Shweta Mohan Female Playback Singer of India

Shweta Mohan is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages. She is the daughter of renowned singer Sujatha Mohan.

Sweta Mohan
Background information
Birth name	Shweta
Born	1986, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Genres	playback singing
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocalist

Education

She is a graduate from Stella Maris College.

Awards

* 2007 - Kerala State Award

* 2008 - Filmfare Award Malayalam

* 2008 - Asianet Film Award for Best Female Playback -Novel

* Vanitha award

* Film Critics Award

* 2007 - Sunfeast Isai Aruvi Award

* 2009 - Film Fare Award Malayalam

Major songs in Malaylam

* Amma Mazhakarinu - Madambi

* Kolakuzhal Viliketto - Nivedhyam

* Kuyile Poonkuyile - Novel

* Mampulli Kavil - Katha Parayumbol

* Kilichundan Mavil - Romeo

* Enthanennu - Goal

* Mandarapoo Mooli - Vinodayathra

* Yamuna Veruthe - Ore Kadal

* Thottal pookum - Mos and Cat

* Oru yathramozhi - Kurukshetra

* Priyanumathram- Robinhood

* Raakuyilin - Sulthan

* Cheruthingal Thoni - Soole

* Oru Naal - Thalappavu

* Sundari Onnu- Lion

* Mavin chottile-Oru naal varum

Major songs in Tamil

* Pain Of Love - Thambi Kottai

* Boom Boom Robo Da - Enthiran

* Oh Maha Zeeya - Thamizh Padam

* Vizhiyil Un Vizhiyil - Kireedam

* Nee Mutham Ondru - Pokkiri

* Kanden Kanden - Pirivom Sandhippom

* Naan Tharai Nila - Ramesvaram

* Neethana Neethana - Sadhu Miranda

* O Nenje - Sivi

* Ini Achcham Achcham Illai - Indira

* Eppadithaan Eppadithaan Solven Athai - Uthama Puthiran

 Major songs in Telugu

* Chinukai Varadai- Village lo Vinayakudu

* Amma Thale - Komaram Puli

* Boom Boom Robo Ra - Robo

* Piliche Pedavula Paina - Khaleja

Songs in Hindi

* Baazi Laga - Guru

* Khili Re - Raavan

Shubha Mudgal Female Playback Singer of India

Shubha Mudgal (born 1959) is a well-known Indian singer of Hindustani classical music, Khayal, Thumri, Dadra, and popular Indian Pop music.

She has been awarded the 1996 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction for 'Amrit Beej', the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music, at the 34th Chicago International Film Festival, for her music in the film Dance of the Wind (1997), and the Padma Shri in 2000. She is also close to progressive movements like ANHAD and SAHMAT.

Shubha Mudgal
Mudgal playing the tanpura in 2006.
Background information
Birth name	Shubha Gupta
Also known as	Shubha Mudgal
Born	1959 (age 50–51), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Genres	Pop, folk, Indian classical, playback singing
Occupations	Singer
Years active	1986 – present

Early life

Born in an academic family to Skand and Jaya Gupta in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Both her parents were professors of English literature at Allahabad University, with deep interest in classical Hindustani music and Kathak . Her paternal grandfather, Prof. P. C. Gupta was also a professor at Allahabad University.

She attended St. Mary's Convent Inter College. As a young girl she started learning Kathak in Allahabad following the foot steps of her sister. She replied once to a dance examiner's routine query of "Aap kis gharaane ka naachti hain (what gharana (house/style) do you dance from?)" with the retort "Hum apne gharaane ka naachti hain (I dance from my own gharana)" . She later switched to Hindustani classical music as her vocation of choice while maintaining the same individualistic attitude. Her first traditional teacher (guru) was Pandit Ramashreya Jha in Allahabad.

Mudgal moved to New Delhi and enrolled at the Delhi University. She continued her musical education under Pandit Vinaya Chandra Mudgalya at the urging of her first guru. After graduating from the university, her training continued under Pandit Vasant Thakar in Delhi, and more informally with other established singer as Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki, Naina Devi and Pt. Kumar Gandharva.

