Abhijeet

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Abhijeet, born as Abhijeet Bhattacharya, is a singer from India. He was born in a middle-class Bengali family in Kanpur, the youngest of four siblings. Although his parents were against the idea, Abhijeet went against their wishes and became a singer.

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[edit] Career

He left home for Mumbai in 1981 to study Chartered Accountancy. Due to his fascination for singing and music, he decided to pursue a career in playback singing and quit Chartered Accountancy. Despite being gifted with a melodious voice, he struggled for a long time.

After his long struggle in Bombay, he received a call from R.D. Burman to sing for Dev Anand's sons debut film. Abhijeet also sang with Kishore Kumar, his idol, in the same film.

In the 1990s he was rewarded when the songs of Baaghi of Anand-Milind, ‘Ek chanchal shokh hasina’, ‘Chandni raat hai’ and ‘Har kasam se badi hai’ became superhits.

[edit] Today

Today Abhijeet is one of the top names when it comes to male playback singers. He has engraved himself firmly in the music world, with several other hits such as:

  • "Tan tana tan tan tara" Judwaa and many more.

Abhijeet has given his voice for actors such as Sunil Shetty, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan, and Shahrukh Khan.

After his success in playback singing, he decided to try singing pop music. He released two albums, Main Deewana Hoon and Tapori No.1. Unfortunately, both albums did not click commercially. After these two pop albums, he launched Aashiqui, which was appreciated by its audience. Recently, he has launched a pop album, called Tere Bina, whose songs and videos are chartbusters.

[edit] Trivia

Some songs such as "Kurta phaadke" from Anari No. 1 did not do well with the public. With Baadshah, he has once again hit the top charts. In 2006, he sang good songs in 'Gangster', 'Humko Deewana Kar Gaye', 'Rehguzar', 'Unns...' etc.

On May 3, 2006, he released another non-film album called Lamhe. This album is full of melodious songs. It has been well appreciated from the first week it was released.

[edit] Awards

  • FilmFare Award for best singer in 1997 for 'Chand Taare' in Yes Boss
  • Screen-Videocon Award for the best singer in 1997 for ‘Chand taare’ in Yes Boss
  • MTV Life Time Achievement Award.
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