Birth Name: Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal's voice mesmerized viewers on the television show Sa Re Ga Ma not once but twice after which, Shreya became one of the most sought after playback singers in Bollywood.
Date Of Birth: 12 March 1984
Shreya was born in a Bengali Brahmin family in West Bengal. Her father was an engineer at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center while her mother holds a degree in literature. She studied at the Atomic Energy Central School in Kota and Mumbai. She has a degree in Arts from the SIES College and hopes to do her Masters in Literature.
As a child, she trained in Hindustani Classical Music under Maheshchandra Sharma.
She appeared on Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma in a children's segment which was hosted by singer Sonu Nigam. She won the competition. One of the judges Kalyanji convinced her parents to move to Mumbai and Ghoshal trained with him for nearly two years after which she received training under Mukta Bhide.
Film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali made her to sing in Devdas. She went on to become a successful playback singer and sang songs in various languages like Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi.
She was judging Star Voice Of India-Chhote Ustaad with singer Kunal Ganjawala and composer Pritam.
Currently she is one of the three judges in X Factor (India) with Sonu Nigam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Early life
Ghoshal was born to a Bengali Hindu family in Baharampur, West Bengal. She grew up in Rawatbhata, a small town near Kota, Rajasthan. Her father, Biswajeet Ghoshal, is a nuclear power plant engineer and works for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, and her mother is a literature post-graduate. At the age of four, Ghoshal accompanied her mother on the harmonium. She got training in Hindustani classical music by Maheshchandra Sharma in Kota. As a child, she won the children's special episode of the Sa Re Ga Ma (now Sa Re Ga Ma Pa) contest on Zee TV. Kalyanji, who also judged the competition, convinced her parents to move to Mumbai. She was trained by Kalyanji for 18 months and she continued her classical music training with Mukta Bhide in Mumbai.
She studied at Atomic Energy Central School in Rawatbhata and Anushaktinagar, Mumbai. For graduation she enrolled at SIES College.
Career
As a singer
Ghoshal caught the attention of director Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she participated in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for a second time, this time as an adult. In 2000, Bhansali offered her the opportunity to be the voice of Paro, the lead female character of the film Devdas, that was portrayed by Aishwarya Rai. Ghoshal sang five songs in the film. Her performance won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, as well as Filmfare's RD Burman Award for New Music Talent. She also won the National Film Award for the song "Bairi Piya".
She has received State Film Awards from Malayalam and Tamil industries and Film fare awards in Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu industries. She debuted in South through the song "Yen Chellam" in Vasantha Balan's Tamil film Album and she received stupendous success after singing "Munbe Vaa" from Sillunu Oru Kaadhal under composer A. R. Rahman. She debuted in Malayalam through a studio album of composer Alphons Joseph and later gave voice to his song "Vida Parayukayano" from Big B.Her songs in Malayalam film Anwar became hits in Kerala and topped many charts for weeks. She is known for her frequent association with Malayalam music director M Jayachandran. In 2010, Ghoshal sang for the English independent film When Harry Tries to Marry.
As a judge
Ghoshal was a judge for Star Voice Of India-Chhote Ustaad with singer Kunal Ganjawala and composer Pritam. She was one of the three judges in X Factor India with Sonu Nigam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She was a captain on singing show Music Ka Maha Muqqabla along with Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, Himesh Reshammiya, Mohit Chauhan and Mika Singh. In 2012, Ghoshal appeared as the celebrity judge for Josco Indian Voice (season 1) on Malayalam channel Mazhavil Manorama, along with singers Sreenivas and Sujatha Mohan. In 2013, Ghoshal appeared as a judge for Indian Idol Junior Season 1, along with Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani.
On screen
In 2003, Ghoshal made an on-screen appearance in the film Saaya, singing "Har Taraf". In 2011, she appearaed on TV in advertisements for jewellery store Joyalukkas in 5 languages (Hindi,[18] Malayalam,\ Kannada, Tamil, Telugu.
Awards
Ghoshal has been recognised with multiple awards and nominations for her work in music. She won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer four times. She has won five Filmfare Awards, from 15 nominations, and seven Filmfare Awards South from 20 nominations. She has received state film awards for best singer from Kerala and Tamil Nadu governments. In addition, she has received numerous best singer awards at IIFA Awards, Zee Cine Awards, Screen Awards, Apsara Awards and Mirchi Music Awards among others. In 2010, she was honoured with the prestigious Swaralaya Yesudas Award. Ghoshal was also honored from the U.S. state of Ohio, wherein governor Ted Strickland declared June 26 as "Shreya Ghoshal Day".
Discography
In addition to the numerous songs she rendered to Indian films in various languages, she has released many solo studio albums. Her earlier albums are in Bengali language and was released by Sagarika from 1998 to 2006.
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