Hindi Tv Show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 1997 - Cast & Crew

Mohammed Vakil, a younger generation playback singer, was noticed in the musical reality TV game show named ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’. In the year 1997, Mohammed Vakil was a participant but in 1998, he was declared the winner in this musical show. Noted playback singer Sonu Nigam was the host for the show when Vakil won the singing contest. This placed him in the world of playback singing, and he made his debut in films too.

Sonu Nigam is a renowned Bollywood singer and composer. He was born on July 30, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Hailing from a musical background, both his parents are singers. He is the son of singer Agam Kumar Nigam. The first performance he gave was at the tender age of 3 when he performed the song Kya Hua Tera Wada by Mohammed Rafi. Besides singing Hindi songs he has recorded songs in Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Marathi languages. He is amongst the top Playback singers in Bollywood and has also released a few individual pop albums. Nigam moved to Mumbai at the age of 19, to start a career in Bollywood as a singer. He is the prodigy of famous Hindustani classical singer Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. Though he started his career by covering songs of Mohammed Rafi under the T-Series record label owned by Gulshan Kumar, his first break came in 1990 when he did playback singing in the movie called Janam. In 1995 he started hosting the popular musical TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, after which he delivered the famous single Acha Sila Diya Tune for the film Bewafa Sanam. Some of his famous tracks are Sandese Aate Hai from the movie Border (1997), Ye Dil Deewana from the movie Pardes (1997). In 1999 he released his debut album Deewana, he also sang the title track for the movie Kal Ho Na Ho. As an individual composer he has worked on movies like Singh Saab The Great, Sooper Se Ooper and Jal. Nigam has contributed in Britney Spears track I Wanna Go, and has also released a track in the album The Beat of Our Hearts as a tribute to Michael Jacskon. In his small acting career he has acted in films like Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahaani, Love In Nepal and Kaash Aap Humaare Hote. Nigam is married to Madhurima and also had a son named Neevan.

Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, on July 1, 1938. He is an Indian music director and classical flutist who plays the traditional Hindustani classical. His mother passed away when he was six years old. He learned music without the knowledge of his father since he wanted him to be a wrestler. At the age of 15, Chaurasia began learning vocal music from his neighbor, Rajaram. Later, he started playing the flute for eight years under the instruction of Bholanath Prasanna of Varanasi. He started working as a performer and composer for All India Radio in 1957 in Cuttack, Odisha. Later, while working for All India Radio, he sought advice from the reclusive Annapurna Devi, daughter of Baba Allaudin Khan, who promised to educate him only if he was willing to forget all he had previously learned.