Kavita Seth
| Kavita Seth | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
14 September 1970 Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh |
| Genres | Sufi, playback singing |
| Occupation(s) | Playback singer, singer of ghazals, Sufi music |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Website | www |
Kavita Seth (born 1970) is an Indian singer, who is most known as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, as well as a performer of Ghazals and Sufi music, and has formed her musical group, Karwaan Group, a band of Sufi musicians
She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 2010 for her classical Sufi rendition "Gunja Sa Koi Iktara" for the film Wake Up Sid (2009), she also won the Star Screen Award for Best Female Playback for the same song, which was one of the biggest chartbusters in 2009.
Born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, where she was brought up and did her schooling as well as her graduation.
After her marriage she moved to Delhi, where she started performing for All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan. Meanwhile, she also did her post graduation in Music, Sangeet Alankar from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Delhi and received MA degree in Hindi literature from the University of Delhi.
She received her musical training in Hindustani classical music under N.D.Sharma of Gwalior Gharana, Vinod from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, and Iqbal Ahmad Khan.
She first started performing at the Khan-kahe Niyazia Dargah, in Bareilly, which soon lead singing in public shows and musical concerts.
Kavita specialises in Sufi-style singing though she also sings geet, ghazal and folk songs. Over the years she has performed at live shows at London, Birmingham, Scotland, Berlin, Oslo and Stockholm and places across India. It was at one of her performance at Muzaffar Ali's International Sufi Festival concert, in Delhi that director Satish Kaushik heard her and offered a song "Zindagi ko Maula", in his film, the Amisha Patel starrer, Vaada (2005), marking her debut as a playback singer. Subsequently she moved to Mumbai, as this was followed by, "Mujhe Mat Roko" in Anurag Basu's Gangster (2006), for which she received rave reviews.
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