| Alyssia Vibha Sharma | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 15, 1984 London, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Bollywood and regional filmi playback singing |
| Occupations | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1997-present |
Alyssia Vibha Sharma is an Indipop star who released her first album in the 90s. She made her foray into Indian Popdom with her debut album Mehandi (2000), HMV SaReGaMa Records, which was well received by the music lovers and was one of the top 3 best selling albums of that year. Its title song Mehandi Lagaoongi Main became a hit.
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Vibha Sharma was born and bought up in London and hails from a Hindu Punjabi-Kashmiri Pandit background, she always had a great liking for Indian music. But she never thought of taking up music seriously until she won a singing competition in which more than 700 Indians from all over Europe had participated.
As a result she took to learning Indian classical music under the tutelage of Parshottam Kapila in London, and later on, when she came to India she continued her training under the guidance of Pandit Ajay Pohankar, Geeta Prem (sister to singer Jagjit Singh), amongst other Gurus.
Aside from her music accomplishments Alyssia has also attained a BSc (Hons) from a University in London.
Vibha Sharma started her career in Bollywood when she got her first break with Anu Malik, who, once having heard her in London, offered her to sing for two songs in Ishq (1997). Bulandi, Hadh Kar Di Apne, Dil Dhoondhta Hai were other feathers in her cap and she also sung Vaishnva Jana To for Kamal Hassan's controversial film Hey Ram.
She did some more playback singing before launching her first private album with Anand Raj Anand. She also sang a Tamil song for Kartik Raja, son of Illyaraja, Inde Siripinai, which was criticized for wrong pronunciation but despite this the song was at No.1 in the South Indian music charts for several weeks and later Kartik Raja was quoted to say "I have received a lot of positive feedback from music lovers asking me to work with Vibha Sharma more often".
She is known in the UK as Alyssia. V. Sharma, working with renowned Punjabi DJ's and producers Panjabi Hit Squad releasing an album self titled 'Alyssia' which was one of the top 5 best-selling albums of the year. Three songs off the album reigned at the No.1 spot on all the primary Asian music charts around UK. Alyssia was also nominated in the category of 'Best Female Singer' for the UK AMA awards for Deewana.
Alyssia has been performing all over UK and Europe since the release of Deewana. Some of her more prestigious appearances have inlcuded the Viva La Glam show sponsored by MAC make up company in Canada and Apple Store Bollywood Themed Carnival, Regent Street, London.
Sharma released videos for two tracks on her album, Deewana and Tera Pyar Soneya Veh and featured on Ms.Scandalous' latest album and video, which released in 2008, AAG.
Alyssia.V.Sharma has recently recorded for Panjabi Hit Squad's album due for release in 2012 and is rumoured to be currently working on her own album simultaneously.
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