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She enjoys symphony and instrumental western music; her favourite groups are Dream Theater, Backstreet Boys and Boyzone. But Indian music is her passion. She won three more Filmfare Awards. She is the only singer to get four national awards at the age of 26 in the Hindi film industry.
She enjoys symphony and instrumental western music; her favourite groups are Dream Theater, Backstreet Boys and Boyzone. But Indian music is her passion. She won three more Filmfare Awards. She is the only singer to get four national awards at the age of 26 in the Hindi film industry.


===Others===

Recently She has also sung a song called [http://liveagain.in Live again] for [http://www.reverbnation.com/agam Agam ( a bangalore based contemporary carnatic band)]. This is the first time that she has ever sung for a band. The song has been composed in support of breast cancer awareness and will help in raising funds for [http://www.cpaaindia.org/ Cancer Patient Aid Organization (CPAA)]
==Awards and recognitions==
==Awards and recognitions==


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Shreya Ghoshal

Shreya Ghoshal (Bengali: শ্রেয়া ঘোষাল; born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in Bollywood films, she has also performed several songs for other Indian film industries. Besides Hindi, she performs in Assamese, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi,and Tamil 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. She has worked with many prominent Indian musicians, and several of her songs have achieved critical and commercial success. Ghoshal is one of the most awarded playback singers in recent times, with four National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards to her credit.

Biography

Early years

Ghoshal was born to a Bengali Hindu family in Kolkata, West Bengal. Her ancestors came from the Bikrampur region of Dhaka district, Bangladesh. She grew up in Rawatbhata, a small town near Kota, Rajasthan. She belongs to a highly academic family. Her father "B Ghoshal" works in Bhabha Atomic Research Center as a nuclear power plant engineer for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India; her mother is a post-graduate literature student.

From the age of four Ghoshal accompanied her mother on the harmonium. She trained in Hindustani classical music in Kota with Maheshchandra Sharma.[1]

As a child, she won the children's special episode of the Sa Re Ga Ma (now Sa Re Ga Ma Pa) contest on Zee TV. Kalyanji, who also judged the competition, convinced her parents to move to Mumbai.[2] She trained with Kalyanji for 18 months and continued her classical music training with Mukta Bhide in Mumbai.[1]

She studied at Atomic Energy Central Schools (AECS) at Rawatbhata and Anushaktinagar (Mumbai). After graduation she enrolled at SIES College.

Career

Ghoshal caught the attention of film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali 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 his film Devdas, who was portrayed by Aishwarya Rai. Shreya sang five songs under the musical direction of Ismail Darbar 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 a National Film Award for the song "Bairi Piya".

Since Devdas, she has received awards singing under prominent musicians including A. R. Rahman, M. M. Keeravani, Shantanu Moitra and Pritam. She has won many awards both in the north and south film industries. Moviegoers from across the world heard Ghoshal’s singing voice pictured on Aishwarya Rai, and in coming years she quickly became one of the top female playback singers in Bollywood, alongside Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, and Kavita Krishnamurthy.

She enjoys symphony and instrumental western music; her favourite groups are Dream Theater, Backstreet Boys and Boyzone. But Indian music is her passion. She won three more Filmfare Awards. She is the only singer to get four national awards at the age of 26 in the Hindi film industry.

Others

Recently She has also sung a song called Live again for Agam ( a bangalore based contemporary carnatic band). This is the first time that she has ever sung for a band. The song has been composed in support of breast cancer awareness and will help in raising funds for Cancer Patient Aid Organization (CPAA)

Awards and recognitions

Special Recognition

National Film Awards

Filmfare Awards

Filmfare Awards South

IIFA Awards

  • 2003: IIFA Best Female Playback Award (shared with Kavita Krishnamurthy) - Dola Re (Devdas)
  • 2004: IIFA Best Female Playback Award - Jadu Hai Nasha Hai (Jism)
  • 2008: IIFA Best Female Playback Award - Barso Re (Guru)
  • 2009: IIFA Best Female Playback Award - Teri Ore (Singh Is Kinng)

Zee Cine Awards

Star Screen Awards

Other Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Singer Interview: Shreya Ghoshal". hindisong.com.
  2. ^ "'I simply closed my eyes and sang'". rediff.com.
  3. ^ Realbollywood. "June 26 declared Shreya Ghoshal Day in Ohio". Realbollywood.
  4. ^ "Stardust Reader's choice Awards 2003, URL Retireived 2010-01-21
  5. ^ "Winners of 3rd Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
  6. ^ "GPBA 2008 Gewinner Übersicht - Winner Overview". GPBA. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
  7. ^ "Stars Shine at Aspara Awards 2010, India Forum, URL last accessed on 12 January 2010

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