Friday, December 13, 2019
List of Playback Singers in India
Following are the list of popular playback singers in India. Check singers from golden classic film era to modern cinema.
Playback Singers
Check below playback singer list in Indian Cinema.
P. Bhanumathi
Bhanumathi Ramakrishna was a multilingual Indian film actress, director, music director, singer, producer, book writer and songwriter. Widely known as the first female super star of Telugu cinema and South Indian film Industry, she is also known for her works in Tamil cinema. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2003 for her contribution in Indian cinema. She was honored among "women in cinema" at the 30th International Film Festival of India.
Alisha Chinai
Alisha Chinai, formerly known as Alisha Chinoy or her former stage name Alisha, is an Indian pop singer known for her Indi-pop albums as well as playback singing in Hindi cinema.
Malavika
Malavika is a Tollywood playback singer. Malavika started her singing career with the song "Nuvvu nenu kalisunte" for the movie Gangotri. Malavika, who is a Nandi Award winner as the 'best playback singer' for the years 2006 and 2011 has sung for around 500 movies till date. She was also the winner of ETV Padutha Teeyaga as a child. She is regularly seen on shows like ETV Swarabhishekam, MAATV super singer series7,8 and 9.
Alka Ajith
Alka Ajith is an Indian playback singer, best known for winning season 2 of Airtel Super Singer Junior, a Tamil language music competition reality TV show broadcast on Vijay TV. She was awarded the Jaycey Foundation Best Female Singer Award in 2017.
Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik is an Indian playback singer. She is noted in Indian cinema for a career spanning over three decades. She holds a record of being the only nominee in the category of Female Playback Singer, as in the year 1994 she had three solo nomination and the fourth one was with Ila Arun. 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 as well as several other music awards and honours listed below. Further, as many as twenty of her tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time" review. She is one of prolific female playback singer who has sung maximum number of female solos in her Bollywood career..
Amirbai Karnataki
Amirbai Karnataki was a famous actress/singer and playback singer of the early Hindi cinema and was famous as Kannada Kokila. Mahatma Gandhi was an ardent fan of her song Vaishnav Jan To.
Ranjini Jose
Ranjini Jose is an Indian playback singers, lending her voice to several songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages. In a career spanning over 20 years, she has sung in over 200 movies and has acted in more than a couple, including the 2017 drama Basheerinte Premalekhanam. After getting a break in the Chorus Peters Chochin Chorus Troupe in 1998, she made her Playback singing debut in the Malayalam cinema Melevaryathe Malakhakkuttikal, beside K. S. Chithra.
Andrea Jeremiah
Andrea Jeremiah is an Indian actress, playback singer, musician and dancer. She works predominantly in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries she also appeared in Telugu Films. She began her career as a playback singer, and has subsequently appeared in films.
Annupamaa
Annupamaa is an Indian playback singer from Tamil Nadu. She is known especially for the song "Chandralekha" from Thiruda Thiruda. She is also trained in Carnatic music and a 6th grade solo pianist from Trinity College London.She adores the singing styles of both Asha Bhosle in Bollywood and k S Chitra in South Indian music industry.
Anupama Deshpande
Anupama Deshapande is a Bollywood playback singer who has won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her folk song "Sohni Chinab De" in the film Sohni Mahiwal .
Anuradha Bhat
Anuradha Bhat is an Indian playback singer for the feature films. She sings predominantly in Kannada language films. Bhat has recorded for over 1500 feature films under the music direction of all the prominent Kannada composers like Hamsalekha, Gurukiran, V. Harikrishna, Mano Murthy, Arjun Janya among others. She has recorded more than 5000 songs in 15 different languages for various music albums. Bhat is the recipient of Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer , two times Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Kannada , SIIMA - Best female singer - Kannada , Mirchi Music Award , Aryabhata International Award and many more.
Anuradha Paudwal
Anuradha Paudwal is an Indian playback singer who works in Bollywood. She was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, by the Government of India in 2017. She is a recipient of the National Film Award and a four-time winner of the Filmfare Award. Although primarily a filmi singer, she has also sung several bhajans.
Anuradha Sriram
Anuradha Sriram is an Indian carnatic and playback singer who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 2,000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films.
Anushka Manchanda
Anushka Manchanda is an Indian singer, model, actress and former VJ. She came to prominence as a member of the Indipop girl group Viva!. Manchanda was also a participant in the reality television series Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.
Aparna Balamurali
Aparna Balamurali is an Indian film actress and playback singer who works in Malayalam cinema and Tamil cinema . She is best known for her role as Jimsy in Maheshinte Prathikaaram and Anu in Sunday Holiday .
Aarti Mukherji
Aarti Mukherji is a Bengali playback singer who has also sung in Hindi films such as Geet Gata Chal , Tapasya , Manokamana and Masoom .
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle is an Indian playback singer and an entrepreneur. She is best known for her playback singing in Hindi cinema, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies. In addition, she has recorded several private albums and participated in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad. In 2006, Asha Bhosle stated that she had sung over 12,000 songs, a figure repeated by several other sources. In 2011, she was officially acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most recorded artist in music history. The Government of India honoured her with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2000 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2008. Bhosle is the sister of playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.
B. R. Chaya
Bengaluru Ramamurthy Chaya is an Indian playback singer, stage performer and a popular Sugama Sangeetha singer from Karnataka state. She has performed pop, folk, devotional and bhavageethe . She is affectionately known as the "Nightingale of Karnataka", a Rajyotsava Prashasti recipient from the State Government of Karnataka and recipient of Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer twice.
Bhavatharini
Bhavatharani Raja is an Indian Tamil singer and music director. She is the daughter of film composer Ilaiyaraaja and her brothers are the noted film composers Karthik Raja and Yuvan Shankar Raja. She has mostly sung songs under the direction of her father and brothers. She was awarded the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2000 for her rendition of the song "Mayil Pola Ponnu Onnu" from the film Bharathi, composed by her father Ilaiyaraaja.
Bela Shende
Bela Shende is an Indian playback singer. She performed several songs in Bollywood and regional films. "Mann Mohana" from the film Jodhaa Akbar, "Su Che" from the film What's Your Raashee?, "Wajle Ki Baara" and "Apsara Aali" from Natarang are some of her famous songs. In 2014 she was awarded the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Khurkhura" from the Marathi film Tuhya Dharma Koncha.
Bombay Jayashri
"Bombay" Jayashri Ramnath, born into a family of musicians, represents the fourth generation of music practitioners in her family. Trained by Lalgudi Jayaraman and T R Balamani, she went on to become one of the most sought after Carnatic musicians today.
Chaitra H. G.
Chaitra H. G. is an Indian playback singer who has sung for Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films. She is the daughter of H. S. Gopinath, a tabla player and a renowned Hindustani classical vocalist. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, alongside being skilled at gymnastics and fencing.
Charulatha Mani
Dr. Charulatha Mani is an Indian Carnatic and playback singer. She has been performing Carnatic concerts since 1999. She has also sung for movies. Charulatha has appeared in numerous TV shows and radio programmes, in India, and overseas. She has recorded many, CD and DVD albums. Her Isai Payanam TV show, aired on Jaya TV, deals with Ragas in Carnatic and film music and has completed more than 80 episodes.She recently received her PhD from the prestigious Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, on Hybridising carnatic Music and Early Opera. Charu’s music is known for its impeccable adherence to the Karnatik principles. It is also known for being courageous and out there. It is this ongoing interplay, of newness and the vintage, that has become the hallmark of her unique performance philosophy and signature style. This interesting interweave derives from her strong belief that Karnatik music must embrace innovation, inclusivity and diversity in contemporary society.
Chinmayi
Chinmayi Sripada is an Indian playback singer, working mainly for the South Indian film industry. She is also a voice actor, television presenter and radio jockey. She is the founder and CEO of a translation services company called Blue Elephant. She is often credited as Chinmayee/Indai Hazaa but her birth name is Chinmayi. She rose to fame for her critically acclaimed song "Oru Deivam Thantha Poovae" from the National Award winning movie Kannathil Muthamittal.
Chitra Singh
Chitra Singh is an Indian ghazal singer. She with her husband Jagjit Singh pulled the ghazal genre out of the drawing room of the elite and brought it to the masses. Respectfully known as the "king and queen of the Ghazal world," the husband and wife duo created some of the most successful Indian music of the 1970s and '80s.
Dominique Cerejo
Dominique Cerejo is an Indian female playback singer best known for the song "Yeh Tumhari Meri Baatein" from Rock On!!. She has sung in over thirty bollywood soundtrack albums. She is married to Clinton Cerejo, who also works in the Indian music industry.
Falguni Pathak
Falguni Pathak is an Indian singer, performing artist, and composer based in Mumbai. Her music is based on traditional musical forms from the Indian state of Gujarat. Since her professional debut in 1997, she has developed into an artist with a large fan base across India. Once asked how she decided to take up singing as a career, she replied that it happened by default.
Gayatri Asokan
Gayatri Asokan is a playback singer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. Apart from singing, she also composes music for albums and jingles. She is well trained in Bhajans and Hindustani and ghazals. She started her playback career with the song "Deena Dayalo Rama" for the film Arayannagalude Veedu under music director Raveendran. "Enthe Nee Kanna" for Sasneham Sumitra won her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer in 2003. Her memorable hits include "Chanjadi Adi" from Makalkku, "Thumbikkinnaram" from Naran and "Pularumo" from Ritu.
Gayatri Iyer
Gayatri Ganjawala is an Indian playback singer, primarily in Bollywood. She landed up with the part of Princess Anjuli in the West End of London musical production of M. M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions, which opened in the summer of 2007.
Geeta Dutt
Geeta Dutt was a prominent Indian playback singer and a famous Hindi and Bengali classical artist, born in Faridpur before the Partition of India. She found particular prominence as a playback singer in Hindi cinema. She also sang many modern Bengali songs, both in the film and non-film genre.
Geetha Madhuri
Geetha Madhuri Sonti is an Indian playback singer and dubbing artist who works primarily in South Indian Film Industry. She became famous with the song "ninne ninne" from the movie Nachavule for which she won Nandi Award as the best female playback singer. She also won two Filmfare awards. She has sung in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada,Hindi and Malayalam. She has recorded more than 550 songs for various films and albums. In south Geetha called as South indian Shreya Ghoshal.She has participated in an MAA TV show called Super Singer. She is runner up of Bigg Boss Telugu 2 show on Star Maa.
Harshdeep Kaur
Harshdeep Kaur is an Indian singer known for her Bollywood Hindi, Punjabi, and Sufi songs. She is popularly known as "Sufi Ki Sultana" because of her soulful Sufi renditions. After winning titles in two reality shows, Kaur established herself as a lead singer in Bollywood soundtracks. Kaur was sixteen years old when she released her first Bollywood song, "Sajna Mai Haari."
Hard Kaur
Taran Kaur Dhillon , known by her stage name Hard Kaur, is an Indian rapper and hip hop singer; as well as playback singer and actress in Bollywood.
Harini
Harini is an Indian film playback singer and classical singer, who sings mainly in Tamil films. She sings in Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada language films, whilst working with many leading film composers. She considers legendary singer K. S. Chitra as her inspiration. She is married to another playback singer Tippu.
