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Alka Yagnik is an Indian female singer, composer, and film actor born in Kolkata in 1966. She began her work period in 1980 and sings in Hindi. Her musical genres include bhajan, Indian classical music, filmi music, Indian pop, bollywood, and ghazal. She uses her voice as an instrument and follows Hinduism.
Yagnik has received Filmfare Awards. She is recognized within the Indian music scene, with tags associated with her work including bollywood, Hindi, Indian, india, and world. Her name in her native language is अलका याज्ञनिक.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- India
- Active from
- 1966
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 144,312
- Total plays
- 1,744,171
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Alka Yagnik (अलका याज्ञिक) is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best-known Hindi playback singers of all time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award and has done playback singing for over 700 Indian films. She was born into a Gujarati family. Both her parents were well versed in classical music. She is classically trained, and has been one of the leading playback singers in Bollywood since the late 1980's. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alka+Yagnik">Re
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1966-03-20 ) 20 March 1966 (age 60) , Kolkata , West Bengal, India
- Occupation
- Playback singer
- Spouse
- Neeraj Kapoor ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 )
- Awards
- Full list
- Honours
- Padma Bhushan (2026)
- Genres
- Filmi
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Years active
- 1980–present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Kolkata
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- Hindi
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Award
- Filmfare Awards
- Genre
- Indian folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.alkayagnik.co.in
- Image
- Alka Yagnik.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1966-03-20
- Commons category
- Alka Yagnik
- name in native language
- Alka Yagnik
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- social media followers
- 50449
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Encyclopedic overview
Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer who worked predominantly in Hindi cinema from 1980s to mid 2010s. One of the most prominent singers of 1990s era Bollywood, she has received several accolades including two National Film Awards, two Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards and seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer from thirty-seven nominations. She was honoured with Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for her contribution to Indian music and playback singing in 2026.
Yagnik has sung maximum female solo songs in her Bollywood career along with Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. Several of her soundtracks were included in the BBC "Top 40 Bollywood soundtracks of all time".
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