including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Marathi, Manipuri, Odia, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Tamil and Telugu. Besides Hindi, she has sung in more than twenty-five languages, besides singing 15 Pakistani songs. The song won her the first out of seven Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer. She has said that she had a high fever on the day she recorded " Ek Do Teen". She got her big break with the song "Ek Do Teen" from the film Tezaab (1988). This was followed by Laawaris (1981) with the song "Mere Angane Mein", followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980). Career Ī classically trained Yagnik began singing bhajans for Akashvani (All India Radio), Calcutta at the age of six. Yagnik mentioned that she was a bright student but didn't like studies. 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. Kapoor heard the girl and sent her with a letter to noted music director Laxmikant. On a subsequent visit, Yagnik got a letter of introduction to Raj Kapoor from his Kolkata distributor. She was advised to wait until her voice matured, but her mother remained determined. At age 10, her mother brought her to Mumbai as a child singer.
In 1972 at age six, she started singing for Akashvani ( All India Radio), Calcutta. Her mother Shubha was a singer of Indian classical music.
Yagnik was born in Kolkata on 20 March 1966 to a Gujarati family. She has been on the chart for 283 weeks with 300 million views. She is ranked No.1 on the YouTube's Music Charts & Insights list of top global artists as of February 2022. Twenty of her tracks feature in BBC's list of top forty tracks of all-time. In her career spanning over four decades she has sung songs for more than thousand films and recorded over twenty thousand songs in different Indian languages. Yagnik is one of the most prolific female playback singers, and has sung a large number of female solos in her Bollywood career. In her career spanning over four decades she has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and received several accolades including two National Film Awards, two Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer from a record of thirty-six nominations. She has been described in the media as one of the most prominent and successful playback singers in Bollywood. Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer who works predominantly in Hindi Cinema.
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