Hema Sardesai
Hema Sardesai, also known as Hemaa Sardesai, is an Indian playback singer and lyricist. Hema hails from the coastal state of Goa, in India, and was born in Mumbai. She shot to fame in the 1990s with songs from movies like Sapnay, Biwi No. 1 and Jaanam Samjha Karo.
Hemlata
Hemlata is an Indian playback singer in Bollywood best known for her songs in the late 1970s. She is classically trained. She established herself in film, concerts, television and music.
Ila Arun
Ila Arun is an Indian actress, TV personality and Rajasthani folk / folk-pop singer. She has appeared in many prominent Bollywood movies such as Lamhe, Jodhaa Akbar, Shaadi Ke Side Effects and Begum Jaan.
Indu Nagaraj
Indu Nagaraj is an Indian playback singer who primarily works in Kannada cinema. Through her successful singing career, she is the recipient of a Filmfare Award for the song "Pyarge Aagbittaite" from the film Govindaya Namaha .
Jasmin Walia
Jasmin Walia is a British Indian television personality, singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman. She first came into limelight with the British reality television show The Only Way Is Essex. She gained popularity with her English-Punjabi single "Dum Dee Dee Dum" . Her English-Punjabi track, "Bom Diggy" with Zack Knight, featured in the top Indian pop charts.
Jaspinder Narula
Jaspinder Narula is a Punjabi singer and Bollywood playback singer. She is also a Sufi music singer.
Jency Anthony
Jency Anthony is a South Indian film playback singer who has worked with film composers like Ilayaraaja in Tamil films.
Jikki
Pillavalu Gajapathi Krishnaveni , more famously known as Jikki, was an Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh. She sang around 10,000 songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Sinhala languages. Her mother tongue was Telugu. She spoke Tamil fluently.
Jonita Gandhi
Jonita Gandhi is an Indian-Canadian playback singer. She is of Indian origin. She is an adaptable virtuoso who sings in a variety of languages including English, French, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada and Malayalam. She is known to the Indo-Canadian community as Toronto's Nightingale. A young and promising new talent, her name has taken music lovers worldwide by storm. Hundreds of thousands of fans across the globe have come to know her through her YouTube presence through her channel and a collaboration with the South Asian a cappella group Penn Masala; even A.R. Rahman discovered her vocal talent through her YouTube channel. She has grown in her career as an award-winning Playback Singer. Her singing debut in Bollywood started through 'Chennai Express' Title track.
Jyotsna Radhakrishnan
Jyotsna Radhakrishnan is a playback singer in Malayalam cinema. She is based in Thrissur, Kerala. Jyotsna is a world-famous playback singer, Jyotsna became world-famous by singing such songs as “Karuppinazhaku”, “Themma Themma Themmadikkatte”.
Kalpana Raghavendar
Kalpana Raghavendar is an Indian playback singer, Winner of idea Star Singer Malayalam and participant in Bigg Boss Telugu Season 1, songwriter and actor. She started her career as a playback singer at the age of five, and as of 2013 had recorded 1,500 tracks and performed in 3,000 shows in India and abroad.
Kalpana Patowary
Kalpana Patowary is an Indian playback and folk singer from Assam. She sings in 30 languages.She participated in the reality show Junoon - Kuchh Kar Dikhaane Ka on NDTV Imagine. Although she has many folk and popular songs to her credit, Bhojpuri music has been her most dedicated foray.
Kanika Kapoor
Kanika Kapoor is an Indian singer. Through her singing career, she has received one Filmfare Award.
Kanan Devi
Kanan Devi singing "Ami Banaphul Go" From the 1942 film Shesh Uttar Problems playing this file? See media help.
Kavita Krishnamurthy
Kavita Krishnamurthy is an Indian film playback singer who has sung songs in Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, English, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Nepali, Bengali,Assamese, Konkani and Odiya Etc. Trained in classical music, Kavita Krishnamurthy has recorded more than 25,000 songs in 16 languages in a career span of 30 years. Working with almost all the music composers including Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Naushad, S H Bihari, Kaifi Azmi, Anjan, O P Nayyar, Khayyam, Hemant Kumar, Ravinder Jain, Bappi Lahiri, Sameer, Anand Bakshi, Javid Akthar, Anu Malik, R. D. Burman, Himesh Reshammiya, Hamsalekha, Zubeen Garg and A. R. Rahman. She is also the recipient of four Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards, including three consecutive awards in the period 1994–1996, and the Padmashri which she received in 2005. In 1999, she married violinist L. Subramaniam and residing in Bengaluru.
K. S. Chithra
Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer and carnatic musician from Kerala. Chithra also sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. She has more than 25,000 recorded songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tulu, Rajasthani, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Badaga, as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese, English and French. She is considered as the one among the "First ladies" of India who was honoured by the President of India.
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar ) is an Indian playback singer and music director. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. She has recorded songs in over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi, Hindi, and Bengali.
L. R. Eswari
Lourde-Mary Rajeswari Eswari is a veteran playback singer of the Tamil cinema, Telugu cinema, Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema industries. She also sang in other languages like Hindi, Tulu, and English. She has won Kalaimamani, the Tamil Nadu's state award, for her contributions to the film industry.
Madhushree
Madhushree is an Indian singer, who sings in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. A familiar voice in A. R. Rahman's compositions, Madhushree hails from a musically inclined family, having previously been trained in classical and western styles music. Her father wanted her to be a classical singer, Madhushree joined the Rabindra Bharati University and completed her masters, but her desire was always to be a playback singer.
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs. She has sung in many other Indian languages as well, including Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Assamese, and Kannada.
Mahathi
Mahathi is a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in several Indian languages.
Malgudi Subha
Malgudi Subha is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi. In a career spanning two decades, she sang more than 3000 songs.
Mamta Sharma
Mamta Sharma is an Indian playback singer. She is known for the song Munni Badnaam Hui from Dabangg. The song was a chartbuster and fetched her several awards and nominations, including a Filmfare award for Best Playback Singer .
Manjari
Manjari is an Indian playback singer and Hindustani vocalist. She was born in 1986 at Taliparamba in Kannur district and grew up in Muscat .Her first stage performance was with Shiva, the Kolkata - based rock bad, when she was in class eight.
Megha
Harini Ramachandran, professionally known as Megha is a Tamil playback singer, singing predominantly in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. She is also a co-founder of School of Excellence, that offers NLP programs and models.
Minmini
Minmini is a South Indian film playback singer. She is best remembered for the song "Chinna Chinna Aasai" from Roja, the debut work of film composer A. R. Rahman, which was dubbed in Hindi as "Choti Si Asha". Though she is from Kerala, most of her memorable songs are in Tamil, most of them composed by Ilaiyaraaja and A. R. Rahman. Her hit Malayalam songs include "Souparnikamritha" from Kizhakkunarum Pakshi, "Oonjal Urangi", and "Neelaraavi" from Kudumbasametham. She has lent her voice to hit songs from films including Enga Thambi , Karuththamma , and Thevar Magan . She made a comeback in 2015 with the song "Kanmaniye" from Mili.
Monali Thakur
Monali Thakur is an Indian singer and actress. She is the recipient of a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award. Thakur won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Moh Moh Ke Dhaage" from the film Dum Laga Ke Haisha and the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Sawaar Loon" from the film Lootera . She was a judge on Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2014. She was also an "expert" on Colors TV's Rising Star for two consecutive seasons.
Mridula Warrier
Mridula Varier is an Indian playback singer from Kerala. She started her career as a playback singer in the Malayalam movie Big B in 2007. She has also recorded songs for Tamil,Telugu and Kannada films. She was the first runner-up of Idea Star Singer in 2010.
Mubarak Begum
Mubarak Begum was an Indian vocalist who sang in the Hindi and Urdu languages. She was playback singer in Bollywood films during the 1950s and 1960s. She had also recorded and given public performances in a number of other genres, including Ghazal and Na`at.
Nanditha
Nanditha is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in the Kannada film industry, she sings in other languages such as Tamil and Telugu. Nanditha began her playback career from the film Habba . Since then, she has won numerous awards including the Karnataka State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards South for her singing.
Neeti Mohan
Neeti Mohan is an Indian singer. She sings mainly in Hindi films, but has also done songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, and English. Born in Delhi, she was one of the winners of the Channel V's reality show Popstars, subsequently being chosen for Aasma, with other winners of the show. She rose to prominence after recording "Ishq Wala Love" from Student of the Year , ultimately winning the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent and was nominated for the Best Female Playback Singer for "Jiya Re" from Jab Tak Hai Jaan .
Neha Kakkar
Neha Kakkar is an Indian playback singer. She competed on season 2 of the television reality show Indian Idol in 2006 and was a judge on the tenth and eleventh season of the same show i.e. Indian Idol 10 and 11 respectively.She also appeared in Comedy Circus Ke Taansen in 2014 on Sony TV. She had judged a singing reality show on Zee TV named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs.
Neha Rajpal
Neha Rajpal is a producer, singer and anchor in the Indian music industry, Hindi films, and especially the Marathi regional music industry. She has also performed in various other Indian languages including Bengali, Kannada, Telugu, Sindhi, Gujarati and Chhattisgarhi. Neha spells her name as 'Nehha'. Neha has produced her maiden Marathi film PhotoCopy under the banner "Neha Rajpal Productions" in association with Viacom18. The film is written by national award winner Vijay Maurya and Yogesh Vinayak Joshi and is slated for release in 2016.
Nihira Joshi
Nihira Joshi is an Indian singer. She was a Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 finalist achieving 5th place with public votes. Joshi is also a member of Ismail Darbar's "Yalgar Ho" Gharana.
Nithyasree Mahadevan
Nithyasree Mahadevan , also referred to as S. Nithyashri, is a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. Nithyashree has performed in all major sabhas in India. She has released more than 500 albums. She is best known for her rendition of the A. R. Rahman composition, "Kannodu Kaanbadhellam" - her playback debut song in the Tamil movie Jeans.
Najim Arshad
Najim Arshad is an Indian playback singer and music director, working in the Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi film industries. In 2007, he won the reality show Idea Star Singer. He studied in Swathi Thirunal College of Music and holds graduation and post-graduation degree in Music. He was the Rank Holder of University of Kerala in Bachelor Of Performing Arts. He also won the Kalaprathibha title 13 times at the district and sub-district levels during his early school days.
P. Susheela
Pulapaka Suseela , popularly known as P. Suseela, is an Indian playback singer associated with the South Indian cinema primarily from Andhra Pradesh for over six decades. She has been recognized by both the Guinness Book of World Records and the Asia Book of Records for singing the most songs in different Indian languages by a female singer. She is also the recipient of five National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer and numerous state awards. Susheela is widely acclaimed as a singer who defined feminism in South Indian cinema and is well known for her mellifluous vocal performances for over 50,000 film songs across South Indian languages.
Palak Muchhal
Palak Muchhal is an Indian playback singer. She and her younger brother Palash Muchhal perform stage shows across India and abroad to raise funds for the poor children who need financial assistance for the medical treatment of heart diseases. As of 8 December 2016, she has raised funds through her charity shows which has helped to save lives of 1333 children suffering from heart ailments. Muchhal has made her entry in both Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of World Records for great achievements in social work. Her work is also recognised by the Government of India and other public institutions through various awards and honours. Muchhal also performs as a playback singer for Bollywood films. She has rendered her voice in Hindi films such as Ek Tha Tiger , Aashiqui 2 , Kick and Action Jackson Prem Ratan Dhan Payo M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Kaabil , Baaghi 2 and Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas .
