Alka Yagnik

Indian playback singer

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Born: 1966-03-20

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Country: IN
Active from: 1966-03-20

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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

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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".