Shreya Ghoshal | |
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Ghoshal at the 62nd Filmfare Awards South, 2015
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Native name | Bengali: শ্রেয়া ঘোষাল |
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Baharampur,Murshidabad, Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India |
12 March 1984
Residence | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce |
Occupation | Playback singer |
Years active | 1998 – present |
Home town | Rawatbhata, Rajasthan, India |
Spouse(s) | Shiladitya Mukhopadhyaya (m. 2015) |
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Instruments | Vocals |
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Website | shreyaghoshal |
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Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian playback singer. She has received four National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards including five for Best Female Playback Singer and nine Filmfare Awards South (one for Telugu, two for Kannada, two for Tamil and four for Malayalam) with three Kerala State Film Award, one Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and several other major awards to date. She has recorded songs for film music in various Indian languages, and has established herself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema.
Ghoshal aspired to become a playback singer from a young age. At the age of four, she started learning music. At the age of six, she started with her formal training in classical music. At the age of sixteen, she was noticed by film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she entered and won the television singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Following that, she made her Bollywood playback singing debut with Bhansali's romantic drama Devdas (2002) for which she received a National Film Award, a Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent.
Apart from playback singing, Ghoshal has appeared as a judge on several television reality shows. She has been honored by the U.S. state of Ohio, where governor Ted Strickland declared 26 June 2010 "Shreya Ghoshal Day". She was awarded with the highest honour in London by the selected members of House of Commons of the United Kingdom. She has also featured five times in Forbes, list of the top 100 celebrities of India.