Wednesday, August 28, 2013
SHREYA GHOSHAL (born March 12, 1984) is an Indian singer.
Best known as a playback singer in Hindi films, she also sings in
other Indian languages including Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Malayalam,Tamil and Telugu.
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 National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer along
with Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare
RD Burman Award for New Music Talent. Since then, she has received many
other awards. Ghoshal was also honored from the U.S. state of Ohio,
wherein governor Ted Strickland declared June 26 as "Shreya
Ghoshal Day". She was also featured in the Forbes’ Top 100
celebrities of India. In 2013, Ghoshal became the third Indian to have
over 10 million likes in the social networking site Facebook after A.
R. Rahman and Sachin Tendulkar, and thereby, the first Indian woman
too in this regard.
Shreya Ghoshal was born on March 12, 1984, to a Bengali Hindu family
in Baharampur, West Bengal. Thereafter, she spent the next three
months in her birthplace in West Bengal. She grew up in Rawatbhata, a
small town near Kota, Rajasthan, where her father was transferred.
Her father, Mr Bishwajit Ghoshal is a nuclear power plantengineer and
works for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, and her mother, Mrs
Sarmistha Ghoshal is a literature post-graduate.[6] She lived there for
thirteen years and completed her schooling up to Eighth Standard at Rawatbhata
at the Atomic Energy Central School.
In 1997, when her father was transferred to Mumbai, Ghoshal
had to shift to Mumbai with her family. In Mumbai, she studied at Atomic
Energy Central School inAnushaktinagar. She joined the Atomic Energy
Junior College for studying Science. However, she felt difficulty in
studying Science as her musical career in Bollywood had already began
by the time. So, she dropped out from there and enrolled at SIES College
at Sion in Mumbai for graduation, where she took up Arts with English as
Major.
Rawatbhata was a primeval town, unpolluted and away from
urban influence. In Rawatbhata, Ghoshal experienced the existence of several
cultural programmes and social assemblages, which facilitated her in starting a
musical world of her own. A cultural inclination of her parents and the luck of
having a mother as a singer accelerated her musical journey. The involvement of
her parents in such functions brought her opportunities to sing as a small
child, thereby, introducing her the first lessons in the field of music. Her
mother sang during rehearsals and she used to repeat by buzzing the same songs
with infantile pronunciation. During those days, her parents detected her love
towards singing.
Ghoshal's mother turned out to be her first teacher, when at the
age of four, she accompanied her on the harmonium and started practicing songs,
chiefly Bengali songs. Her first stage performance was made at their
club's annual function. When she turned six, she started her lessons in Hindustani
classical music. She got training in Hindustani classical music by Rakesh
Sharma of Kota, Shri Jayawardhan Bhatnagar, the music teacher of her
school, and finally from Mahesh Chandra Sharma of Kota. Her introduction
to Hindi film songs and Rajasthani folk was made by Shri
Jayawardhan Bhatnagar.
In 1995, Shreya became the winner of the All India Light Vocal
Music Competition, New Delhi, which was organised by the Sangam Kala
Group, in the Light Vocal group at a sub-junior level. Ghoshal was judged
by Kalyanji-Anandji and Pandit Rajan and Sajan Mishra at
various times of her life. Ghoshal made her first on-screen appearance with a
show, named "Awaz Nayi Andaz Wohi" which was aired on the
channel EL TV, where she got Kalyanji-Anandji and Pandit Rajan and Sajan
Mishra as her judges. She made her first studio recording with this
show in 1996. As a child, she won the 75th Children's Special episode of the Sa
Re Ga Ma (now Sa Re Ga Ma Pa) contest on Zee TV. Further on, she
again obtained triumph at miscellaneous episodes of Sa Re Ga Ma. Shreya's last
connection with Sa Re Ga Ma was the Mega-final judged by diverse judges,
viz, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Ram Narayan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Girija
Devi, Anil Biswas and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. Late Padma
Shri Kalyanji, who also judged the competition, convinced her parents to
move to Mumbai. She was trained in playback singing by Kalyanji for
18 months and she continued her classical music training with Late Mukta
Bhide in Mumbai.
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