Performing career

Shubha Mudgal started performing as a classical singer in the 80s and gained a certain reputation as a talented singer. In the 90's, she started experimenting with other forms of music, including pop and fusion varieties. She says, "I believe in music. Khayal and thumari are my favourites, but that doesn’t mean I should not experiment with other forms, Why should I curtail my musical urges?" asks the singer and adds, "I want to allow the artist in me to come through. If you are a musician, how can you say, 'this one is from devotional poetry, so I'm not going to sing it.' In addition to her recordings and concerts, she also briefly ran a website called raagsangeet.com aimed at lovers of traditional Indian music.

International Performances

On october 24, 2008, The kickstart of Deepawali festival by the melodious Shubha Mudgal. She sang great songs from her latest album "Pyar Ke Geet". Packed auditorium of Sunnyvale Hindu Temple and Community Center, community, visitors, devotees enjoyed the performance. Everyone danced to touching songs. Event started with Huna Huna, a song from the depth of heart.

Personal life

After graduating from the University, she married Pt. Mudgalaya's son, Mukul Mudgal who was a promising lawyer then. Shubha Mudgal got divorced from her first husband, and got married to Aneesh Pradhan. Her only son from her previous marriage, Dhawal, is a member of a Delhi-based band.[9]

Discography

* Ali More Angana (1996)

* Classically Yours (1999) ISBN: D4HV2718

* Ab ke Sawan

* Pyaar Ke Geet

* Mann Ki Manjeree

* Kisson Ki Chadar (2003)

* Shubh Deepavali (2005)

* Anand Mangal

* The Awakening (2006)

* Jahan-E-Khusrau (2007)

Shruti Pathak Female Playback Singer of India

Mar Jawan- The song that brought her out of her shell; the song that gave her voice a name; the song that made her Shruti Pathak! The hit number from the movie ‘Fashion’ is definitely Shruti’s entry into the big league.

Besides Bollywood, she has already had a successful remix career earlier. Today she is known for her bold choices such as the movie Dev D. The talented singer has even penned down the lyrics for one of the songs on the Dev D. album.

With Pop hits through the years and now with Bollywood knocking on her doors, Shruti has arrived and has a very long way to go!

Discography

2010

* Anjaana Anjaani - "Aas Pass Khuda" and "Tujhe Bhula Diya" [1]

2009

* Luck-"Jee Le"

* Kurbaan - "Rasiya"

* Dev.D - "Paayaliya"

2008

* Fashion - "Mar Jawaan" - Nominated, Filmfare Best Female Playback Award[2]

* Money Hai Toh Honey Hai

Shreya Ghoshal Female Playback Singer of India

Shreya Ghoshal (Bengali: শ্রেয়া ঘোষাল; born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in Bollywood films, she has also performed several songs for other Indian film industries. Besides Hindi, she performs in Assamese, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi,and Tamil songs.

Ghoshal's career began when she won the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa contest as an adult. Her Bollywood playback singing career began with Devdas, for which she received both the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent. Since then, she has worked in more than 180 films. She has worked with many prominent Indian musicians, and several of her songs have achieved critical and commercial success. Ghoshal is one of the most awarded playback singers in recent times, with four National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards to her credit.

Shreya Ghoshal
Birth name	Shreya Ghoshal
Born	March 12, 1984 (1984-03-12) (age 26)
Origin	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Genres	Playback singing, Indian classical music
Occupations	Singer
Years active	2002 – present
Website	shreyaghoshal.com

Biography
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Early years

Ghoshal was born to a Bengali Hindu family in Kolkata, West Bengal. Her ancestors came from the Bikrampur region of Dhaka district, Bangladesh. She grew up in Rawatbhata, a small town near Kota, Rajasthan. She belongs to a highly academic family. Her father "B Ghoshal" works in Bhabha Atomic Research Center as a nuclear power plant engineer for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India; her mother is a post-graduate literature student.

From the age of four Ghoshal accompanied her mother on the harmonium. She trained in Hindustani classical music in Kota with Maheshchandra Sharma.

As a child, she won the children's special episode of the Sa Re Ga Ma (now Sa Re Ga Ma Pa) contest on Zee TV. Kalyanji, who also judged the competition, convinced her parents to move to Mumbai.[2] She trained with Kalyanji for 18 months and continued her classical music training with Mukta Bhide in Mumbai.

She studied at Atomic Energy Central Schools (AECS) at Rawatbhata and Anushaktinagar (Mumbai). After graduation she enrolled at SIES College.

