Sanjeevani (singer)

Sanjeevani Bhelande
Sanjeevani Bhelande in 2014
Background information
Also known as	Sanjeevani
Born	Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Genres	Hindustani classical
Occupation(s)	Singer
Years active	1995–present

Sanjeevani Bhelande(born 26 January),^[2] better known by her first name as Sanjeevani, is the first ever winner of a talent show in the history of Indian television, to have got a Bollywood playback singing break. In 1995 she won the Zee TV voice talent hunt show Sa Re Ga Ma.^[3]

Personal life

Sanjeevani was born in a family of academicians. Her father was Director of Education for Maharashtra government and Professor of Sanskrit. Her mother retired as Professor of English.She has an older sister and brother.

Sanjeevani holds a Masters in Commerce, a Diploma in Mass Communication and a degree in music( Sangeet Visharad).^[4][5]

Career

Sanjeevani sang five of the eight songs of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Hindi movie Kareeb, which was her first movie as playback singer. She won the Ashirwad best playback singer award for the song 'Chori chori jab nazrein mili'. She was nominated for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award in 1999. She has sung several hits like Nikamma kiya is dil ne ( film 'Kya dil ne kaha'-music: Himesh Reshamiya), Chidiya main hoti (film 'Nayak', musicA. R. Rahman, Yara rub russ jane de( film 'Socha na tha', music: Sandesh), Makhmali yeh badan (film 'Road'), Uljhanon ko (film 'Rules').

Sanjeevani has performed more than 1000 concerts around the world. Her specialty is the classical based songs. She comperes,scripts and designs her shows.She has millions of dollars for the fund raisers of Ekal Vidyalaya, USA. Her concerts with Waheeda Rehman and Gulzar were a sellout. In her book and CD "MEERA & ME', she has translated and sung saint Meerabai's poems into English.These were released by Mahesh Bhatt and Vidhu Vinod Chopra.^[6] Sanjeevani has composed and sung around 100 tracks for the online spiritual channel Rajshrisoul including hanuman chalisa, krishna bhajans,aartis,chants.Sanjeevani represented India in the Asia-pacific broadcasting union(ABU)song festival held in Istanbul Turkey in October 2015 and won accolades. Sanjeevani has sung several regional albums like 'Junee Junee' and Janamjanam in Nepali, 'Ganesham Gungambhiram',Jai Shri Ganpati in Marathi,^[7][8] 'Darshnam paapnashanam' in Gujrati, 'Tooniga tooniga' in Telugu, Bichiya ro ranko in Rajasthani and has sung in 11 languages.^[9]

She also co-hosted Doordarshan TV serial 'Picnic Antakshari' with Sachin Pilgaonkar. In May 2017, she performed for the first time in the United Kingdom with a UK based group Indian Ocean.This was a super successful show.

Filmography

This is a filmography of Indian vocalist Sanjeevani. The list includes the popular songs sung by her in various films, especially [Hindi and Nepali], from 1995 onward.

References

External links

• Sanjeevani on IMDb
• Official website of Sanjeevani