigated his profession by singing at a youth festival and he was the winner of that festival. Hans got the singin...

Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan is a precious gem that Hindi filmdom can still boast off. He has nurtured many singers such as Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Geeta Dutt in the olden time. Even present generation singers like Hariharan, Shaan, and Sonu Nigam owe a great acknowledgment being his students. The music industry considers him to be junior Tansen always.

He has kept the alive the tradition of the Rampur Sahaswan Gharana (a kind of Indian classical singing). Recently, at the age of 82, he performed in the coke studio season organized by MTV India. His father is Waris Hussain Khan and his grandfather is Inayat Hussain Khan of Sahaswan Gharana. His mother was the daughter of the great Inayat Hussain Khan, and the music was the legacy of his family. His great-great grandfa...

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...