Alka Yagnik 10 Personal Facts, Biography, Wiki
Indian playback singerBorn: March 20, 1966 (age 54 years), Kolkata, IndiaSpouse: Neeraj Kapoor (m. 1989)Children: Syesha KapoorAwards: National Film Award for Best Female Playback SingerBIRTHDAY 20 March, 1966 (Sunday)BIRTH PLACE Kolkata , West BengalCOUNTRY IndiaAGE (in 2021) 54 Years OldBIRTH SIGN PiscesHEIGHT in centimeters- 171 cmin meters- 1.71 min Feet Inches- 5’ 7”WEIGHT in Kilograms- 64 kgin Pounds- 141.1 lbs
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She gave her first stage performance in Kala Mandir, Kolkata, India.Most of her songs were recorded in Mehboob Studio.Hundreds of her recordings were present in Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad.She shares the title with Asha Bhosle for winning the highest number of Filmfare Awards as a Playback Singer.In the year 2002, on the occasion of 100 years of Hindi Cinema, her song “Taal Se Taal Mila” from the movie ‘Taal’ was chosen as the best song of the century, according to the poll conducted by Hindustan Times, DesiMartini, and Fever 104.Her song “Choli Ke Peeche” from the movie ‘Khalnayak’ was chosen as the hottest song of the century in a poll conducted by Sanona.She has been involved in various projects that focus on the empowerment of the girl child.She has also sung with her brother Samir Yagnik.She has been the judge of many singing reality shows of India, mainly Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and Star Voice India.Her song “Chamma Chamma” has been featured in “Hindi Sad Diamonds” from the soundtrack of the film “Moulin Rouge!”She considers the music of this era as a ‘forced element.’Alka has regrets for not singing the tracks for the movie Roja (1992).According to her, she already committed to sing for other directors and the music director was A.R. Rahman who was debuting with the movie Roza.She along with Kumar Sanu rejected to sing for the movie because they didn’t know A.R. Rahman.Alka once faced her own #MeToo moment. Once an anonymous film director arranged to meet her in her home.When he arrived at her home, he blatantly grab hold of her. Fortunately, her mother was home; he left her home without a word.She later had to leave singing for the movie because the director wanted her to be out of the film.Alka Yagnik, who won twice a national award, has the ability to sing songs in dozens of languages.Apart from Hindi, he has given many hits in all Indian languages.At 14 she recorded the first song for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in the year 1980.Her mother Shubha Yagnik was also a trained classical singer.She shares the highest number of Filmfare Awards for Singing with K.J.Yesudas. They both have won 7 awards each.Her song ‘Taal Se Taal Mila’ was voted as the best song of the century.Alka married a Shillong-based businessman, Neeraj Kapoor in 1989 but the couple has been in a long-distance marriage for more than 25 years.Been more than two decades, Alka and Neeraj are still together with no regrets absolutely about their married life.After so much of sacrifice and problems, their marriage is a sure shot example of the fact that marriages can survive with the partners are ready to work for it.
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