Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Alka Yagnik


Alka Yagnik born March 20, 1966 is an Indian singer and seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award. She is ranked among the best Bollywood playback singers of all time. Alka Yagnik was born in Calcutta to a Gujarati family. Her mother Shubha Yagnik was a singer of Indian classical music. At the age of 6, she started singing for Calcutta Radio. At age 10, her mother brought her to Bombay as a child singer.

Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1979), followed by Laawaris (1981) with the hit song "Mere Angene Mein", followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). She got her big break with the song "Ek Do Teen" from the film Tezaab (1988). The song turned her into a star overnight and went on to become a pop hit, also winning her a Filmfare Best Female Playback Award. Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak was also a career maker for her, as she along with Kumar sanu and Udit Narayan becoming household names.

Alka Yagnik has received numerous awards, and nominations in her singing career, apart from the awards listed below. She received the Filmfare award for Best Female Playback for three consecutive years from 1999–2001.

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