Alka Yagnik Profile: Alka Yagnik is an Indian Play Back singer. She is well known for her songs in Hindi. She continued her career for up to 3 decades. She is the receiver of Film fare awards 7 times as Best Play back Singer Female. It was a rare record. For other info please check Alka Yagnik Biography from here.

Alka Yagnik BiographyEarly Life:

Alka Yagnik was born on 20th March 1966 in Kolkata. Her mother was a classical singer. With her inspiration Alka started singing in Aakasavani at the age of 6. She waited for few years. Impressed with her voice Laxmikantha famous Music Director gave her two alternatives an immediate start as a dubbing artist or a later break as a singer. Alka’s mother Subha chose the second option for her daughter.

Music Career:

  • She was trained in classical music and used to perform Bhajans on All India Radio from the age 6 .
  • Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980) and continued in successive years.
  • Her first big break was with the film Tezaab which was released in the year 1988. This song brought her first film fare award. She sung in languages like Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, English and Malayalam.
  • She worked with great composers like Kalyanji anandji, Rahul dev, Lakshmikant, Rahaman, Shankar- ehesan-loy, Keeravani, Himesh reshmiya etc.
  • She has been the judge for shows like Sa Re Ga ma Pa and Star voice.
  • She has sung 2,485 Hindi songs in 1,114 films. She is the fifth Bollywood singer of all time to sing more songs after Asha Bhosle (7866 songs), Lata Mangeshkar (5596 songs), Mohammed Rafi (4,778 songs) and Kishore Kumar (2,703 songs).

Personal life:

Alka Yagnik married Neeraj Kapoor.

Alka Yagnik FamilyAlka Yagnik Hit Songs:

Name of the song Name of the film/Album
Agar thum saat hoTamasha 2015
Tip tip barsa paaniMohra 1994
Dilbar dilbarSirf tum 1999
Zindagi ban gaye ho tumKasoor 2000
Ladki badi anjaniKuch kuch hota hai 1998

Below is the table which gives the complete details about Alka Yagnik Biography such as her age, nick name, family details, net worth, education and awards etc.

Alka Yagnik Biography:

NameAlka Yagnik
Full NameAlka Yagnik
Nick namesAlka , melody queen
Date of Birth20th March 1966
Age50
Place of birthIn Kolkata
OccupationSinger
GenresBollywood play back singing
Height5.6
Zodiac signNA
EducationModern high school for girls
NationalityIndian
Family DetailsFather, Mother,  spouse
Mother NameShubha Yagnik
FatherSyesha  Kapoor
HusbandNeeraj Kapoor
Languages KnownHindi, Bengali etc
Contact AddressN/A
Net worthNA
AwardsNA
Famous SongsChetilona cheyyesi from premaku velayera

Chinni manase from manasutho 2004

Chura ke dil

Kaho na pyar hai

Janne kyon

Kabhi alvida na kehna

Aag chahat ki lag jaayegi etc..

Awards: 

Total number of awards received 76

Name of the AwardNumber of Awards received
Film fare7
National Film award2
Bollywood movie awards4
Zee cine awards3
Apsara award1

Alka Yagnik website https://www.alkayagnik.co.in/

Alka Yagnik twitter https://twitter.com/thealkayagnik?lang=en

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