Pop Shalini
Shalini Singh, popularly called as Pop Shalini, is a singer from Tamil Nadu, India. She released an album 'Shalini' when she was only 13. She has sung over 5000 songs in various Indian languages for Indian films and albums. She has sung for the likes of A.R.Rahman, Harris Jayaraj, Illayaraja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidhyasagar and many others.
Prashanthini
Prashanthini is a playback singer singing predominantly in Tamil. She is the daughter of Malaysian Tamil playback singer Malaysia Vasudevan and sister of Auckland-based singer-actor Yugendran.
Priya Himesh
Priya Himesh is an Indian multilingual Playback singer for the feature films. She sings predominantly in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Odia movies.
Priyadarshini
Priyadarshini is an Indian playback singer. She began her singing career by performing a duet song with Hariharan for the Tamil film Kadhal Dot Com under music director Bharathwaj. She later sung a duet with S. P. Balasubrahmanyam for Yash's Kannada movie Rocky. She has sung over 80 movies in the Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi languages. She has worked with renowned music directors including Bharathwaj, D. Imman, Hamsalekha, Mano Murthy, Gurukiran, R.P.Patnaik, Rajesh Ramnath, K. Kalyan, S A Rajkumar, Venkat, Ganesh Narayan, M N Krupakar, Mahesh Mahadev, C R Bobby, Ravish A T and others. The soundtrack for her recent Tamil Movie Naan Than Bala was released by Venkat Krishi. Her few hit movies include Cheluvina Chittara, Rocky, News, Nandhi, Preethiyinda Ramesh, Kusthi, Seena, Nermugam, Nannedeya Haadu, Win, Kadhal Dot Com, Giri, Simhabaludu, Manikyam 420 and many others. She has sung on over 200 albums and jingles. She is a first Indian Playback Singer to pursue PhD research in Film Music from University of Mysore .
Rajkumari Dubey
Rajkumari Dubey , better known by her first name, Rajkumari, was an Indian playback singer who worked in Hindi cinema of 1930s and 1940s. Best known for her songs, "Sun Bairi Baalam Sach Bol Re" in Bawre Nain , "Ghabaraa Ke Jo Hum Sar Ko Takraayan" in Mahal and "Najariya Ki Maari" in Pakeezah .
Reena Bhardwaj
Reena Bhardwaj is a British Indian singer, songwriter and recording artist best known for her collaborations with AR Rahman and Nitin Sawhney. Versatile to genre and language, her repertoire includes a variety of Indian Traditional, Bollywood, World and Popular styles sung in various Indian languages and English.
Rekha Bhardwaj
Rekha Bhardwaj is an Indian singer and live performer. She has received two Filmfare and one National Awards. In addition to Hindi, she has also sung in Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi and Malayalam languages.
Richa Sharma
Richa Sharma is an Indian film playback singer as well a devotional singer. In 2006, she sang Bollywood's longest track, the bidaai song, in film Baabul .
Rimi Tomy
Rimi Tomy is an Indian playback singer, television host, and actress. She started her career by anchoring music programs in television and sang her first song "Chingamasam Vannu Chernnal" in the film Meesa Madhavan.
Roopa Revathi
Roopa Revathi , also known as Roopa K.R., is an Indian playback singer and Violinist from Kerala. She started her career as a playback singer in the Malayalam movie Madampi in 2008. She has also recorded songs for Tamil and Kannada films. She was the winner of the reality show Amrita TV Super Star Global, a musical talent hunt show hosted by Amrita TV.
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Ruma Guha Thakurta was an Indian actress and singer primarily associated with Bengali language films. She founded Calcutta Youth Choir in 1958.
S. Janaki
Sistla Janaki , popularly known as S. Janaki, is an Indian playback singer and occasional music-composer from Andhra Pradesh. She is one of the best-known playback singers in South India and has recorded nearly 48,000 songs in films, albums, TV and Radio including solos, duets and chorus songs in more than 37 languages including those native to India (mainly in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Odiya, Bengali, Tulu, Badaga, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Sindhi, Assamese, Konkani and also in languages such as English, Japanese, Latin, Arabic, German, Sinhala, French, Bangla, Russian and Chinese. Starting in 1957 with the Tamil film Vidhiyin Vilayattu, her career has spanned over six decades.
S. P. Sailaja
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Sailaja is an Indian singer and actress who has lent her voice to Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films. She has sung about 6000 songs to date.
Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is an Indian singer known for playback career in Indian cinema. She is a recipient of the National Film Award and Filmfare Awards South. She has also won five Maharashtra State Film awards, four Gujarat State Film Awards and has also been awarded the 'Lata Mangeshkar Award' from the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Samantha Edwards
Samantha Edwards is an Indian singer and vocal coach based in Mumbai. Her styles include Jazz, R&B, Funk, Blues and Soul. Having worked as a Singer, Composer and lyricist since 1992, she began Voice Coaching since 2006. She is a well recognised Vocal Coach in Western Modern / Contemporary Music and has coached several students, amateurs, semi-professional and professional singers including well known industry professionals like Priyanka Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Varun Dhawan, Nargis Fakhri, Alia Bhatt, Shrradha Pandit, Vasuda Sharma, Shahana Goswami, Hazel Keech, Preeti Desai and others.
Sandhya Mukhopadhyay
Sandhya Mukhopadhyay is an Bangali playback singer and musician, specialising in Bengali music. Born in Kolkata, Bengal , India, she received Banga Bibhushan, the highest civilian honour in West Bengal in 2011 and National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her songs in the films Jay Jayanti and Nishi Padma in the year 1970.
Sanjeevani
.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:0.5em 1.4em 0.8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:0.5em 0 0.8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{margin:0.5em auto 0.8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft p,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright p{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{background-color:#F9F9F9;text-align:center;font-size:larger;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and {.mw-parser-output .quotebox{min-width:100%;margin:0 0 0.8em!important;float:none!important}} Meerabai's 'magan-bhaav is the magic mantra to happiness'. —Sanjeevani
Santha P. Nair
Shantha P. Nair was a playback singer in Malayalam cinema. She was based in Thrissur, Kerala.
Sapna Mukherjee
Sapna Mukherjee is a Bollywood playback singer who won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Tirchi Topi Wale" in Tridev .
Shakthisree Gopalan
Shakthisree Gopalan is an Indian vocalist, songwriter and performer, famous for her collaborations with the top south-Indian music directors/composers like A. R. Rahman. Aside from the film music She has been making a substantial impact in the independent music scene, performing with various bands over the years dabbling in Pop, R'n'B, trip-hop and jazz.
Shalmali Kholgade
Shalmali Kholgade is an Indian playback singer, who predominantly sings for Hindi language films. In addition to Hindi, she has also sung in other Indian languages such as Marathi, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil. Through her singing career, she has received one Filmfare Award from two nominations, and has been praised for her singing style.
Shamshad Begum
Shamshad Begum was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry. She had a distinctive voice and was a versatile artist, singing over 6,000 songs in Hindi and Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Punjabi languages and of them 1287 songs were Hindi film songs. She worked with maestros including Naushad Ali, S. D. Burman, C. Ramchandra and O. P. Nayyar. Her songs from the 1940s to the early 1970s remain popular and continue to be remixed.
Sharda Rajan Iyengar
Sharda Rajan Iyengar, or Sharda, is an India playback singer in the 1960s and 1970s. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the cabaret "Baat Zara Hai Aapas Ki" in Jahan Pyar Miley , though she is most remembered for her song "Titli Udi" in Suraj . In 2007, she released the album Andaaz-e-Bayan Aur, featuring her own compositions based on Mirza Ghalib's ghazals.
Shashaa Tirupati
Shashaa Tirupati is an Indo-Canadian playback singer, voice-over artist, songwriter, motivational speaker, and theatre actor of Kashmiri origin. As a vocalist, Tirupati has recorded songs in 13 languages including Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Konkani, Arabic and English. She has more than 200 songs to her credit. She plays the western classical guitar, keyboards, harmonium and kazoo.
Shazneen Arethna
Shazneen Arethna is an Indian playback singer. She is known for her voice as she sang the song "I Hate You ", penned by Akshat Verma, Ram Sampath in the movie Delhi Belly. She had sung the opening theme for the television series Sunaina. During the Mumbai's Rock festival, Independence Rock Festival 2010, she had shared the stage with stalwart musicians "rock" like Dhruv Ghanekar, Warren Mendonsa, Loy Mendonsa, Ehsaan Noorani, Farhad Wadia , Ravi Iyer, Chandresh Kudwa and Sidd Coutto.
Shilpa Rao
Shilpa Rao is an Indian singer. Raised in Jamshedpur, she moved to Mumbai at the age of 13. She completed her Master's in Applied Statistics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, before working as a jingle singer for three years. During her college days, Mithoon offered her to record the song "Tose Naina" from Anwar , making her Bollywood career debut.
Sharda Sinha
Sharda Sinha is a Maithili folk-singer from Bihar, India. She was born in Hulas, Raghopur, Supaul district of Bihar and is considered to be one of the most celebrated and renowned singers of Bihar who sings in Maithili and other languages like Bhojpuri and Magahi. She is known for her maithili version of the Chhath Puja themed song "Ho dinanath". She got civilian award Padma Bhushan on the eve of Republic Day, 2018.
Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal is an Indian playback singer. She has received four National Film Awards, four Kerala State Film Awards, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, seven Filmfare Awards including six for Best Female Playback Singer and nine Filmfare Awards South. She has recorded songs for film music and albums in various Indian languages and has established herself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema.
Shibani Kashyap
Shibani Kashyap is an India singer, who is actively working in Bollywood film industry. She has Judged a reality singing show named Bathroom Singer.
Shruti Pathak
Shruti Pathak is a Filmfare Award-nominated Indian playback singer and lyricist working in Hindi film industry.
Shubha Mudgal
Shubha Mudgal is an Indian singer of Hindustani classical music. Her repertoire includes the genres of Khayal, Thumri and Dadra, as also popular Indian pop music. She has received several awards and accolades for her artistic accomplishments, including the Padma Shri, awarded in 2000.
Shweta Mohan
Shweta Mohan is an Indian playback singer. She has received four Filmfare Awards South for Best Female Playback Singer, one Kerala State Film Awards and one Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She has recorded songs for film music and albums in all the four South Indian languages namely, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada along with the Hindi language and has established herself as a leading playback singer of South Indian cinema. Some of her inspirations are Sujatha Mohan, Alka Yagnik and K.S. Chitra
Shweta Pandit
Shweta Pandit is an Indian singer and actress in Bollywood. She is the grand-niece of Indian classical vocalist and Padma Vibhushan awardee, Pandit Jasraj. She has also recorded popular songs for various Telugu and Tamil film songs and many other Indian languages.
Shirley Setia
Shirley Setia is a New Zealand singer and performer. She is from Auckland, New Zealand. Shirley is making her film debut with Nikamma.
Sravana Bhargavi
Sravana Bhargavi is a South Indian playback singer. She has recorded several songs in Telugu.
