My NTS
Live now
1
04:00 - 05:00

Special guest shows from around the world.

2
04:00 - 05:00

Special guest shows from around the world.

Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 29 May 2017. Alka Yagnik's music has been featured on 18 episodes.

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. Yagnik began singing bhajans for Calcutta Radio at the age of six. She thought singing as a hobby but later thought about it as a profession. Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar (1979), followed by Laawaris (1981) with the hit song Mere Angene Mein, followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). She got her big break with the song Ek Do Teen from the film Tezaab (1988). The song turned her into a star overnight and went on to become a pop hit. She also received her first Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for the song.

Her voice has mostly been used for the younger generation of stars. She has done the playback singing for some of the biggest stars in the industry. Alka also sings four other languages like Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi.

read more

Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 29 May 2017. Alka Yagnik's music has been featured on 18 episodes.

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. Yagnik began singing bhajans for Calcutta Radio at the age of six. She thought singing as a hobby but later thought about it as a profession. Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar (1979), followed by Laawaris (1981) with the hit song Mere Angene Mein, followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). She got her big break with the song Ek Do Teen from the film Tezaab (1988). The song turned her into a star overnight and went on to become a pop hit. She also received her first Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for the song.

Her voice has mostly been used for the younger generation of stars. She has done the playback singing for some of the biggest stars in the industry. Alka also sings four other languages like Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi.

Original source Last.fm

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Bole Chudiyan
Kavita K. Subramaniam, Alka Yagnik, Amit Kumar, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam
Sony Music2011
Mera Dil Gaya
Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
Melody, Big B1996
Tip Tip Barsa Paani
Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan
Venus1994
Mere Mehboob Mere Sanam
Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
Crimson2002
Suraj Hua Madham (Oriental Twilight Mix)
Alka Yagnik, Sonu Nigam
Normal2002
Ek Do Teen Char
Alka Yagnik, Chorus
Super, T-Series1988
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
Sony Music2012
De De Tu Signal De De
Amit Kumar, Alka Yagnik
Venus1985
Kariye Na
Sukhvinder Singh, Alka Yagnik
Tips2006
Dekh Kabse
Alka Yagnik
T-Series, Super1985