Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik is an Indian playback singer. She is noted in Hindi cinema with a career spanning over three decades. She is a record seventime winner from a record ofnominations of the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, a twotime recipient of the National Film Award as well as several other music awards amp honours listed below. Further, as many asof her tracks feature in BBCs TopBollywood Soundtracks of all time review.

Alka Yagnik was born in Kolkata onMarch 1966, to Gujarati Hindu Parents. Her mother Shubha Yagnik was a singer of Indian classical music. She did her schooling from Modern High School for Girls. In 1972 at the age of six, she started singing for Akashvani , Calcutta. At age 10, her mother brought her to Mumbai as a child singer. She was advised to wait until her voice matured, but her mother remained determined. On a subsequent visit, Alka got a letter of introduction to Raj Kapoor from his Kolkata distributor. Kapoor heard the girl and sent her with a letter to noted music director Laxmikant. Impressed, Laxmikant gave her two alternatives an immediate start as a dubbing artist or a later break as a singer Shubha chose the latter for her daughter.

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