Career

Ghoshal caught the attention of film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she participated in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for a second time, this time as an adult. In 2000, he offered her the opportunity to be the voice of Paro, the lead female character of his film Devdas, who was portrayed by Aishwarya Rai. Shreya sang five songs under the musical direction of Ismail Darbar in the film. Her performance won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, as well as Filmfare's RD Burman Award for New Music Talent, given to upcoming talents in music. She also won a National Film Award for the song "Bairi Piya".

Since Devdas, she has received awards singing under prominent musicians including A. R. Rahman, M. M. Keeravani, Shantanu Moitra and Pritam. She has won many awards both in the north and south film industries. Moviegoers from across the world heard Ghoshal’s singing voice pictured on Aishwarya Rai, and in coming years she quickly became one of the top female playback singers in Bollywood, alongside Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, and Kavita Krishnamurthy.

She enjoys symphony and instrumental western music; her favourite groups are Dream Theater, Backstreet Boys and Boyzone. But Indian music is her passion. She won three more Filmfare Awards. She is the only singer to get four national awards at the age of 26 in the Hindi film industry.

Awards and recognitions

Special Recognition

* Governor of US State of Ohio, Ted Strickland declared by a proclamation that June 26th, 2010 is "Shreya Ghoshal Day" in the state of Ohio in recognition of Shreya's musical contribution. Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore were the only Indians to receive this title.

National Film Awards

* 2003: National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Bairi Piya (Devdas; Hindi)

* 2006: National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Dheere Jalna (Paheli; Hindi)

* 2008: National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Yeh Ishq Hai (Jab We Met; Hindi)

* 2009: National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Jeeva Dangala (Jogwa; Marathi) & Pherari Mon (Antaheen; Bengali)

Filmfare Awards

* 2003: Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent

* 2003: Filmfare Best Female Playback Award (shared with Kavita Krishnamurthy) - Dola Re (Devdas)

* 2004: Filmfare Best Female Playback Award - Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai (Jism)

* 2008: Filmfare Best Female Playback Award - Barso Re (Guru)

* 2009: Filmfare Best Female Playback Award - Teri Ore (Singh Is Kinng)

Filmfare Awards South

* 2007: Filmfare Best Female Playback Award (Tamil) - Munbe Vaa (Sillunu Oru Kaadhal)

* 2008: Filmfare Best Female Playback Award (Kannada) - Ninna Nodalenthu - (Mussanjemaatu)

IIFA Awards

* 2003: IIFA Best Female Playback Award (shared with Kavita Krishnamurthy) - Dola Re (Devdas)

* 2004: IIFA Best Female Playback Award - Jadu Hai Nasha Hai (Jism)

* 2008: IIFA Best Female Playback Award - Barso Re (Guru)

* 2009: IIFA Best Female Playback Award - Teri Ore (Singh Is Kinng)

Zee Cine Awards

* 2003: Zee Cine Award Best Female Playback Singer (shared with Kavita Krishnamurthy) - Dola Re (Devdas)

* 2006: Zee Cine Award for Best FemalePlayback Singer - Piyu Bole (Parineeta)

* 2008: Zee Cine Award Best Female Playback Singer - Barso Re (Guru)

Star Screen Awards

* 2004: Star Screen Award Best Female Playback - Jadoo Hai Nasha Hai (Jism)

* 2006: Star Screen Award Best Female Playback - Piyu Bole (Parineeta)

* 2008: Star Screen Award Best Female Playback - Barso Re (Guru)

Other Awards

* 2003: Stardust Award - New Musical Sensation (Female) - Devdas

* 2005: Andhra Pradesh State Award Best Female Playback Singer - Pillagaali Allari (Athadu) & Neeke Nuvvu (Modati Cinema) (Telugu)

* 2007: Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Female Playback - Munbe Vaa (Sillunu Oru Kaadhal) (Tamil)

* 2008: Apsara Award Best Female Playback Singer - Barso Re (Guru)

* 2009: Apsara Award Best Female Playback Singer - Teri Ore (Singhh is Kingg)

* 2008: GPBA - German Public Bollywood Award Best Singer (Female) - Yeh Ishq Haaye (Jab We Met)

* 2008: Zee Astitva Award for Excellence In Music

* 2009: Kerala State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Chandhu Thottille (Banaras)

* 2010: Apsara Award Best Female Playback Singer - Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)

Sharda Sinha Female Playback Singer of India

Sharda Sinha (born October 9, 1952) is a famous folk-singer from Bihar. She is music teacher. she has vowed respect and given a new dimension to Maithili and Bhojpuri songs. She has got Padma Shri for her contribution to music. Prayag Sangeet Samiti organised Basant Mahotsava at Prayag where Padma Shri Sharda Sinha presented numerous songs based on the theme of spring season, drawing huge applause from the audience. The advent of spring was beautifully narrated through folk songs.

