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Alka Yagnik is an Indian playback singer.Sheisnoted in Hindi cinema with a career spanning over threedecades.Sheis a record seven-time winner from a record of 36nominationsof theFilmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, atwo-timerecipientof the National Film Award as well as severalother musicawards& honours listed below. Further, as many as20 of hertracksfeature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks ofall time"review.Alka Yagnik was born in Kolkata on 20 March 1966,toGujaratiHindu Parents. Her mother Shubha Yagnik was a singerofIndianclassical music. She did her schooling from ModernHighSchool forGirls. In 1972 at the age of six, she started singingforAkashvani(All India Radio), Calcutta. At age 10, her motherbroughther toMumbai as a child singer. She was advised to waituntil hervoicematured, but her mother remained determined. On asubsequentvisit,Alka got a letter of introduction to Raj Kapoorfrom hisKolkatadistributor. Kapoor heard the girl and sent her withaletter tonoted music director Laxmikant. Impressed, Laxmikantgaveher twoalternatives – an immediate start as a dubbing artist oralaterbreak as a singer; Shubha chose the latter forherdaughter.Alka is classically trained and began singingbhajansforAkashvani (All India Radio), Calcutta at the age of six.Herfirstsong was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980),followedbyLaawaris (1981) with the song "Mere Angane Mein",followed bythefilm Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). She got her big breakwith thesong"Ek Do Teen" from the film Tezaab (1988). The song wonheraFilmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer.She has sung in many languages other thanUrdu-Hindi,includingGujarati, Avadhi, Odia, Assamese, Manipuri,Nepali,Rajasthani,Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu,Tamil,English andMalayalam.She has worked with Indian composers suchasKalyanji–Anandji,Rahul Dev Burman, Laxmikant–Pyarelal,RajeshRoshan,Nadeem–Shravan, Jatin–Lalit, Anu Malik, A. R.Rahman,Anand–Milind,Himesh Reshammiya, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, IsmailDarbar,AadeshShrivastava, Viju Shah, M. M. Keeravani, Sajid–Wajid,BappiLahiri,Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sandesh Shandilya andmanyothers.In a career spanning over three decades she has sungmanyduetsongs, most of these have been with Kumar Sanu andUditNarayan.She has also sung many duets with Abhijeet,Hariharan,VinodRathod, Sonu Nigam & Shaan .She has such as "Tum Aaye" and "Shairana" in which sheworkedinclose collaboration with award-winning lyricist JavedAkhtarandsinger Hariharan. She has also rendered the HanumanChalisaandvarious devotional songs.Alka shares the title with Asha Bhosle for the greatestnumberofFilmfare Awards won by a single female playback singer.Alkahasalso been the judge of various Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challengeshows,andStar Voice of India, both singing competition shows,inwhichchildren or adults of various age groups compete withoneanotherto win the award for best vocals. She had recently judgedSaRe GaMa Pa L'il Champs Season 5 {2014-2015} as a Maha Guru(alsoinprevious 2 seasons). In addition to this, her song"ChammaChamma"from China Gate was featured in the song "HindiSadDiamonds" fromthe soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge!. Shehasalso beenperforming in live concerts around the world.In 2012 she along with Sonu Nigam sang a song 'ShikshaKaSuraj'as part of National Literacy Mission of India for whichshewasfelicitated by Union Minister For Human ResourceDevelopmentKapilSibal. Further in 2012, on occasion of 100 years ofHindiCinema,her song "Taal Se Taal Mila" from the movie Taal wasvotedas thebest song of the century in a poll conductedbyDesiMartini,Hindustan Times and Fever 104. Also her song "CholiKePeeche" fromthe movie Khalnayak was voted as the hottest songofthe century ina poll conducted by Sanona.