Pawni Pandey is an Indian singer who was a contestant on
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs, is a sub-series of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, it is a singing competition television series, which airs on Zee TV. Young children participate in this show and are judged on the basis of their voice quality, singing talent and ...
and advanced to fifth place with public votes. She made her debut in the singing reality show
Indian Idol
''Indian Idol'' is the Indian music competition television franchise based on the ''Pop Idol
''Pop Idol'' is a British music competition television series created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. The aim of the show w ...
. Post the reality show, she has sung a diverse number of songs in Bollywood films and is a live performer in both national and international shows.
She became more well known after her song "Laila Main Laila" from
Raees became hit. She received significant amount of Indian media coverage due to her much acclaimed singing of the song.
She then became a part of the Grand Jury for the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs 2017.
Early life and career
Pandey started singing from the age of 3 and at the age of 9 her parents recognised her talent
and at the age of 10, her family migrated from
Jaipur
Jaipur (; Hindi: ''Jayapura''), formerly Jeypore, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. , the city had a population of 3.1 million, making it the tenth most populous city in the country. Jaipur is also known ...
to
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
so that Pawni can pursue music seriously and get better opportunities. After moving to Mumbai, she participated in the "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs" where she was adjudged as the "Best Female Singer". However the music directors insisted her to give herself more time and get trained well as she was too young to make a career as a singer in
Hindi cinema.
She then got formally trained in
Indian classical music, and received special training in
western music from vocal dynamics trainer Thomas Appell from Los Angeles.
Her first major breakthrough came when she sung for the 2011 film
Bodyguard. However, according to her, the singing career progressed slowly.
Pandey considers
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar () (born as Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 06 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely considered to have been the greatest and most influential singers in India. Her con ...
as an inspiration, among the current generation of musicians her favourites are
Amaal Mallik
Amaal Mallik (born 16 June 1990) is an Indian music director, composer, singer, music producer, arranger, background scorer, performer and lyricist. He is the elder son of Daboo Malik and Jyothi Malik, and grandson of Sardar Malik. He debute ...
,
Sachin–Jigar
Sachin–Jigar is an Indian music composer duo consisting of Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya. They compose for Hindi and Gujarati language films. They have scored a number of successful soundtracks in recent times. Before working independently ...
and
Arijit Singh.
Discography
References
External links
Pawni's SifyMax Microsite
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Sa Re Ga Ma Pa participants
Living people
Singers from Mumbai
Indian women playback singers
Indian women pop singers
Musicians from Jaipur
Women musicians from Rajasthan
21st-century Indian women singers
21st-century Indian singers
Indian folk-pop singers
Year of birth missing (living people)