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Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik

About Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik is an Indian playback singer. She is noted in Indian cinema for a career spanning over three decades. She is a record seven-time winner from a record of 36 nominations of the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and a two-time recipient of the National Film Award. Further, as many as twenty of her tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time" review. Alka is classically trained and began singing bhajans for Akashvani (All India Radio), Calcutta[5] at the age of six. Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980), followed by Laawaris (1981) with the song "Mere Angane Mein", followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). She got her big break with the song "Ek Do Teen" from the film Tezaab (1988). The song won her first out of seven Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer. Alka shares the title with Asha Bhosle for the greatest number of Filmfare Awards won (7) by a single female playback singer. In a career spanning over three decades she has sung many duet songs, most of these have been with Kumar Sanu and then udit Narayan. She has also sung many duets with Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet, Hariharan, Vinod Rathod, and Shaan. Her song "Chamma Chamma" from China Gate was featured in the song "Hindi Sad Diamonds" from the soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge!. She has also been performing in live concerts around the world. She has also been involved in various projects pertaining to empowerment of the girl child. She has sung 2,486 Hindi songs in 1,114 films. She is the fifth most prolific Bollywood singer of all time after Asha Bhosle (7886 songs), Lata Mangeshkar (5596 songs), Mohammed Rafi (4,774 songs) and Kishore Kumar (2,707 songs).

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