She regularly performs during Durga Puja festivities.She had enthralled the audience when the Prime Minister of Mauritius Navin Ramgoolam had come to the land of his ancestors, Bihar.

She has sung in many movies such as Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and has also produced several successful music albums such as Dulhin, Pirittiya, Mehndi etc.

She is blessed with one son and one daughter. Son Ashu is a Web Designer and daughter Vandana is happily married to Mr. Sanju Kumar, Regional Head (Legal), ICICI Bank and lives in New Delhi with her two years old daughter Anushka.

Bihar 'kokila' Sharda Sinha's performance at Pragati Maidan in the ongoing Bihar Utsav, 2010, in New Delhi was an instant hit on Saturday, March 27, 2010 evening. Sinha started the programme with her famous patriotic song 'Maiya bharti pukarela jawan babua tora hathawa mein deshwa ke shaan babuwa'. Her other songs, including 'Paniya ke jahaj se paltaniya bani ahiya piya lele ahiya ho sindurwa Bengal Ke,' 'Kahe to se sajani hamaar jogiya,' 'Sutal chaliya baba ke bhawanwa,' 'Sun ho pardesia,' 'Sasuji se lutri,' 'Apna sajaniya ke' and 'Dulhin dhire dhire chalio,' enthralled the audience.

Shilpa Rao Female Playback Singer of India

Shilpa Rao

Place of Birth: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Also known as :Birth name - Apeksha Rao
Genre: Bollywood
Language: Hindi

Biography

This up-and-coming singer who has lent her voice to songs such as ‘Mudhi-Mudhi Ittefaq Se’ (Paa), and ‘Khuda Jaane’ (Bachna Ae Haseeno) is definitely on the roll.

Showered with glowing reviews for her work on various soundtracks, Shilpa Rao’s talent spans a vast range of genres. Right from the ghazal track 'Sehra' in the Tusshar Kappor-starrer Aggar, to the upbeat, qawwali flavoured 'Saiyyan Re' from Salaam-E-Ishq, where she joins Shankar Mahadevan or the track, 'Javeda Zindagi' from the movie Anwar, where Shilpa duets with Kshitij together with guitar and tabla fusion to create a song that’s highly emotive and profound in meaning.

It was her father, S.V. Rao, who initiated Shilpa into the world of music. A post-graduate in music, he gave Shilpa the grounding needed to be a fine singer. But it was Hariharan, however, who discovered the innate potential in her and encouraged her to fine tune her skills. And fine tune her skills she did under Ghulam Mustafa Khan.

Having moved to Mumbai, Shilpa started off her career doing jingles for advertisements. Her dream debut into the music industry began with Shanker-Ehsaan-Loy’s peppy ‘Saiyan Re’ (Salaam-E-Ishq). The singer then went on to do songs for Mithoon Sharma (‘Tose Naina Lage,’ ‘Woh Ajnabi’ and ‘Nach Le’), Piyush Kanojia (‘Raghupati Raghav’ and ‘Vaishav Jan’) and Raghav Sachar (‘Gupchup’).

Debut Year 2005

Discography

2010 - Horn Ok Pleassss

2009 - Paa

2009 - Aagey Se Right

2009 - Sikandar

2009 - Gulaal

2009 - Dev D

2008 - Hijack

2008 - Bachna Ae Haseeno

2008 - Good Luck

2008 - Contract

2008 - Aamir

2008 - One Two Three

2007 - Aggar

2007 - The Train

2007 - Panga Naa Lo

2007 - Salaam-E-Ishq

2005 - Ek Ajnabee

Awards

Star Screen Awards

2008 - Best Female Playback Singer - 'Khuda Jaane - Bachna Ae Haseeno

Trivia/ Quotes

Trivia

An article published in the Hindustan Times in 2009 described her as one of the most prominent singers in the "wave" of "young, little-known singers" then sweeping through Bollywood.