Sithara
Sithara Krishnakumar is an Indian playback singer and composer and an occasional actor. She predominantly works in Malayalam cinema in addition to Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. Sithara is trained in Hindustani and Carnatic classical music traditions and is also a recognised ghazal singer. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer.
Sona Mohapatra
Sona Mohapatra is an Indian singer, music composer and lyricist born in Cuttack, Odisha. She has performed in concerts across the world and has been featured in albums, singles, concert webcasts, music videos, Bollywood films and advertisements. In addition to her own material, Mohapatra has recorded remixes of songs by David Bowie, with "Let's Dance", and INXS, with "Afterglow", with the latter proving particularly successful.
Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury
Somlata Acharyya Chowdhury is a Bengali singer from West Bengal, India. She is a playback singer in Tollywood films and also has her own solo albums. She is also a guest lecturer of psychology at the Asutosh College in Kolkata.
Sowmya Raoh
Sowmya Raoh is an Indian playback singer who has performed in Kannada, Tamil, Hindi and Telugu languages.
Srilekha Parthasarathy
Srilekha Parthasarathy (Tamil: ஸ்ரீலேகா பார்த்தசாரதிis a Tamil singer. She is commonly referred to by her first name Srilekha. She began her professional career in 2000, when she recorded the jingle for the "Idhayam Oil" advertisement, which appeared on Jothika. She describes the jingle as her ticket into the Tamil music industry.
Sudha Malhotra
Sudha Malhotra is an Indian playback singer. She also acted in some Bollywood films and as a playback singer, worked in popular Bollywood movies in the 1950s and 1960s, like Arzoo, Dhool Ka Phool, Ab Dilli Door Nahin, Girl Friend, Barsat Ki Raat, Didi, Kala Pani, Prem Rog and Dekh Kabira Roya. She was last heard in Raj Kapoor's Prem Rog in the song "Yeh Pyar tha ya kuch aur tha". Apart from Hindi songs, Sudha sang many popular Marathi songs with Arun Date.
Sujatha
Sujatha Mohan is an Indian playback singer who is popular for singing in Malayalam and Tamil movies. She has also sung for Telugu, Kannada and Hindi movies. She has sung many songs in Malayalam, making her the fourth-most prolific Malayalam singer.
Sulakshana Pandit
Sulakshana Pratap Narain Pandit is an Indian playback singer and former Bollywood leading lady. Her brothers are the composing duo Jatin–Lalit and her younger sister is Vijayta Pandit who achieved fame with her debut movie Love Story. Her uncle is the accomplished classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj. She won a Filmfare Best Female Playback Award in 1975 for her song "Tu Hi Sagar Hai, Tu Hi Kinara".
Suman Kalyanpur
Suman Kalyanpur is an Indian playback singer. One of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Many people believe that she could not reach the stature and position which her talent really warranted, in spite of having all the mandatory characteristics required to make a mark in the field of playback singing like great knowledge of classical music, a melodious voice and a wide range.
Sunitha Sarathy
Sunitha Sarathy is an Indian vocalist and performer in both Indian contemporary and Western classical music genres. She is also a gospel singer who performs in various church choirs. After having won the "Virgin Voice Choice" contest – a joint initiative of Channel V and Virgin Records in the year 2000, Sarathy debuted into film playback in the year 2002.
Sunitha Upadrashta
Sunitha Upadrasta is a playback singer, anchor, host, dubbing artist & actress in the Telugu film industry, also known as Tollywood. She has received a National Award from All India Radio under light music category, two Film fare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer one each for Telugu and Kannada, 9 Nandi Awards; the highest award ceremony for excellence in Telugu cinema, theater, television, and Lifetime achievements in Indian cinema, presented annually by the earlier Government of combined state Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. She received her first Nandi award in the year 1999 and bagged the prestigious awards in a row for the years 2002 to 2006 and again for the years 2010 to 2012. She was also honored with Lata Mangeshkar Best Singer Award for 2011 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. In the year 2019, Sunitha was honored with New Jersey state recognition award by the Senate and General assembly of the state of New Jersey passing a resolution to salute her excellence and contributions to the world of music and Indian Cinema, a rare felicitation given to an Indian artist by the state of New Jersey.
Surmukhi Raman
Surmukhi Raman , born on 15 September 1983 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu is an Indian playback singer from Tamil Nadu. She was brought up in Pune, Maharashtra. She occasionally writes lyrics. She is one of the emerging playback singers in South India. She has done playback for more than 150 film songs in four languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. In addition, she has recorded a number of devotionals. She has performed in numerous concerts in India and abroad.
Sushma Shrestha
Poornima Shrestha , also known as Sushma Shrestha, is an Indian playback singer who has sung many songs in Indian music industries. Sushma started her career as a child singer in Ramesh Sippy's 1971 film Andaz. In that film, she sang under the music direction of Shankar Jaikishan the song "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" along with Mohammed Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur and Pratibha. The song went on to become a hit.
Sunanda Sharma
Sunanda Sharma is an Indian playback singer and film actress. She made her debut with the song "Billi Akh". Sharma also recently began her acting career in the film Sajjan Singh Rangroot with co-stars Diljit Dosanjh and Yograj Singh. Sunanda Sharma started her Bollywood career with "Tere Naal Nachna" song.
Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer. Born in Delhi, she began performing in local gatherings at the age of 4 and made her career debut at the age of 12, with the film Shastra . During the year, she won the first singing reality show titled Meri Awaz Suno and rose to prominence after recording "Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi" from Mast . It won her Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent and was nominated for the Best Female Playback Singer.
Suraiya
Suraiya Jamal Sheikh , popularly known by the mononym Suraiya, was a popular Indian Hindi/Hindustani film actress and playback singer in Bollywood. She was active from 1936 to 1963.
Suvi Suresh
Suvi Suresh is an Indian singer. She was a member of the band S5 launched by the channel SS Music. She shot to fame with the song "Kodana Kodi" from Saroja, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Presently, she is a member of the band Soulsonic.
Suzanne D'Mello, formerly known as Suzie Q, is an Indian playback singer of Bollywood films and other regional films. She also has voiced jingles for television advertisements.
Swarnalatha
Swarnalatha was an Indian playback singer. In a career spanning almost 22 years , she recorded over 7,000 songs in many languages, including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi, and Badaga.
Tanvi Shah
Tanvi Shah is the first Indian woman to win a Grammy. She has sung in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu. In addition, she sings in Spanish, Portuguese, and other Romania languages, as well as Arabic. Her first song was "Fanaa" for the movie Yuva.
Tulsi Kumar
Tulsi Kumar Dua, known professionally as Tulsi Kumar, is a popular Indian playback singer born to Gulshan Kumar and Sudesh Kumari Dua. Kumar has two siblings, Khushali Kumar Dua and Bhushan Kumar Dua.. Kumar has established a successful career in Hindi cinema.
Usha
Usha , known professionally as Singer Usha, is a Telugu playback singer. In a career spanning about 10 years, she has established herself as one of the leading playback singers in the Telugu film industry and has worked with many major music directors.
Usha Mangeshkar
Usha Mangeshkar is an Indian singer who has recorded many Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati and Assamese songs.
Usha Uthup
Usha Uthup is an Indian pop, filmi, jazz, and playback singer who sang songs in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Darling, which she recorded with Rekha Bhardwaj for the film 7 Khoon Maaf, won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2012.
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi is a playback singer from Kerala, India. She is an expert in a rare musical instrument called Gayatriveena. She won special jury mention for her much appreciated work in the movie Celluloid. She was born blind in Vaikom on 7 October 1981 and later on moved to Chennai.
Vandana Srinivasan
Vandana Srinivasan is an Indian playback singer, working mainly as an independent singer and for the South Indian film industry especially kollywood.
Vani Jairam
Vani Jairam , also credited as Vani Jayaram, also fondly called as Meera of modern India, is an Indian singer. She is best known as a playback singer in South Indian cinema. Vani's career started in 1971 and has spanned over four decades. She has done playback for over thousand Indian movies recording over 10,000 songs. In addition, she has recorded thousands of devotionals and private albums and also participated in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad.
Vasundhara Das
Vasundhara Das is an Indian singer, actress, composer, entrepreneur, speaker, songwriter and environmental activist. Vasundhara's films include Hey Ram , Monsoon Wedding , Citizen , Ravana Prabhu , Lankesh Patrike and several others. Vasundhara has worked with composers such as A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar, Pritam and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, to name a few. Vasundhara's current focus is on music composition at her Bangalore based studio called THE ACTIVE. She has also been involved in several independent projects such as Channel V Jammin', BBC's HIV awareness anthem for India 'Har Kadam', Mission Ustaad, Arya, Global Rhythms, Nylon Soundz and most recently, The Shah Hussain Project, a collaborative album with Sufi singer Mir Mukhtiyar Ali. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Tamil for the film Mudhalvan
32Stitches
32Stitches is Mumbai-based electronic musician and DJ. His music has been released on platforms such as Universal Music, Artist Intelligence Agency and Sony.
Alphons Joseph
Alphons Joseph is a music director and playback singer in the Malayalam film industry who got a break as a film music composer after composing for the film Vellithira. Alphons is also noted for singing the famous song "Aaromale" from the film Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, which was composed by A. R. Rahman.
Vedala Hemachandra
Hemachandra Vedala is an Indian playback singer and a music director who works in the Telugu film industry.
Ash King
Ash King is a singer, songwriter and composer of Bengali origin based in London. He made his playback singing debut in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6. He is a relative of prominent Bengali singer Kishore Kumar.
Aaman Trikha
Aman Trikha , also known as Aaman Trikha is an Indian playback singer from Mumbai. He has sung songs in Hindi, English, and other languages, and sang "Achhe din aane waale hain", the Loksabha Election 2014 Anthem of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar Ganguly is an Indian playback singer, actor, music composer. Kumar launched his own music production company, named Kumar Brothers Music . Amit released many music videos on YouTube. He has sung many Bollywood and regional film songs since the 1970s, including 170 Hindi compositions by R.D. Burman, and was actively singing in Indian films from 1970 to 1994. After Burman's death in 1994, citing a lack of quality music composition, Kumar withdrew from playback singing and concentrated on live orchestra shows. In addition to singing in Hindi, has also performed in Bengali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Assamese, Marathi and Konkani. He is the eldest son of singer Kishore Kumar.
Amit Trivedi
Amit Trivedi is an Indian music director, film score composer, singer and lyricist. As a contemporary music director, he is well known for his versatility, his work ranges from angry rock, authentic classical, honey-soaked melodies to novel fusion music. After working as a theatre and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film Aamir, and was noticed for his critically acclaimed work in the Hindi film Dev.D , which earned him several Awards, including the 2010 National Film Awards for Best Music Direction.
Anirudh Ravichander
Anirudh Ravichander is an Indian film composer and singer, who primarily works in Tamil cinema. He was born to veteran actor Ravi Raghavendra. He has also worked in Telugu and Hindi. At 21, he made his debut in the Tamil industry. His debut song, "Why This Kolaveri Di", composed for the 2012 film 3, went viral across the globe, etching more than 198,063,891 views on YouTube as of 17 october 2019. He then went on to compose numerous hits and became one of the popular composers in South India.
Anuj Gurwara
Anuj Gurwara is a Filmfare Award-winning playback singer, master of ceremonies, actor, voice artist, radio jockey and television show host from India.
