General Info:
Date of Birth: March 12, 1984 (Age 29)
Birthplace: Rawatbhata, Rajasthan, India
Mini Biography:
Early years:
Shreya Ghoshal was born in a Bengali Brahmin family.She grew up in
Rawatbhata,a small town near Kota,Rajasthan.Her father works in Bhabha
Atomic Research Center as a plant engineer for the Nuclear Power Nuclear
Power Corporation of India while her mother is a literature graduate
student.
From the age of four Ghoshal accompanied her mother on the harmonium.Her
parents enrolled her for formal training in Hindustani classical music
in Kota with Maheshchandra Sharma.
As a child she won the children’s special episode of the Sa Re Ga Ma
contest on Zee TV.At that time,the show was hosted by singer Sonu
Niigaam famous now.Kalyanji who also judge the competition,convinced her
parents to go to Mumbai.She trained with him for 18 months and
continued her classical music training with Mukta Bhide in Mumbai.She
studied at Atomic Energy Central Schools (AECS) Kota and Anushaktinagar
(Mumbai). To graduate, enrolled at the university at SIES its Arts
Stream.
Career:
She caught the attention of film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she
participated in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for a second time, this time competing
against adults.In 2000, he was offered the opportunity to be the voice
of Paro, the lead female character of his film Devdas, who was to be
played by Aishwarya Rai.Shreya sang five songs in the film. Moviegoers
of all Ghoshal singing voice worldheard the photo in Aishwarya Rai, and
she quickly became one of the lead singers in Bollywood female
reproductive along side Alka Yagnik,Sunidhi Chauhan,Sadhana Sargam and
Kavita Krishnamurthy.This song earned him the Filmfare Award for best
singer that year, aswell as the RD Burman award, given to new music
talent in thesame awards ceremony.
Since Devdas, who was to sing for many other actresses under the baton
of various music directors, including Anu Malik, Himesh Reshammiya, MM
Keeravani, Nadeem Shravan, Shankar-Ehsaan Loy, Pritam, Vishal Shekhar,
Hamsalekha, Mano Murthy, Gurukiran, Ilayaraja, AR Rahman, Yuvan Shankar
Raja and Harris Jayaraj. She has won many awards. He has also received
many accolades for ‘Mere Dholna’ Bhool Bhulaiyaa song.
Today Ghoshal is an established industry singer and has recorded
invarious regional languages, including Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu,
Malayalam, Bengali, Meitei, Marathi, and Bhojpuri. She also appeared in
the judge handle singing show Amul Star Voice Of India Chhote Ustaad.
Shealso title sang songs in many Indian television series.
Ghosal has completed her college education, and are planning topursue
his masters in literature. She enjoys Symphony and instrumental music
inwestern and his favorite band is ABBA. But Indian music isdefinitely
his soul. Her voice has a texture that suits romantic songsand can
project voice very well (a good example is “Jaadu Hai NashaHai” Jism).
It is also comfortable singing sad songs or peppysongs. Apart from
Devdas, who has done songs for Jism, Saaya, Inteha, Out of Control,
Khakee, Munnabhai MBBS, Dhoom, Kuchh Kaha Aapne, Armaan, Desh Devi,
Tujhe Meri Kasam, LOC Kargil, Aetbaar, Police, Lage Raho Munnabhai,
Guru, Big BETC. She is the only playback singer who has been nominated
in 4 ofThe 5 nominations for best playback singer for his songs in 2007
inIIFA 2008. He won the best playback singer award Filmfare IIFA 2009and
2009 for her performance in Pritam’s song of “Teri Ore” from Singh is
Kinng.