'Ek Lau' from the film Aamir is one of her famous songs. This song relates a lot to the Mumbai Terror attacks on 26/11 and was the theme song on NDTV during the coverage of the Mumbai Carnage.

Shamshad Begum Female Playback Singer of India

Shamshad Begum (born April 14, 1919) is an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.

Begum was born in Amritsar, Punjab. She was a big fan of K.L. Saigal and watched Devdas 14 times. She earned 15 rupees per song and was awarded 5,000 on the completion of the contract on Xenophone, a renowned music recording company.

Sometime back, a controversy erupted in the media, when several publications gave the false news of her death, before it was clarified that the Shamshad Begum who died in 1998 was Saira Banu's (Dilip Kumar's wife) grandmother with the same name. The singer has been living with her daughter Usha Ratra and son-in-law in Mumbai, ever since her husband Ganpat Lal Batto died in 1955. Recently, she celebrated her 89th birthday at her elder sister's house and now she stays at - Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai She was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 2009.

Shamshad Begum
Born	April 14, 1919 (1919-04-14) (age 91) Amritsar, Punjab, India
Genres	Playback singing
Occupations	Singer
Years active	1934–1975

Career

Begum made her debut on radio on Peshawar Radio in Lahore on December 16, 1937, captivating the hearts of her listeners with the enchanting depth of her voice. Shamshad was very much conscious of her not so beautiful face and she never posed for any pictures and not many people saw her pictures anywhere. Until the end of the 1970s, nobody knew her face at all, though everybody could recognise her melodious voice as it was used by the great maestros like Naushad Ali and O. P. Nayyar. Even today, her songs from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s are popular and continue to be remixed by music directors.

Begum sang for the All India Radio (AIR) through her musical group 'The Crown Imperial Theatrical Company of Performing Arts', set up in Delhi. The then AIR Lahore helped her entering the world of movies as they frequently broadcast her songs, which induced music directors to use her voice for their films. Shamshad also recorded "naats" and devotional music for a couple of gramophone recording companies.

Her crystal-clear voice caught the attention of sarangi maestro Ustad Hussain Bakshwale Saheb, who took her as his disciple. Lahore-based composer Ghulam Haider used her voice skillfully in some of his earlier films like Khazanchi (1941) and Khandaan (1942). When he moved to Bombay in 1944, Shamshad went with him as a member of his team, leaving behind her family and staying with her Chacha (paternal uncle). She is credited with singing one of the first Westernised songs, Meri jaan...Sunday ke Sunday by C. Ramchandra. O.P. Nayyar describes her voice as that of a "temple bell" for its clarity of tone. Begum became a national rage between the 1940s and the late 1950s, having a voice different from her peers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Geeta Dutt and Amirbai Karnataki.

Songs

* Leke pehla pehla pyar - CID (1956) - music O.P.Nayyar

* Milte hi, aankhen dil hua - Babul - music Naushad

* Chali Chali kaisi yeh hawa yeh - Duet with Usha Mangeshkar- Bluffmaster(1965) - music: Kalyanji Anandji

* Kabhi aar kabhi paar zara dere chalo - Aar Paar - music O.P.Nayyar

* Meri neendon mein tum - Naya Andaz - music O.P.Nayyar

* O Gadiwale - Mother India - naushad

* Kahin pe nigahen kahin pe nishana - CID (1956) - music O.P. Nayyar

* Boojh Mera Kya Naam Re - (1956) - music O.P.Nayyar

* Mere piya gaye Rangoon - Patanga - music C.Ramchandra

* Ek Tera Sahara – Shama - music Master Ghulam Haider

* Holi aayee re Kanhaai - Mother India (1957) - Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni, Music: Naushad

* Naina Bhar aye neer - Humayun - music Master Ghulam Haider

* Chod Babul Ka Ghar - Babul - music Naushad

* Kajra Mohabbatwala Ankhiyon mein Aisa dala (Duet with Asha Bhosle) - Kismat (1968) - Music: O.P. Nayyar

* Meri neendon main tum, meri khwabon mein tum (Duet with Kishore Kumar) - Naya Andaz - Music: O.P.Nayyar

* Teri Mehfil Mein Qismat (Duet with Lata Mangeshkar) - Mughal-E-Azam

* Saiyan Dil mein aana re - Bahar