Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik (Hindi: अलका याज्ञिक or अलका याज्ञनिक) (born September 12, 1965 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India) is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best-known Hindi playback singers of all-time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award. Alka has done playback singing for over 550 Indian films, and has sung approximately 15,000 songs to date.
Alka Yagnik was born in Kolkata 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. She was advised to wait till her voice matured but her mother remained determined and on a subsequent visit, Alka got a letter of introduction to Raj Kapoor from his Kolkata distributor. Raj heard the girl and sent her with a letter to noted music director Laxmikant. Impressed, Laxmikant gave her two alternatives - an immediate start as a dubbing artist, or a later break as a singer; they settled for the latter.
Alka Yagnik is classically trained and has been one of the leading playback singers in Bollywood since the late 1980's. She began singing bhajans for Calcutta Radio at...
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