Shreya Ghoshal is a television personality and singer from India. She has garnered four National Film Awards, four Kerala State Film Awards, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, seven Filmfare Awards, and ten Filmfare Awards South, making her one of the highest-paid and well-known playback singers in Hindi film. She has recorded songs for films and albums in a variety of Indian languages, establishing herself as one of the country’s top playback singers.
Shreya Ghoshal was born on March 12th, 1984, in Murshidabad, West Bengal, to a Bengali family. She grew up in Rawatbhata, Rajasthan, a tiny town near Kota.
Her father, Bishwajit Ghoshal, works for the Nuclear Power Corporation of India as an electrical engineer, and her mother, Sarmistha Ghoshal, is a literature post-graduate. Soumyadeep Ghoshal is her younger brother. She began studying music when she was four years old.
Shreya Ghoshal attended the Atomic Energy Central School No.4 in Rawatbhata until eighth grade, where she was a classmate of Twitter’s current CEO, Parag Agrawal.
Career and rise to stardom
In 1995, she won the Sangam Kala Group’s All India Light Vocal Music Competition in New Delhi, in the Light Vocal group at the sub-junior level.
“Ganraj Rangi Nachato,” a cover of a Marathi song sung by Lata Mangeshkar, was Ghoshal’s first-ever recorded song. Bendhechhi Beena was her first studio album, published on January 1st, 1998, and featured 14 songs.
When Ghoshal appeared in the 75th children’s special edition of Sa Re Ga Ma, she drew filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s eye. Bhansali’s mother was watching the concert and contacted him during Ghoshal’s performance, prompting him to offer her a role in his next film. Ghoshal’s voice, according to Bhansali, possessed the innocence required for Paro in Devdas (2002).
She was named a “voice for the future” by Usha Uthup. Her vocal abilities have been acknowledged by veteran singers Vani Jairam and Manna Dey. Senior singers Alka Yagnik, Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Hemlata, Kavita Krishnamurti, and Kumar Sanu all voted for Ghoshal to be the best female singer of the generation. “If there are best all-time singers, Shreya will undoubtedly be among them,” Sonu Nigam said of Ghoshal. Her editor at Eastern Eye, Asjad Nazir, dubbed her the “undisputed queen of playback singing.”