Anupam Roy
Anupam Roy; born 29 March 1982) is an Indian singer-songwriter from Kolkata, West Bengal. He is best known for his song Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao , which appeared on the soundtrack to the 2010 film Autograph. Since then, he has gone on to compose, write lyrics and sing for many Bengali films. In 2015, he made his Bollywood debut, composing the songs and score for Piku. He was nominated for the 61st Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, and won the 61st Filmfare Award for Best Background Score for Piku. He is a recipient of 64th National Film Award for Best Lyrics for the song Tumi Jaake Bhalobasho.
Anwar
Anwar Hussain , known more by his first name Anwar, is a playback singer who rose to prominence in the Hindi playback industry because of the uncanny resemblance of his voice with that of singer Mohammed Rafi. His most popular song to date are "Dosti imtihan leti hai" from Manmohan Desai directed Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha-starrer Naseeb , and "Aisa bhi dekho waqt" from Mahesh Bhatt directed Aditya Pancholi-starrer Saathi .
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Abhijeet Bhattacharya, better known as Abhijeet, is a Bollywood playback singer born to a Kanpur-based Bengali businessman turned editor Dhirendranath Bhattacharya, and his wife Kamladevi Bhattacharya in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Abhijeet was the youngest among the four sons in the family. He married a fashion designer Sumati Bhattacharya in 1990 and has two sons Dhruv Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Jai Abhijeet Bhattacharya. Abhijeet Bhattacharya has sung 6034 songs in over 1000 films.
Abhijeet Sawant
Abhijeet Sawant is an Indian playback singer, television actor and anchor and the winner of Indian Idol . He was the first runner up of Clinic All Clear – Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar, and finished third in Asian Idol.
Arijit Singh
Arijit Singh is an Indian playback singer. He sings predominantly in Hindi and Bengali, but has also performed in various other Indian languages. Singh is regarded as one of the most versatile and successful singers in the history of Indian music and Hindi cinema.
Ankit Tiwari
Ankit Tiwari is an Indian playback singer, music director, composer. His career began upon meeting Pradeep Sarkar where he got a chance to work on jingles and started composing background music for television programmes. Subsequently, he was offered to compose music for Do Dooni Chaar and Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster , where he started his singing career with the song he composed for the later.
Armaan Malik
Armaan Malik is an Indian singer and an actor. He mainly sings in Hindi films, but has also sung in various other Indian languages. He also sang the title track of the Pakistani film "Jannan". A finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs , Armaan advanced to eighth place with public votes. He is the brother of composer Amaal Mallik previously represented by Universal Music India, and now signed on by T-Series. His first on-screen appearance was in the film Kaccha Limboo in the year 2011.
Babul Supriyo
Babul Supriyo is an Indian playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician.
Babbu Maan
Tejinder "Babbu" Maan, is an Indian singer-songwriter, actor and film producer. Most of his artistic work focuses on Punjabi music and films.
Badshah
Aditya Prateek Singh Sisodia, better known by his stage name Badshah, is an Indian rapper and singer known for his Hindi, Haryanvi, and Punjabi songs. He started his career in 2006 alongside Yo Yo Honey Singh in his band Mafia Mundeer. He split from Honey in 2012 and released his independent Haryanvi song Kar Gayi Chull, which was later adopted into the 2016 Bollywood movie, Kapoor & Sons. His music has been featured in Bollywood soundtracks for films such as 2014 films Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania and Khoobsurat.
Bappi Lahiri
Alokesh "Bappi" Lahiri is an Indian singer, music composer, dancer, disco musician, actor and record producer. He popularized the use of synthesized disco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s and 1990s with filmi soundtracks such as Wardat, Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal, Dance Dance, Commando, Saaheb, Gang Leader, Sailaab and Sharaabi.
Bhimsen Joshi
Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi ; 4 February 1922 – 24 January 2011) was an Indian vocalist from Karnataka, in the Hindustani classical tradition. He is known for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music . Bhimsen Joshi belongs to Kirana gharana tradition of Hindustani Classical Music. Pt. Joshi is noted for his concerts, in fact no other singer in India has given so many concerts as Pt. Joshi. It is also worth mentioning that in 1964, King of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahir Shah, himself invited Pt. Joshi for a concert in Kabul. Between 1964 to 1982 Joshi toured Italy, France, Canada and USA. He was the first musician from India whose concerts were advertised through posters in New York city, USA. Bhimsen Joshi was instrumental in organising the Sawai Gandharva Music Festival annually, as homage to his guru, Pandit Sawai Gandharva.
Bhupen Hazarika
Bhupen Hazarika was an composer, playback singer, music director, lyricist, musician, folk artist, poet and filmmaker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha. His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi. His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, have become popular among the people of Assam, besides West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975. Recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award , Padmashri , and Padmabhushan , Hazarika was awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke Award , Highest award of India for cinema, by the Government of India, and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship , the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's The National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 2019. Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 2019.
Bhupinder Singh
Bhupinder Singh is an Indian musician, chiefly a ghazal singer and also a Bollywood playback singer.
Blaaze
Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman , professionally known as Blaaze , is an Indian playback singer in Indian cinema who specializes in writing and performing rap music. An Indian by birth, born in Chennai, he grew up in Zambia and later did his education in England and in the US.
Bohemia
Roger David , better known by his stage name Bohemia , is a Pakistani American rapper and record producer.
Chetan Sosca
Chetan Soasca is an Indian playback singer and composer who has performed the music for many Kannada films.
Damodar Raao
Damodar Raao is an Indian composer, singer, record producer, and live performer. His music genre is about acoustic folk with some traces of Indian classical music.
Darshan Raval
Darshan Raval ) is an Indian singer, songwriter, composer and actor born in Ahmedabad, India.
Devan Ekambaram
Devan Ekambaram is an Indian American film playback singer, actor and composer. He began his career as a playback singer in Tamil films and later branched out to many other south Indian languages as well like Telugu, Kannada and has sung for over 500 films.
Daler Mehndi
Daler Singh , better known as Daler Mehndi, is an Indian singer, songwriter, author and record producer. He has helped to make Bhangra popular worldwide, as well as Indian pop music independent of Bollywood music. He is best known for his dance songs, voice, turban and long, flowing robes.
Dhananjay Bhattacharya
Dhananjay Bhattacharya was an Indian Bengali singer and composer. He was a versatile Shyama Sangeet singer.
Dhanush
Venkatesh Prabhu , better known by his stage name Dhanush, is an Indian film actor, producer, director, writer, lyricist, screenwriter and playback singer who has predominantly starred in Tamil language films.
Diwakar
Dhivagaran Santhosh is an Indian playback singer and live performer. He is best known for winning season 4 of Airtel Super Singer, a Tamil language musical reality TV show which was telecast from December 2012 to February 2014 on Vijay TV.
Diljit Dosanjh
Diljit Dosanjh is an Indian singer, actor, television presenter and social media celebrity who works in Punjabi and Hindi cinema. He is recognised as one of the leading artists in the Indian music industry. He also acts in Punjabi movies, with many of them being notable hits, including Jatt & Juliet, Jatt & Juliet 2, Punjab 1984, Sardaar Ji, Ambarsariya, Sardaar Ji 2, Super Singh, Soorma, Sajjan Singh Rangroot and Shadaa – which are among the most successful Punjabi movies in history. His first recorded mainstream performance was his solo track and music video Ishq Da Uda Ada from his 2004 album produced by Finetone Cassettes. He made his Bollywood debut with Udta Punjab in 2016 for which he earned the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He mostly works with White Hill Productions. He is also a judge in the reality show Rising Star.
Dwijen Mukhopadhyay
Dwijen Mukhopadhyay was an Indian composer and singer whose musical career spanned six decades. He was an accomplished performer of Rabindrasangeet, Bengali basic songs, Bengali and Hindi film songs. He recorded more than 1500 songs, of which about 800 are songs of Rabindranath Tagore. He also directed music in Bengali feature films and composed music for popular Bengali basic songs. He died on 24 December 2018
G. M. Durrani
Ghulam Mustafa Durrani, often abbreviated as G. M. Durrani was an Indian radio drama artist, playback singer, actor and music director.
G. Venugopal
G Venugopal is an Indian playback singer known for his work in Malayalam films. He started his singing career in the film "Odaruthammaava Aalariyaam". Since then he has sung in more than 300 films; and has over 500 private albums to his credit. The many awards he has won include the coveted Best Playback Singer which he won thrice, the Film Critics award and the Kerala Kaumudi Gallop Poll award . He won The Kerala State award for Best Playback singer third time for the song "aadedee..aadaadedee" from the film "Ullam".Venugopal has composed two songs, one for the album-‘Mizhiyariyathe’.
Gajendra Verma
Gajendra Verma is an Indian singer, composer, lyricist and sound recordist . He came under the spotlight when he claimed that his song, titled "Emptiness", also known as "Tune Mere Jaana", which he had composed seven-and-a-half years before, leaked on the internet with a fake sympathetic story of a dying IIT student named Rohan Rathore. The song was viewed over 6 million times on YouTube. His 2018 song, Tera Ghata, has 314+ million Youtube views.
Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao
Ghantasala Venkateswararao was an Indian film composer, Playback Singer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and Kannada cinema and also in Tamil, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi language films. In 1970, he received the Padma Shri award, India's fourth highest civilian award for his contribution to Indian cinema. According to The Hindu and The Indian Express, Ghantasala was "Such a divine talent and with his songs he could move the hearts of the people." "Ghantasala's blending of classical improvisations to the art of light music combined with his virtuosity and sensitivity puts him a class apart, above all others in the field of playback singing"." "Gifted with what Indian Film Historian V. A. K. Ranga Rao called "the most majestic voice", Ghantasala helped Telugu film music develop its own distinct character which remains unparalleled". He is referred to as the "Gaana Gandharva" for his mesmerising voice and musical skills.
Gurdas Maan
Gurdas Maan is an Indian singer, songwriter, choreographer and actor mainly associated with Punjabi language music and films. He is considered one of the most notable figures in Punjabi music. He gained national attention in 1980 with the song "Dil Da Mamla Hai". Since then, he has gone on to record over 34 albums and has written over 305 songs. In 2013 he announced the launch of his YouTube channel to stay connected with his fans via video blogs and old as well as new music videos. In 2015 he performed on the song "Ki Banu Dunia Da" with Diljit Dosanjh in MTV Coke studio India that was aired in season 4 episode 5 on MTV India.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan is a convicted rapist and murderer. He is the head of the religious cult Dera Sacha Sauda since 1990.
Gurshabad
Gurshabad Singh Kular , credited as Gurshabad Singh or simply Gurshabad, is an Indian film actor and playback singer known for his work predominantly in Punjabi cinema and music industry. Born in Rampur Bhootwind village in Amritsar district of Punjab, Gurshabad always aspired to become a playback singer, and started learning and performing music at an early age of ten years. He began his musical journey with Sikh religious music, and along the way, he met with his love for folk music. After completing his junior high school from a local school, he attended Khalsa College, Amritsar for his undergraduate and went on to study at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar where he completed his Master of Arts program in Music.
