She also sang a song titled “Maine Li Jo Angdai” for the album Women’s Day Special: Spreading Melodies Everywhere. In 2014, she again teamed up with Sonu Nigam to sing the song “Phool Khil Jayenge” for child health awareness.
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Also, her song “Choli Ke Peeche” from the movie Khalnayak was voted as the hottest song of the century in a poll conducted by Sanona.ĪLKA YAGNIK has also been involved in various projects to empower girls. In 2012, on the occasion of 100 years of Hindi Cinema, her song “Taal Se Taal Mila” from the movie Taal was voted as the best song of the century in a poll conducted by DesiMartini, Hindustan Times, and Fever 104. Her song “Chamma Chamma” from China Gate was featured in the song “Hindi Sad Diamonds” from the soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge! She has also performed the Hanuman Chalisa and various devotional songs. Throughout the 90s, ALKA YAGNIK along with Kavita Krishnamurthy and Poornima were singing most of the songs for heroines.ĪLKA YAGNIK worked on private albums like “Tum Yaad Aaye” in 1997 in close collaboration with award-winning lyricist Javed Akhtar and composer Raju Singh, “Tum Aaye” in 2002 with Javed Akhtar and singer Hariharan and “Shairana” in 2003 with Javed Akhtar and singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan. She has performed several shows with Kalyanji-Anandji and Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Besides the duet version, she also sang the female version of the song with Ila Arun. In 1994, she sang another seductive song, “Din Mein Leti Hai,” from the film Amanaat with co-singer Kumar Sanu and Ila Arun, composed by Bappi Lahiri and lyrics by Anwar Sagar. She got a second Filmfare award for the song, which she shared with Ila Arun. The song created controversy because of the lyrics written by Anand Bakshi. In 1993, ALKA YAGNIK sang a seductive song “Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai” with Ila Arun. In an interview with Mid-Day, ALKA YAGNIK said that she recorded five songs daily during her time. She has also performed in live concerts around the world. Besides Hindi, she has sung in more than twenty-five languages, besides singing 15 Pakistani songs, including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Marathi, Manipuri, Odia, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Tamil, and Telugu. She has said that she had a high fever on the day she recorded “Ek Do Teen.” The song won her the first out of seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer. She got her big break with the song “Ek Do Teen” from Tezaab (1988). This was followed by Laawaris (1981) with the song “Mere Angane Mein”, followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980). Impressed, Laxmikant gave her two alternatives – an immediate start as a dubbing artist or a later break as a singer Shubha chose the latter for her daughter.Ī classically trained ALKA YAGNIK began singing bhajans for Akashvani (All India Radio), Kolkata at the age of six. Kapoor heard the girl and sent her with a letter to noted music director Laxmikant. On a subsequent visit, ALKA YAGNIK got a letter of introduction to Raj Kapoor from his Kolkata distributor. She was advised to wait until her voice matured, but her mother remained determined.
At age 10, her mother brought her to Mumbai as a child singer. In 1972 at age six, she started singing for Akashvani (All India Radio), Kolkata. Her mother Shubha was a singer of Indian classical music.
She has been on the chart for 236 weeks with 400 million views, and she has sung in more than 25 languages.ĪLKA YAGNIK was born in Kolkata to a Gujarati family. 1 in YouTube’s Music Charts & Insights list of top global artists as of 25 March 2021. She is one of the most prolific female playback singers and has sung a large number of female solos in her Bollywood career. Further, as many as twenty of her tracks feature in BBC’s “Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time” review. She is a record seven-time winner from a record of 36 nominations of the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, a two-time recipient of the National Film Award, and several other music awards and honors listed below.
She is noted in Indian cinema for a career spanning over four decades and for singing in 25+ languages. ALKA YAGNIK is an Indian Bollywood Playback Singer.
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