Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik
Person from India
Genres: bhajan, filmi, ghazal, indian pop, filmi music, Indian classical music, Indian pop, Indian folk music
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About Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik (अलका याज्ञिक) 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 700 Indian films. She was born into a Gujarati family. Both her parents were well versed in classical music. She is classically trained, and has been one of the leading playback singers in Bollywood since the late 1980's. Yagnik began singing bhajans for Calcutta Radio at the age of six. She thought singing as a hobby but later thought about it as a profession. Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar (1979), followed by Laawaris (1981) with the hit song Mere Angene Mein, followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). She got her big break with the song Ek Do Teen from the film Tezaab (1988). The song turned her into a star overnight and went on to become a pop hit. She also received her first Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for the song. Her voice has mostly been used for the younger generation of stars. She has done the playback singing for some of the biggest stars in the industry. Alka also sings four other languages like Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi.
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Alka Yagnik — Top 26 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alka | Subset Sixteen | ||
| Alka | Palki Mein Hoke Sawar | ||
| Alka | I Fell Down A Very Long Well | ||
| Alka | AAYEHOMERIZINDAGIMAIN | ||
| Alka | I Am A Wreck | ||
| Alka | Hum Yahan Tum Wahan | ||
| Alka | Collocation [Specta Ciera Remix] | ||
| Alka | What Will Become Of Yur High Existence [City Rain Remix] | ||
| Alka | I Am A Wreck (Gate Zero Reconstruction) | ||
| Alka | Gali Mein Aaj Chand | ||
| Alka | Sky, Face Down | ||
| Alka | What Will Become Of Your High Existence | ||
| Alka | Israel | ||
| Alka | Blueberry | ||
| Alka | Immolated | ||
| Alka | Dasar Bucin | ||
| Alka | Jhoom Re Baba | ||
| Alka | Sanwariya Sanwariya | ||
| Alka | Kriva | ||
| Alka | Lazi me | ||
| Alka | Nek ti jutro mirise na mene | ||
| Alka | Dayone | ||
| Alka | Dasar Bucin [U20] @NAGASWARA_ID | ||
| Alka | Man Basia [Tere Naam] | ||
| Alka | Mela dillon ka | ||
| Alka | Mere Watan Mein Maine |