Guru Randhawa
Gursharanjot Singh Randhawa is an Indian singer, songwriter and music composer associated with Punjabi, Bhangra, Indi-pop and Bollywood music. He is known for songs like "Lahore", "Patola", "High Rated Gabru", "Daaru Wargi", "Raat Kamal Hai", "Suit", "Ban Ja Rani", "Made in India", "Ishare Tere", "Tere Te", "Fashion", "Downtown" and "Slowly Slowly". Guru Randhawa's debut single was "Same girl" in collaboration with Arjun.
Happy Raikoti
Happy Raikoti is an Indian singer and lyricist. He has written lyrics for many punjabi singers. He wrote the song "Jaan" in 2014. His album "7 Knaalan" was released in 2015. Recently he has appeared in the movie Teshan.
Haricharan
Haricharan Seshadri, known and credited mononymously as Haricharan , is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, playback singer, and musician who predominantly works in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu language
Hariharan
Hariharan is an Indian playback and ghazal singer, whose songs have been featured mainly in Tamil and Hindi. Also he sang notable songs in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Bhojpuri films. He is an established ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner.
Hemanta Mukherjee
Hemanta Mukherjee also known as Hemant Kumar ; was an Indian music director and singer who sang in Bengali, Hindi and other Indian languages. He was an artist of Rabindra Sangeet. He won two National awards for the category best male playback singer.
Himesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya is an Indian actor, music director, lyricist, composer, producer, singer, screenwriter and film distributor who predominantly works in Bollywood.
Jagjit Singh
Jagjit Singh, born Jagmohan Singh Dhiman , popularly known as "The Ghazal King" or "King of Ghazals", was an Indian Ghazal singer, composer and musician. He sang in numerous languages and is credited for the revival and popularity of ghazal, an Indian classical art form, by choosing poetry that was relevant to the masses and composing them in a way that laid more emphasis on the meaning of words and melody evoked by them. In terms of Indian Classical music, his style of composing and Gayaki is considered as Bol-pradhan, one that lays emphasis on words. He highlighted this in his music for films such as Prem Geet , Arth , and Saath Saath , and TV serials Mirza Ghalib and Kahkashan . Singh is considered to be the most successful ghazal singer and composer of all time in terms of critical acclaim and commercial success. With a career spanning five decades and many albums, the range and breadth of his work has been regarded as genre-defining.
Jassie Gift
Jassie Gift is an Indian film music composer and playback singer from Thiruvananthapuram, India. He composes songs for Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil films. He became famous after his song "Lajjavathiye" in the film 4 the people became a hit. Jassie won the Best Music Director award at The Bangalore Times Film Awards 2011.
Javed Ali
Javed Ali is an Indian playback singer who predominantly sings in Hindi language Bollywood films. He has also sung in various regional languages like Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Jayachandran
Paliyath Jayachandrakuttan, popularly known as P. Jayachandran, is an Indian playback singer and classical musician from Kerala. Jayachandran is best known for his captivating voice which gave him the title Bhava Gayakan by the music fraternity of South India.
Jayanta Hazarika
Jayanta Hazarika was an Assamese Indian singer and composer. He wrote lyrics for a few songs and composed music for several movies. In his short 34 years life span he created many legendary songs that are still widely popular today in Assam.
Jeet Gannguli
This article contains Bengali text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.
Joi Barua
Joi Barua is an Indian singer and music composer. Born in Digboi, Assam, he started his career by singing advertising jingles and later did playback singing for Hindi, Assamese and Telugu films. He is also the lead vocalist of the band Joi. Barua has a mixed musical style incorporating elements of rock, soul, jazz, folk and world music.
Jubin Nautiyal
Jubin Nautiyal is an Indian singer, performer, music programmer, composer, music director, music arranger, indi-pop and playback singer. Jubin was awarded with Upcoming Male Vocalist of the Year at 8th Mirchi Music Awards, 2016 for his song "Zindagi Kuch Toh Bata " from Bajrangi Bhaijaan and his other achievement is the Rising Musical Star Award received at Zee Business Awards. Early in his career, he has sung many songs and several hit songs for Hindi films. He has also recorded songs for films in various Indian languages.
Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher is an Indian eminent playback singer and music composer, he sang songs with a music style influenced by Indian folk music and Sufi music. He was inspired by the classical musician Pandit Kumar Gandharva, Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, and the Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, dancer, film director, screenwriter, producer, playback singer, lyricist and politician who works primarily in Tamil cinema and has also worked in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Bengali films. Haasan has won awards including three National Film Awards for Best Actor and nineteen Filmfare Awards. His production company, Raaj Kamal Films International, has produced several of his films. He is completing his 59th year on August 12, 2019 and is entering his 60th year in cinema career.
Karthik
Karthik is an Indian playback singer. Karthik started his professional career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung in multiple languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Bengali and Hindi. The Amrita Film Awards honoured Karthik for his versatility in the industry which gave him opportunity to sing a variety of songs.
Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar pronunciation was an Indian playback singer, actor, music director, lyricist, writer, director, producer and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the most popular singers of Indian film industry and from soft numbers to peppy tracks to romantic moods, Kumar sang in different genres but some of his rare compositions which were considered classics were lost in time. According to Ashok Kumar, Kumar's success lies in the fact that his voice used to hit the microphone straight at its most sensitive point.
KK
Krishnakumar Kunnath is an Indian singer. He is a prominent singer in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali and Gujarati languages films. KK is noted for his clear and soothing voice; broad vocal range and noteplay. He is considered as one of the most versatile singers of India.
K. J. Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian musician and playback singer. Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional and cinematic songs. He has recorded more than Eighty Thousand songs in a number of Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Odia as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, during a career spanning more than five decades. Often called as Gaanagandharvan , he is regarded as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time.
Krishna Beura
Krishna Beura is an Indian playback singer who has sung songs in commercial Hindi and Odia cinema. Mostly known for his hit songs "Maula Mere" from the film Chak De India, "Main Jahan Rahoon" from the film Namaste London, "Rabba" and "Soniyo from the Heart" . He can sing in 22 languages including his mother tongue Odia.
Krishna Iyer
, Krishna Iyer is a Tamil cinema "Kollywood" playback singer from Chennai, India. A singer/performer who has got the innate ability to enthrall the audience and make them engaged throughout the show. Performs Tamil, Hindi and Telugu songs. His rendition of "En Uchi Mandaila" from the Illayathalapathi film Vettaikaran, composed by Vijay Antony and starring Vijay, topped the music charts for many weeks in 2009. His first entry into the Tamil music industry was through the movie Kanthaswamy, starring Chiyaan Vikram. Krishna rendered the rap portion of the song "En Peru Meenakumari," scored by noted music director Devi Sri Prasad. He has several star night shows and TV programs to his credit. Krishna Iyer has performed in several live shows across the globe. His most recent singing credits include Harris Jayaraj's "Google Google" from Thuppakki, which he sang along with actor Vijay. A recent song, "Yaelae Yaelae Dosthu Da" for Harris Jayaraj, from the movie Endrendrum Punnagai, topped the iTunes India chart for some time. He has worked with music directors Vijay Antony, Harris Jayaraj, Gv Prakash, Prasan Praveen Shyam, Selvanagesh, Shankar Mahadevan, Drummer Sivamani, Gopi Sundar, and Devi Sri Prasad.
K. L. Saigal
Kundan Lal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal , was an Indian singer and actor who is considered the first superstar of the Hindi film industry, which was centred in Kolkata during Saigal's time, but is currently centred in Mumbai. Saigal's unique voice quality which was a mixture of baritone and soft tenor was the benchmark for most of the singers who followed him. In fact it remains the gold standard even today shining through very early and practically primitive recording technology.
Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya , better known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer who mainly sings for Hindi and Bengali films.
Kunal Ganjawala
Kunal Ganjawala is an Indian playback singer whose songs are mostly featured in Hindi and Kannada films. He has also sung in Marathi, Bengali and other official languages of India. Kunal began his career by singing jingles. He came to limelight in Hindi with the song "Bheege Honth Tere" from the film Murder in 2004. It was his first biggest hit. The song earned him Zee Cine Award as Best Playback Singer in 2005. He came to limelight in Kannada with the song "Neene Neene" from the film Akash in 2005.
M. G. Sreekumar
M. G. Sreekumar is an Indian singer, music director, music producer, television presenter and film producer, who works predominantly in Malayalam films and television. He has sung more than 4000 songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages. He owns a music company named KMG Musics and also Sareegama School of Music in Trivandrum. Sreekumar has won several awards, including two National Film Awards, three Kerala State Film Awards and a Filmfare Awards South.
Madhu Balakrishnan
Madhu Balakrishnan is an Indian playback singer who sings in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Tulu.
Malaysia Vasudevan
Vasudevan , known as Malaysia Vasudevan, was a Malaysian Tamil playback singer and actor in the Tamil film industry.
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay
Manabendra Mukhopadhyay was an Indian singer and music composer. Manabendra was born in Kolkata on 11 August 1931. His father’s name was Atulchandra Mukhopadhay. It is considered that during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s the Bengali modern songs reached its peak of excellence and that period is usually called the "Golden age of Bengali Adhunik Songs". At that time Bengal had a unique mix of singers which inspired composers and lyricists to create innumerable treasure of creative music. Each singer had his own inimitable style and compositions were made to match their individual ability. Bengali non-film modern songs were in fact was as popular, if not more, than film songs which also reached a level of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s.
Manikka Vinayagam
Manikka Vinayagam is a Tamil playback singer and actor. He has sung for all the South Indian language films and acted in several Tamil feature films as a character artist. He is the son of the dancer Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah Pillai. His uncle and music guru was the singer C. S. Jayaraman.
Manna Dey
Prabodh Chandra Dey , known by his stage name Manna Dey, was an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer, music director, musician and Indian classical vocalist. He is considered one of the most versatile and celebrated vocalists of the Hindi film industry. He was one of the playback singers credited with the success of Indian classical music in Hindi commercial movies. He debuted in the film Tamanna in 1942. After the song "Upar Gagan Bishal" composed by S D Burman he saw success and went on to record more than 4,000 songs till 2013. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1971, the Padma Bhushan in 2005 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2007.
Mano
Nagoor Babu, known by his stage name Mano, is an Indian playback singer, voice-over artist, actor, producer, television anchor and music composer. He is a recipient of several awards such as the Nandi Awards from the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Kalaimamani award from the Government of Tamil Nadu.
Master Saleem
Master Saleem , sometimes referred as Saleem Shahzada , is an Indian singer from Punjab, known for his work as a devotional singer & playback singer in Bollywood films, like Heyy Babyy , Dostana and Love Aaj Kal . He has also released private albums, of Punjabi Music, Religious and Sufi music.
Meet Bros
Meet Bros is a music director duo from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. The duo consists of Manmeet Singh and Harmeet Singh. They were formerly known as Meet Bros Anjjan with longtime collaborator Anjjan Bhattacharya.
Mika Singh
Mika Singh is an Indian playback singer and live performer. Amongst a wide catalogue of songs, the prominent ones are "Bas Ek King" , "Mauja Hi Mauja" , "Ibn-e-Batuta" , and "Dhanno" . Mika began his career at an early age and has released several solo albums. He also acted on various reality shows, becoming a modest star in the country. Mika Singh is younger brother of Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi. His song Sawan Main Lag Gayi Aag was remixed by U.S based singer Pinky Paras.
Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi was an Indian playback singer. He is considered as one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Rafi was notable for his voice, versatility and range; his songs were varied from fast peppy numbers to patriotic songs, sad numbers to highly romantic songs, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans to classical songs. He was known for his ability to mould his voice to the persona and style of an actor, lip-syncing the song on screen in the movie. He received six Filmfare Awards and one National Film Award. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. In 2001, Rafi was honoured with the "Best Singer of the Millennium" title by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine. In 2013, Rafi was voted for the Greatest Voice in Hindi Cinema in the CNN-IBN's poll.
Mohammed Aziz
Mohammed Aziz was an Indian playback singer in the Bollywood, Bengali and Odia film industries. He was one of the most popular singers in Hindi film industry in mid and late 1980s and early 1990s.
Mohammed Irfan
Mohammed Irfan is an Indian playback singer who sings predominantly in Hindi. He has also sung in Tamil, Odia, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi.
Mohan Rathore
India's Raw Star is an Indian singing competition series created by Gajendra Singh of Saibaba Telefilms which began airing on Star Plus from 24 August 2014. It was hosted by model-actress and Bigg Boss 7 winner Gauahar Khan and mentored by singer-rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh. Rituraj Mohanty won the first season on 30 November 2014 with Darshan Raval and Mohit Gaur finishing second and third respectively. The other contestants were Sagar Bhatia, Akasa Singh, pardeep singh sran etc. Mohan Rathore, winner of a Bhojpuri singing competition 'Sur Sangram' was also one of the contestants. Arjun Kapoor and Himesh Reshammiya made guest appearances in the show. India's Raw Star' witnessed singers like Kailash Kher, Mohit Chauhan and Shaan perform in the final episode with finalists Rituraj, Mohit and Darshan. The finalists sang the final face off song composed by Sachin and Jigar on the occasion, while Arjun Kapoor, promoted his film Tevar.
Mukesh
Mukesh Chand Mathur , better known mononymously as Mukesh, was an Indian playback singer. Mukesh is considered to be one of the most popular and acclaimed playback singers of the Hindi film industry. Amongst the numerous nominations and awards he won, his song "Kai Baar Yuhi Dekha Hai" from the film Rajnigandha won him the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer.
Sreerama Chandra Mynampati
Sreerama Chandra Mynampati is a professional singer, Indian Idol 5 winner from Hyderabad who debuted his playback career in the Telugu film industry. Sreeram won the fifth season of music reality show Indian Idol 5 and was awarded by one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan. In 2013, he made his Telugu cinema acting debut with the film Sri Jagadguru Aadi Sankara. He has also played the lead in Prema Geema Jantha Nai. He acted with Salman Khan for an advertisement with Suzuki.
Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, most known for his work for Bollywood, Tollywood, & Kollywood movies. He was also part of the Indipop band Silk Route. Chauhan is a two-time recipient of the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer and three times Zee Cine Award For Best Male Playback Singer. He has recorded songs for film music and albums in various Indian languages and has established himself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema.
Naresh Iyer
Naresh Iyer is a playback singer from Mumbai, India, born in a Tamil speaking family from Mumbai. He speaks fluent Tamil, Hindi and Marathi while he understands Malayalam. Naresh Iyer has rendered film songs in several Indian languages and has several chart hits to his credit. His rendition of "Roobaroo" from the movie Rang De Basanti composed by A. R. Rahman topped the music charts for many weeks in 2006 and won him the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer. He also won the Filmfare award in the R.D. Burman Musical Talent category. He is one of the few playback singers to have won both a Filmfare Award and a National Award in his professional debut singing year.
Najim Arshad
Najim Arshad is an Indian playback singer and music director, working in the Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi film industries. In 2007, he won the reality show Idea Star Singer. He studied in Swathi Thirunal College of Music and holds graduation and post-graduation degree in Music. He was the Rank Holder of University of Kerala in Bachelor Of Performing Arts. He also won the Kalaprathibha title 13 times at the district and sub-district levels during his early school days.
Nitin Mukesh
Nitin Mukesh Mathur is an Indian playback singer known for his work as a playback singer in Hindi films as well as Bhajans. He has toured internationally, including to the United States in 1993, and a world tour in 2006 with his show Kal Ki Yaadein as a tribute to his father.
Navin Prabhakar
Navin Prabhakar is an Indian stand-up comedian, singer, actor and a mimicry artist. He is most known for his Pehchan Kaun act on The Great Indian Laughter Challenge . Subsequently, he hosted a mimicry and stand-up show Hello Kaun? Pehchaan Kaun .
Neeraj Shridhar
Neeraj Shridhar is an Indian film composer and singer-songwriter who was the lead vocalist of Indian pop and rock group Bombay Vikings. Bombay Vikings became popular with remix hits like "Kya Soorat Hai", "Woh Chali" and "Chod Do Anchal."
NTR Jr.
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Jr. , also known as Jr. N.T.R or Tarak, is an Indian film actor, Kuchipudi dancer, playback singer and television personality known for his works in Telugu cinema. He is the grandson of Telugu actor N. T. Rama Rao, who was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and who was commonly referred to as "NTR". In 1996, he starred as a child artist in Ramayanam, which won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film for that year. His debut as an adult was in 2000 with the film Ninnu Choodalani. In his film career spanning 18 years, Rao has worked in 28 films. He has received two state Nandi Awards, two Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Awards and four CineMAA Awards.
P. B. Sreenivas
Prathivadi Bhayankara Sreenivas was a veteran playback singer from India. He was born in Gollaprolu village in East Godavri District of Andhra Pradesh. He had sung around 3000 songs in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Tulu and Konkani. He was known for his playback singing in the Telugu, Tamil film industries and mainly in Kannada industry. He died on 14 April 2013 at the age of 82 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Pankaj Mullick
Pankaj Mullick, also known as Pankaj Kumar Mullick , was a popular Bengali Indian music composer and playback singer, who was a pioneer of film music in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema at the advent of playback singing, as well as an early exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.
Pankaj Udhas
Pankaj Udhas is a ghazal singer, hailing from Gujarat in India. He started his career with a release of a ghazal album titled Aahat in 1980 and subsequently recorded many hits like Mukarar in 1981, Tarrannum in 1982, Mehfil in 1983, Pankaj Udhas Live at Royal Albert Hall in 1984, Nayaab in 1985 and Aafreen in 1986. After his success as a ghazal singer, he was invited to appear and sing for a film by Mahesh Bhatt, Naam. Udhas rose to further fame for singing in the 1986 film Naam, in which his song "Chitthi Aayee Hai" became an instant hit. He did playback singing for many Hindi films after that. Albums and live concerts around the globe brought him fame as a singer. In 2006, Pankaj Udhas was awarded the famous Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
Papon
Angarag Mahanta, known by his stagename Papon, is an Indian playback singer from Assam. Papon also worked as singer-songwriter and music director in Assamese films. Papon known for his voice range, he performed with his folk & classical mixed up voice. He is the lead singer and founder of the folk-fusion band called Papon and The East India Company.
Pradip Somasundaran
Pradip Somasundaran , is an Indian playback singer, who sang around 100 songs in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi languages. He is also a college principal by profession.
Pritam
Pritam Chakraborty , also known mononymously as Pritam, is an Indian music composer, instrumentalist, electronic guitar player, singer for Bollywood films. He is regarded as a talented music director due to his versatility and range of music in various Indian films.
Puneeth Rajkumar
Puneeth Rajkumar is an Indian film actor, playback singer, and producer who works primarily in Kannada cinema. He has been a lead actor in 27 films; as a child he appeared in films featuring his father Rajkumar. His performances in Vasantha Geetha , Bhagyavantha , Chalisuva Modagalu , Eradu Nakshatragalu and Bettada Hoovu were praised. He won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist for his role of Ramu in Bettada Hoovu. Puneeth's first lead role was in 2002's Appu .
Raaj J. Konwar
Raaj J Konwar is an Indian singer and composer from North Lakhimpur, Assam. His songs have been featured in Bollywood and Assamese films.
Rajesh Krishnan
Rajesh Krishnan is an Indian melody playback singer and film actor. Although he is popularly known for his works in Kannada films, he has sung more than 5000 songs in Kannada for over 1200 films and 500 songs in Telugu and 500 songs in Tamil, Hindi and many other regional 17 languages film songs. Making his mainstream debut in the film Gauri Ganesha , he has sung for many devotional albums, theme albums and commercials in a career spanning over almost two decades.
Rajkumar
Singanalluru Puttaswamy Mutturaju , known mononymously by his stage name Rajkumar was an Indian playback singer and film actor in the Kannada cinema. Widely acclaimed as one of the finest actors in the history of Indian cinema, he is considered a cultural icon and holds a matinée idol status in the Kannada diaspora, among whom he is popularly adulated as Nata Saarvabhouma , Bangarada Manushya , Vara Nata and Rajanna . He was honoured by Padma Bhushan Award in 1983.
L. V. Revanth
Lolla Venkata Revanth Kumar Sharma, known as L. V. Revanth is an Indian playback singer, known for his songs in Telugu films. He is the winner of Indian Idol season 9 in 2017. He also won Rock Star, Spicy Singer on Maa TV and Superstar of the South. He has sung around 200 songs for Telugu and Kannada films. One of his popular songs is 'Manohari' from the hit film Baahubali: The Beginning, for which he received IIFA Utsavam and MAA Music Award nominations for best male playback singer.
Remo Fernandes
Luís Remo de Maria Bernardo Fernandes is an Indian singer, with naturalized Portuguese citizenship. Known as a pioneer of Indian pop music, he performs pop/rock/Indian fusion and is also a film playback singer. His musical work is a fusion of many different cultures and styles that he has been exposed to as a child in Goa and in his later travels around the world. Such influences include Goan and Portuguese music, Sega music , African music, Latin music , the music of erstwhile European communist states, those of the dance halls from Jamaica and Soca .
Rupam Islam
Rupam Islam is a Kolkata-based Indian playback singer in Bengali and Hindi films and has served as music director of many Bengali films. His is also lead vocalist of the band Fossils.
R. D. Burman
Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian music director. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Burman composed musical scores for 331 films. Burman did major work with Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar and scored many of the songs that made these singers famous. He has also scored many songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Nicknamed Pancham, he was the only son of the composer Sachin Dev Burman.
S. D. Burman
Sachin Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer. A member of the Tripura royal family, he started his career with Bengali films in 1937. Later he began composing for Hindi movies, and became one of the most successful and influential Bollywood film music composers. S D Burman composed music for over 100 movies, including Hindi and Bengali films. Apart from being a versatile composer, he also sang songs in light semi-classical and folk style of Bengal. His son Rahul Dev Burman was also a celebrated music composer for Bollywood films.
Silambarasan
Silambarasan "Simbu" Thesingu Rajendar , also credited as S. T. R. is an Indian film actor, director, writer, music composer, dancer, lyricist and playback singer in the Tamil film industry. He began his career by playing roles as a child artist in films directed by his father T. Rajendar, before his first lead role in Kadhal Azhivathillai , under his father's direction and produced by his mother Usha.
