D O B March 20,1966
Languages Hindi
Place of Birth Kolkata
Known For Singer
Married N/A

Biography Alka Yagnik born March in Kolkata West Bengal is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best-known Hindi playback singers of all time She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award and has done playback singing for over Indian films Alka Yagnik was born in Kolkata on March to a Gujarati family Her mother Shubha Yagnik was a singer of Indian classical music At the age of she started singing for Calcutta Radio At age her mother brought her to Bombay as a child singer She was advised to wait till her voice matured but her mother remained determined and on a subsequent visit Alka got a letter of introduction to Raj Kapoor from his Kolkata distributor Raj heard the girl and sent her with a letter to noted music director Laxmikant Impressed Laxmikant gave her two alternatives - an immediate start as a dubbing artist or a later break as a singer they settled for the latter Alka Yagnik is classically trained and has been one of the leading playback singers in Bollywood since the late 's She began singing bhajans for Calcutta Radio at the age of six Her first song was for More the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in followed by Laawaris with the hit song Mere Angene Mein followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka She got her big break with the song Ek Do Teen from the film Tezaab The song turned her into a star overnight and went on to become a pop hit also winning her a Filmfare Best Female Playback Award Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak was also a career maker for her as she along with Udit Narayan became household names She has sung in many languages other than Hindi including Gujarati Oriya Assamese Manipuri Nepali Rajasthani Bengali Bhojpuri Punjabi Marathi Telugu Tamil and Malayalam In addition she has been the number one choice for film songs due to the versatility of her voice in which more film heroines have requested her voice be dubbed over their performance She has worked with many other Indian composers such as Kalyanji-Anandji Laxmikant-Pyarelal Anu Malik A R Rahman Anand-Milind Himesh Reshammiya and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Additionally she is the personal favorite of composers Laxmikant-Pyarelal Anand-Milind Anu Malik Rajesh Roshan Nadeem-Shravan and Jatin-Lalit for whom she is the first choice for their compositions She has sung in many notable albums such as Tum Yaad Aaye as well as Tum Aaye and Shairana in which she worked in close collaboration with award-winning lyricist Javed Akhtar and noted singer Hariharan Additionally she has also rendered the supreme and powerful mantra the Hanuman Chalisa and various devotional songs Alka shares the title with Asha Bhosle for the greatest number of Filmfare Awards won by a single female playback singer Alka has also been the judge of various Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge shows and Star Voice of India both singing competition shows in which children or adults of various age groups compete with one another to win the award for best vocals In addition to this her song Chamma Chamma from China Gate was featured in the song Hindi Sad Diamonds from the soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge Alka Yagnik has received numerous awards and nominations in her singing career in addition to the awards listed below She received the Filmfare award for Best Female Playback for three consecutive years from