Further in 2012, on occasion of 100 years of Hindi Cinema, her song "Taal Se Taal Mila" from the movie Taal was voted as the best song of the century in a poll conducted by DesiMartini, Hindustan Times and Fever 104. In 2012 she along with Sonu Nigam sang a song 'Shiksha Ka Suraj' as part of National Literacy Mission of India for which she was felicitated by Union Minister For Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal. She has also been performing in live concerts around the world. In addition to this, her song "Chamma Chamma" from China Gate was featured in the song "Hindi Sad Diamonds" from the soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge!. She had recently judged Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs Season 5 as a Maha Guru (also in previous 2 seasons). Alka has also been the judge of various Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge shows, and Star Voice of India, both singing competition shows, in which children or adults of various age groups compete with one another to win the award for best vocals. She has also rendered the Hanuman Chalisa and various devotional songs.Īlka shares the title with Asha Bhosle for the greatest number of Filmfare Awards won (7) by a single female playback singer. She has such as "Tum Aaye" and "Shairana" in which she worked in close collaboration with award-winning lyricist Javed Akhtar and singer Hariharan. She has also sung many duets with Abhijeet, Hariharan, Vinod Rathod, Sonu Nigam and Shaan.
In a career spanning over three decades she has sung many duet songs, most of these have been with Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan. Keeravani, Sajid–Wajid, Bappi Lahiri, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sandesh Shandilya and many others. Rahman, Anand–Milind, Himesh Reshammiya, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Ismail Darbar, Aadesh Shrivastava, Viju Shah, M. She has worked with Indian composers such as Kalyanji–Anandji, Rahul Dev Burman, Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Rajesh Roshan, Nadeem–Shravan, Jatin–Lalit, Anu Malik, A. She has sung in many languages other than Urdu-Hindi, including Gujarati, Avadhi, Odia, Assamese, Meitei, Rajasthani, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, English and Malayalam except Kannada. The song won her first out of seven Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer. She got her big break with the song "Ek Do Teen" from the film Tezaab (1988). Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980), followed by Laawaris (1981) with the song "Mere Angane Mein", followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). And also in lucknowĪlka is classically trained and began singing bhajans for Akashvani (All India Radio), Calcutta at the age of six. Impressed, Laxmikant gave her two alternatives - an immediate start as a dubbing artist or a later break as a singer Shubha chose the latter for her daughter. Kapoor heard the girl and sent her with a letter to noted music director Laxmikant. On a subsequent visit, Alka got a letter of introduction to Raj Kapoor from his Kolkata distributor. She was advised to wait until her voice matured, but her mother remained determined. At age 10, her mother brought her to Mumbai as a child singer.
In 1972 at age six, she started singing for Akashvani (All India Radio), Calcutta. She attended the Modern High School for Girls. Her mother Shubha Yagnik was a singer of Indian classical music. Alka Yagnik was born in Kolkata on 20 March 1966 to Gujarati Hindu Parents.
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