Friday, February 4, 2011

Shreya Ghoshal



Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in Hindi films, she has also performed several songs for other Indian film industries such as Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu songs.

Ghoshal's career began when she won the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa contest as an adult. Her Bollywood playback singing career began with Devdas, for which she received both the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent. Since then, she has worked in more than 180 films and received four National Film Awards and seven Filmfare Awards.


Ghoshal caught the attention of a music director Ismail Darbar when she participated in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for a second time, this time as an adult. In 2000, he offered her the opportunity to be the voice of Paro, the lead female character of the film Devdas, who was portrayed by Aishwarya Rai.Shreya sang five songs in the film. Her performance won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, as well as Filmfare's RD Burman Award for New Music Talent, given to upcoming talents in music. She also won the National Film Award for the song "Bairi Piya".

Since Devdas, she has received awards singing under musicians including Ilaiyaraaja, A. R. Rahman, M. M. Keeravani, Shantanu Moitra, Mano Murthy and Pritam. She has won many awards both in the north and south film industries of India.

She has received State Film Awards from Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu industries. She debuted in South through the song "Yen Chellam" in Vasantha Balan's album and got noticed after singing the duet "Munbe Vaa" from Sillunu Oru Kaadhal under composer A. R. Rahman. She debuted in Malayalam through a studio album of composer Alphons Joseph and later gave voice to his song "Vida Parayukayano" from Big B.
 
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