Salil Kulkarni
| Saleel Kulkarni | |
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| Background information | |
| Native name | सलील कुलकर्णी |
| Born | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Genres | Soundtracks, albums, movie, light music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, music director, poet, writer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Associated acts | Writing, compering |
Saleel Kulkarni (born in Pune, Maharashtra) is a Marathi music composer, singer and author.
Saleel Kulkarni sang the Marathi Prose 'Jayostute ' on All India Radio, Pune station at the age of three. Thereafter, he undertook key lessons in singing and music from eminent personalities like Gangadharbuva Pimpalkhare, Jaymalabai Shiledar and Pramod Marathe. Formal education wise, Saleel is a medicine graduate and was working as a doctor in the early part of his career. While working as a music director for the last ten years, he has composed songs for Hindi and Marathi albums, serials and films.
As a singer, Saleel has rendered his voice for many composers for albums and shows. In the role of established music director, he had cast many singers to sing different genres of songs. Some of the artists that have sung/recorded for Saleel Kulkarni include Bela Shende, Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sandeep Khare, Hrishikesh Ranade, Suvarna Mategaonkar, Shubha Joshi, Madhura Datar, Vibhavari Apte, Avadhoot Gupte. Saleel played Judge for competitive singing reality show "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa" on Zee Marathi where along with assessing the performances of participants, he mentored and nurtured many upcoming talented individuals. Saleel is an accomplished music composer and singer. He has also written columns in leading marathi daily. He is author of a maiden book "Lapavalelya Kaacha" Saleel runs a Music School in Pune.
Saleel has teamed up with Sandip Khare, with a talented & popular poet from Pune for the show 'Ayushyawar Bolu Kahi' (आयुष्यावर बोलू काही). Saleel was also a part of Marathi SaReGaMaPa as judge and mentor. Saleel has performed in musical concerts all over the world including UK, US, Singapore, Switzerland, and Shanghai. There have well over 1000 shows so far.
He is doing selected shows with veteran music director Hridaynath Mangeshkar for program 'Maitra Jeevanche' (मैत्र जीवांचे). After a long break of almost 12 years Lata Mangeshkar sang marathi bhavgeeta when she recorded songs with him as a music director for the album "Kshan Amrutache".
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