Soham Chakrabarty is a playback singer who has sung many songs for Bollywood movies as well as for Bengali movies.
He was declared the winner of Zee's "Sa-re-ga-ma"(A musical competition) in the year 2000 (at the age of 20). Till now his big hit is ''"In Dino"'' song from the movie ''
Life in A... Metro'' and ''"Khudaya Khair"'' from the movie ''
Billu Barber
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''.
Early life
Soham is a Bengali, who started singing at the age of ten. He is trained in Hindustani classical music under the guidance of ''Pandit Jayendra Ghosh'', Ustad ''Mohammed Sagaruddin Khan'' saab and ''Sukhdev Sengupta''. Music directors
Bappi Lahiri
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and
O P Nayyar
Omkar Prasad Nayyar (16 January 1926 – 28 January 2007) was an Indian film music composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the most rhythmic and melodious music directors of the Hindi film indust ...
suggested to him that if he wanted to pursue singing as a career, he'd have to shift base to Mumbai. Since then he started living in
Mumbai
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. He came to Mumbai in 2002.
Career
He has been through a lot of struggle. He sang for ''Ada'' and ''Dil Samander'' (Garam Masala) ads though that was finally dubbed by
Sonu Nigam
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and
KK, respectively.
He has done several ad jingles like ''Emami'' and ''Mc Donalds'' with music director
Pritam
Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also known mononymously as Pritam, is an Indian composer, instrumentalist, guitarist, and singer. After working as an ad jingles composer, he debuted as a co-composer in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye. A ...
.
T-Series gave him his first break in 13 languages including Telugu, Tamil, Bhojpuri and Assamese. He has sung many Hindi and Bengali songs for Bollywood movies and Bengali movies, respectively. He has also sung devotional songs
with popular singers like Debashish, Preeti, Pinky,
Javed Ali
Javed Ali is an Indian playback singer who predominantly sings in Hindi. He has also sung in various Indian languages including Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Early life
Javed Ali was born Javed H ...
, Charanjeet Singh Sondhi, Kalpana, Priya Bhattacharya, etc.
Filmography
Hindi Songs
* Reference:
2006
2007
2009
2010
2012
Bengali songs
* Reference:
2002
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Accolades
References
External links
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Living people
Bengali singers
Bengali Hindus
Bollywood playback singers
Indian male playback singers
Singers from Kolkata
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa participants
Year of birth missing (living people)
Screen Awards winners