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam mostly referred to as S. P. B. or Balu is an Indian playback singer, music director, actor, dubbing artist and film producer who works predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam. He has recorded over 40,000 songs in 16 Indian languages. He has garnered six National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer for his works in four different languages; Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi; twenty five Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards for his works towards Telugu cinema, numerous other state awards from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. In addition, he garnered the Bollywood Filmfare Award, and six Filmfare Awards South.
S. P. B. Charan
Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam Charan , popularly known as S. P. B. Charan, or Charan is an Indian film playback singer, actor and producer known for his works primarily in Tamil cinema.
Saandip
Saandip is an Indian singer and actor. He has given playback to Tollywood and Bollywood movies. He has acted in "Premayanamaha" and "Inkosaari". He was the first South Indian to participate in the Popular TV Show ZEE SAREGAMAPA anchored by Shaan in 2003 and won many accolades from the musical geniuses of Bollywood.
Sachin Warrier
Sachin Warrier is a playback singer and composer in the Malayalam cinema industry from Kerala. He became notable with the song "Muthuchippi Poloru" from the film Thattathin Marayathu. He made his debut with the movie Malarvaadi Arts Club. He was working as a software engineer in Tata Consultancy Services in Kochi. Later he resigned from the job to concentrate more on music. His latest work is as a composer for the movie Aanandam .
Salman Khan
Salman Khan ; born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan; 27 December 1965) is an Indian film actor, producer, occasional singer and television personality. In a film career spanning over thirty years, Khan has received numerous awards, including two National Film Awards as a film producer, and two Filmfare Awards for acting. He has a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide, and is cited in the media as one of the most commercially successful actors of both world and Indian cinema. According to the Forbes 2018 list of Top-Paid 100 Celebrity Entertainers in world, Khan was the highest ranked Indian with 82nd rank with earnings of $37.7 million. He is also known as the host of the reality show, Bigg Boss since 2010.
Sandeep Khurana
Sandeep Khurana is a US based music composer, record producer, singer, and filmmaker. originally from India.
Shaan
Shantanu Mukherjee , known as Shaan, is an Indian playback singer active in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada films and a television host. He hosted the shows Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs, Star Voice of India and STAR Voice of India 2. In Music Ka Maha Muqabla, his team, Shaan's Strikers, finished as the runners up to Shankar Mahadevan's team. He has also sung many Nepali and Pakistani songs.
Shahid Mallya
Shahid Mallya is an Indian playback singer who has sung in various films. He prominently sings Hindi and Punjabi songs
Shailender Singh
Shailender Singh is an Indian ghazal singer, playback singer and actor. He sang several Hindi and a few Marathi songs during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Shankar Mahadevan
Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy composing trio team for Indian films.
Shyamal Mitra
Shyamal Mitra was an Indian versatile playback singer along with Hemanta Mukherjee and Manna Dey. Mitra also had worked in many Hindi and Bengali films as music director and film producer. He was the most notable musician of the golden era of Bengali music industry. His baritone voice reflected a range of emotions. Beside recording a huge number of popular Bengali basic songs, he also worked as a playback singer in more than a hundred Bengali movies and directed music in more than fifty Bengali films. He also sang in various other Indian languages, like Hindi, Assamese and Oriya.
Sid Sriram
Sid Sriram is an Indian-American music producer, playback singer, and songwriter. He is an R&B songwriter, singer and performer, and works in the Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam film industries. He regularly collaborates with Bharata Natyam dancers, his sister Pallavi Sriram, and music director A. R. Rahman.
Sidhu Moose Wala
Sidhu Moose Wala is an Indian singer, lyricist and actor associated with Punjabi music and Punjabi cinema. He started his career with writing the lyrics of the song "License" sung by Ninja, and began his singing career on a duet song titled "G Wagon". Moose Wala is also famous for his rivalry with Karan Aujla, both have been replying each other through their songs.
Suraj Jagan
Suraj Jagan is an Indian playback singer of Malayali origin. He is noted for the song Give Me Some Sunshine from the award-winning movie 3 Idiots. The song received the "Best Emerging Male Performer" award in the Max Stardust Award. Jagan's singing career began in 1990, and has included both solo work and as front man for the rock band Dream Out Loud. He has also worked in advertising jingle campaigns, Bollywood playback singing, acting in theatre productions and an acting role in the Bollywood film Rock On!! & "Hunterrr".
Soham Chakraborty
Soham Chakrabarty is a playback singer who has sung many songs for Bollywood movies as well as for Bengali movies. He was declared the winner of Zee's "Sa-re-ga-ma" in 2000 . Till now his big hit is "In dino" song from the movie Life In A... Metro.
Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer, live performer, composer, host, and actor. He sings predominantly in Hindi and Kannada language films. He has also sung in English, Bengali, Manipuri, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Tulu, Assamese, Odia, Nepali, Maithili, Malayalam and various Indian languages. Nigam has also released Indian pop albums and acted in a number of films. He has been one of the highest paid Indian singers. He is often regarded as a "Modern Rafi" and is now considered as one of the most versatile singers of the Hindi film industry. He is also regarded as the "Lord of Chords".
Sriram Parthasarathy
Contents 1 About 2 Sriram's Lineage and Learning 3 Sriram Parthasarathy – a versatile musician 4 Discography 5 Sriram's Awards, Achievements and Titles 6 References
Sukhwinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh is an internationally acclaimed Indian Bollywood playback singer. Singh is famous internationally for singing "Jai Ho" from the film Slumdog Millionaire which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. His rendition for the 2014 released film Haider fetched him the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer.
Sundar Narayana Rao
Sundar Narayana Rao is an Indian singer. He mainly sings in the Tamil and Telugu languages.
Suresh Wadkar
Suresh Ishwar Wadkar is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films. He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films, Odia albums and bhajans and in Konkani films.
Talat Mahmood
Talat Mahmood was an Indian playback singer who is considered as one of the greatest male Indian non-classical and semi-classical singers. Although he tried his luck as a film actor, he did not succeed a great deal in acting.
Tochi Raina
Tochi Raina is an Indian singer, Composer and Philosopher, best known as a playback singer in Hindi films. His most notable works include the songs Kabira for the movie "Yeh jawani Hai deeewani", "Iktara" from "Wake up Sid", Ishq Waale Chor Hain for the Hindi movie Kya yahi sach hai with Vishal Khurana, Saibo for the Hindi movie Shor in the City a duet with Shreya Ghosal, Maldar Ki Jeb for the movie Bhindi Baazaar Inc. and Aali Re for the movie No One Killed Jessica. He recorded a music album 'Tochinaamah' consisting 3 song - Saaiyaan, Jamoora and Akela
Thomson Andrews
Thomson Andrews is a multi-lingual Indian playback singer, performer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He is currently featured on the Amazon Prime original music show The Remix as one of the newer contemporary Indian playback singers and a live performer. Thomson has been certified by Trinity College of Music, London as a performing vocalist. He trained briefly in Hindustani classical singing at the Gwalior Gharana.
T. M. Soundararajan
Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan , popularly known as TMS, was an Indian Carnatic musician and a playback singer in Tamil cinema for over six and a half decades. He lent his voice to actors and thespians in the South Indian film industry such as M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan, N. T. Rama Rao, Gemini Ganesan, S. S. Rajendran, Jaishankar, Ravichandar, AVM Rajan, Muthuraman, Nagesh, Siva Kumar, Kantha Rao, Rajkumar,Prem Nazir and A. Nageswara Rao. He also gave his voice to many new generation actors like Kamalahasan, Rajanikanth, Vijayakanth, Satyaraj, Rajesh, Prabhu, and Vijaya Kumar, in addition to other known and unknown heroes and supporting actors like M.R. Radha, K R Ramaswami, T. Rajendar, V.K. Ramaswami, Thengai Sreenivasan, M.N. Nambiar, Thangavelu, Y.G. Mahendran, R.S. Manohar, S.V. Ashokan, Ranjan, Narasimha Bharathi, Sahasra Namam, T S Balayya, Jagayya, Nagayya, Sreenath, Shankar etc. He sang over 10,138 songs from 3162 films, including devotional, semi-classical, Carnatic, classical and light music songs. He gave classical concerts starting in 1945.
Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Bollywood movies of Hindi language. He has also sung in various other languages including Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Bengali. He has won 4 National Film Awards (of which 3 as a singer, for 2 songs in 2001, 1 each in 2002 and 2004 along with 1 as a producer in 2005) and 5 Filmfare Awards with 20 nominations among many others. He had to struggle a lot even after his debut in 1980 in Bollywood playback. He got to sing with legends Mohammed Rafi in his Bollywood Playback debut in movie Unees-Bees in 1980 and also with Kishore Kumar in the 1980s. He finally made his mark in 1988 movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla, his song "Papa Kehte Hain" was his notable performance which earned him his first Filmfare Award in the 1980s and he established himself in Bollywood Playback Singing. He is the only male singer in the history of the Filmfare Awards to have won in over three decades .
Unni Menon
Unni Menon is an Indian film playback singer. He has sung over 3000 songs in South Indian languages like Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. In the early part of his career, he spent many years as a low-profile playback singer. The turning point in his career came when he sang the song "Pudhu Vellai Mazhai" from Mani Ratnam's award-winning 1992 Tamil film Roja, composed by A. R. Rahman. He has frequently associated with A. R. Rahman, lending his voice to nearly 25 popular songs from films like Karuththamma and Minsaara Kanavu .
Vijay Yesudas
Vijay Yesudas is an Indian film playback singer and occasional actor. He has sung over 300 film songs.
Joseph Vijay
C. Joseph Vijay is an Indian film actor and playback singer who works in Tamil cinema. He is one of the highest paid actors in the industry, and is referred to by fans and media as Thalapathy .
Vijay Prakash
Vijay Prakash is an Indian singer and music composer. He has given his voice for Hindi films such as Blue, Yuvvraaj, Swades, Kaal, Lakshya, Matrubhoomi, Tere Naam, Cheeni Kum, Raavan and Force. He has also performed in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi movies. He is one of the judges for the Kannada reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kannada and has also performed shows with Zakir Hussain.He won the Karnataka Government's 'Best Playback Singer' award for the year 2016 for the song 'Nammooralli Chaligaladalli' from the film Beautiful Manasugalu.
Vineeth Sreenivasan
Vineeth Sreenivasan is an Indian playback singer, actor, Film Director, screenwriter, producer, lyricist, Creative Director and dubbing artist. He works in Malayalam cinema. Vineeth is son of the actor-screenwriter Sreenivasan.
Vinod Rathod
Vinod Rathod is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Bollywood films. Rathod is the son of late classical musician, Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod
Yo Yo Honey Singh
Hirdesh Singh , known by this professional name, Yo Yo Honey Singh or Honey Singh, is an Indian music director, songwriter, Indi-pop singer, music producer and film actor. He started as a session and recording artist, and became a bhangra music producer. He has also begun to produce music for Bollywood films.
Zubeen Garg
Zubeen Garg is an Indian playback singer, music director, composer, songwriter, music producer, film director, film producer, actor and philanthropist. His contributions are mostly attributed in Assamese, Bengali and Bollywood films and music. Besides, his songs in Assamese, Garg has sung many songs in other languages and dialects, including Bishnupriya Manipuri, Bodo, English, Goalparia, Kannada, Karbi, Khasi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Tiwa. He is also an instrumentalist and plays dhol, guitar, mandolin, keyboard and various percussion instruments.
