Sunidhi
Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan is one of the most popular Indian playback
singers and performers today, best known for her Hindi film songs
in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs in several other Indian
dialects and languages, such as; Oriya, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada,
Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese and Nepali, Urdu and
English, making her one of the most recorded voices in India today
with over 3000 studio recordings. Sunidhi Chauhan made her International
debut with the song Heartbeat (Indian Mix), a collaboration with
Enrique Iglesias. She has been awarded with prestigious national
awards on several occasions and has established herself as the
strongest live performer and singer in India to date. In 2014,
Sunidhi Chauhan also made it to the list of Asia's sexiest Women.
As per legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, Sunidhi
is Numero Uno as far as singing is concerned, ahead of her contemporaries
- "Sunidhi can sing all kinds of songs. And her voice and
style have all the elements that Gen- Now hankers after. Shreya
is good, but she is number two. Sunidhi is numero uno."
Award winning composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan
has stated on many occasions that Sunidhi is the Best female
singer live-performer in India today.[4]
Chauhan began to sing at the age of four[5]
and was discovered by a local TV anchor.[6] She won recognition
through a televised singing contest, Meri Awaz Suno, which she
won, and made her entrance into playback singing with the Hindi
film Shastra' at the tender age of 13'.
Her breakthrough was Ram Gopal Varma's film
Mast, in which she sang the hit song "Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi."[6]
She has been nominated for fourteen Filmfare Awards, winning
it on two occasions as well as a Filmfare RD Burman Award for
New Music Talent. She has won two Star Screen Awards, two IIFA
Awards and one Zee Cine Award.