Sadhana Sargam
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Sadhana Sargam is one of the well-known singers from India. She is known as very melodious and versatile singer. Although a chitpavan Maharashtrian, she has sung almost all major Indian languages of India.
She is also a very talented classical musician. She was trained by her mother at her early childhood and then by Pandit Jasraj by latter on. She is famous for her live concerts and for her flawless brilliant live performances.
She won several awards throughout her career including prestigious Indian national award as the best female playback singer in 2002 for a Tamil song "Pattu solli" from the movie "Azhagi" composed by living music legend Meastro Ilayaraja. She was the first North Indian singer either male or female to have won national award for a South Indian language song.
She is one of the few singers who are equally recognized and successful in both classical and light music fields. Recently Sargam was among the singers who took part in a classical concert to mark Mangeshkar's 100th birthday celebrations and earned a big praise from none other than Hirudhayanath Mangeshkar for her stunning performances in Hindustani classicals.
In her early days as a singer, her voice in high octaves was thought to be similar to that of Lata Mangeshkar while her low octave voice was that of Asha Bhosle. However, as time passed Sargam developed her own style that cannot be imitated by others. It is believed that Sadhana Sargam was unwittingly responsible for the rift between music greats Kalyanji-Anandji and Lata Mangeshkar when the duo compared Sargam with Mangeshkar. Mangheskar thought the comparing herself with a much junior teenage singer was very unacceptable.
Her all time favorites include Pehla Nasha from Jo jeeta Wohi sikandar,chupke se from saathiya and sinehithane, the original version of chupke se in Tamil.
Sadhana Sargam was well received in Tamil Nadu. She is very busy in Tamil music field. Among the North Indian singers, Sargam sang the highest number of songs in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada music fields. She is more popular than Lata Mangheshkar, Asha Bhosle, Anuradha Paudwal or Alka Yagnik in Tamil Nadu , Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, where Tamil is spoken widely and Tamil music is listened to.
Composers Ilayaraja and A. R. Rahman use her voice more often in Hindi, Tamil, or Telugu songs. She also sang in an international production Warriors of Heaven and Earth under Mr. Rahman direction recently and became a global singer.
