Shalmali Kholgade

Shalmali Kholgade
Shalmali Kholgade at the Times of India Film Awards 2013
Background information
Native name	शाल्मली खोलगडे
Birth name	Shalmali Kholgade
Born	Mumbai,Maharashtra
Genres	Western music, Filmi, Hindustani classical music
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2012–present

Shalmali Kholgade born January 2, 1988, is an Indian singer-songwriter from Mumbai.^[1] She is best known as a playback singer in Hindi and Marathi films.

Her Bollywood playback singing career began with the song "Pareshaan" from the film Ishaqzaade, for which she won several awards including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer. She followed it up with hits like "Daaru Desi" from Cocktail, "Lat Lag Gayee" from Race 2, and "Balam Pichkari" from Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.

Acting career

Shalmali made her film debut with a supporting role in the 2009 Ranjan Singh's Marathi film Tu Maza Jeev, which was released on Maharashtra Day.^[2]

Music career

Career beginning (2004–2011)

Shalmali began performing at the age of 16 and has had her tutelage in music from the age of 8 years under her mother, Uma Kholgade – an Indian classical singer and theatre personality. She later continued her music education under Shubhada Paradkar and has also recently been accepted by the L.A. Music Academy for their April semester but decided not to attend, due to her recording commitments.

A versatile singer who sings both in English and Hindi. Shalmali paid a 2-hour tribute to one of her favourite singers; Amy Winehouse last year at Blue Frog, Mumbai which was attended widely. She is also a vocalist with Mikey McCleary's popular act 'The Bartender' where she has performed beautiful renditions of vintage Bollywood songs revamping it with a flavour of sensuous, old school jazz, and is featured on their second album, 'B Seventy'. Furthering her versatility as a performer, Shalmali has performed as a soloist with a Latvian troupe in a Cabaret named Bombaloo which toured Moscow, Russia and Yerevan, Armenia. ^[3]

Shalmali has been singing professionally in Mumbai for several years, Shalmali started singing as a background vocal singer for Ali Zafar's songs.^[4]

Singing debut in films & breakthrough (2012–Present)

Shalmali made her debut as a lead vocalist in Bollywood playback singing in 2012 with the song Pareshaan from film Ishaqzaade under the music of Amit Trivedi. The song was a critical and commercial success, topping charts across India.^[5][6] For Pareshaan Kholgade won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer among several other awards. Her other two songs in 2012, Daaru Desi from Cocktail,^[7][8] and Aga Bai from Aiyyaa, both became hits.^[9] In 2013, Kholgade's first track, Lat Lag Gayee from the movie Race 2 met with immense commercial appreciation. The song remained on the top of the charts for many weeks and became hugely popular in dance clubs. Kholgade received further critical and commercial success with the track Balam Pichkari from the movie Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. For the song, Kholgade received many nominations including her second Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer nomination. Apart from singing in Bollywood, Kholgade has sung in other languages as well. She also sang the title track in Shuddh Desi Romance which got her more critical appreciation.

She sang for blockbuster films like Main Tera Hero (Besharmi Ki Height), Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (D Se Dance) and Daawat-E-Ishq (Shayrana) in the year 2014. She also featured on MTV Unplugged (India) with Mikey McCleary and Sachin - Jigar. She has sung 44 songs.

Film songs

Awards and Nominations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shalmali Kholgade.

• Shalmali Kholgade at the Internet Movie Database