Artist Birtday :	20/10/1957 (Age 67)
Born In :	Kolkata, West Bengal, India India.
Occupation(s) :	Playback singer
Genres :	Filmi90's Musichindi & bengali classicKishore Kumar Classics

Kumar Sanu Biography:

Kedarnath Bhattacharaya (born 20 October 1957), better known as Kumar Sanu, is a leading Bollywood Indian Bengali playback singer. He is often popularly called as King of Melody. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood songs. Apart from Hindi, he has also sang in other languages including Marathi, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Oriya, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English, Spanish and his native language, Bengali, both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is holding the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer (1990-1994) along with Arijit Singh. For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. He is the first Indian playback singer who have been honoured by the United States state of Ohio, where the Mayor Michael R. Turner has declared 31st March as Kumar Sanu Day. He has also felicitated at the UK Houses of Parliament, along with Anuradha Paudwal for contribution in Indian Music and also social services by Indo-British All Party Parliamentary Group. As many as 25 of his tracks feature in BBC’s “Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time”.

Kumar Sanu Singer:

Early life:

Sanu’s father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, was a vocalist and composer. The two and Sanu’s elder sister lived in the Sinthee area of Calcutta (now Kolkata) near Biswanath Park.

Career:

Kumar Sanu started his playback career, as Sanu Bhattacharya. In 1986, he got Bangladeshi film Tin Kanya,[6] directed by Shibli Sadiq.[citation needed] Sanu had his first major Bollywood song in Hero Hiralal (1989).

In 1989, Jagjit Singh introduced Kumar Sanu to Kalyanji-Anandji in Mumbai. On their suggestion, he changed his name from “Kedarnath Bhattacharya” to “Kumar Sanu” because his voice and singing style were much influenced by Kishore Kumar. Sanu then relocated to Mumbai, where Kalyanji-Anandji gave him a chance to sing in the film Jaadugar.

For the 1990 film Aashiqui, music directors Nadeem-Shravan got Sanu to sing all but one of the songs. He won the first of his record five consecutive Filmfare Awards as Best Male Playback Singer. His next Filmfare Awards came for songs in the movies Saajan (1991), Deewana (1992), Baazigar (1993) and 1942: A Love Story (1994). He won 5 back to back Filmfare awards for singing, between 1990 and 1994.

Other work:

Kumar Sanu has composed music for various Indian films. Utthaan and Yeh Sunday Kyun Aata Hai are most remarkable among them. Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Anuradha Paudwal, Sapna Mukherjee, Alka Yagnik, Sonu Nigam, Sadhana Sargam, Sudesh Bhonsle, Shaan, Shreya Ghosal, Hema Sardesai, Sunidhi Chauhan and many more lent their voices for his music. “Yeh Kaisa Utthhan Hai” (sung by Asha Bhosle and Sonu Nigam in two different versions) and “Jisne Sapna Dekha” (sung by Sanu himself) are critically acclaimed. He sang the title song for the TV show Yeh Duniyan Gazab Ki, with singer Udit Narayan.

In 2017, Kumar Sanu along with Sadhna Sargam sung for the title track of 19s Story based TV Series “Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hain” and also appeared as a part for cameo in it. In 2019, he made a little singing for the Star Plus’s “Kulfi Kumarr Bajewala”.

Other than singing and composing music for films, he has also shown interest in producing films. In 2006, he produced his first Hindi film Utthaan. Currently, he is working with a fellow producer, Rakesh Bhhatia on a new project named Yeh Sunday Kyun Aata Hai. The film is based on the lives of four children who live in the streets of Mumbai and polish shoes at a train station in order to earn their livelihoods. The film will feature Mithun Chakraborty in a leading role. Recently, Sanu sang for a Bangladeshi Bengali film Hason Raja, which was directed by a UK-based filmmaker Ruhul Amin. This movie was never released. He also has composed for some Bengali movies; Amrita and Tobu Aporichito.

Kumar Sanu was on the panel of judges on Sony TV for Waar Parriwar, a reality show based on the bringing together of a singing gharana (family of singers) and on Zee Bangla TV in a music reality show called Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – Vishwa Sera. In 2012, he judged the Zee Bangla musical reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – Gane Gane Tomar Mone. At present, he is one of the judges on the Bengali version of the popular musical reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs.

Recently he recorded an album named Hum aur Tum. He also recorded a Spanish song for an album. He has also the record for the most recordings of songs in a single day, 28 songs. popularly he is known for melody king. He also made special appearances as an actor in the movies Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (1999) and Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015).

Sanu is a trustee and Brand Ambassador of Bishwa Bandhan, a foundation for cerebral palsy.

Kumar Sanu Singer opened a primary school, Kumar Sanu Vidya Niketan, for underprivileged children in Karol Bagh, Delhi. The students are given uniforms and books free of cost.

Work with other singers:

Kumar Sanu had multiple hit duet numbers with singers Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sadhana Sargam, Alisha Chinai, Sunidhi Chauhan, Sapna Mukherjee, Poornima, Sapna Awasthi, Shreya Ghoshal, Akriti Kakkar, Monali Thakur, Neha Kakkar, and others. Sanu also multiple duets with his daughter Shannon K, pop singer and songwriter, who has launched her career in the United States in 2017.

 

Song	Film	Other version sung by singer(s)
“O Priya Suno Priya”	Arjun Pandit (1999)	Hariharan
“Dil Ka Aalam”	Aashiqui (1990)	Nitin Mukesh
“Dil Ka Rishta”	Dil Ka Rishta (2002)	Udit Narayan and Babul Supriyo
“Kajal Kajal”	Sapoot (1996)	Amit Kumar
“Raja Ko Rani Se”	Akele Hum Akele Tum (1995)	Udit Narayan
“Pardesi Pardesi”	Raja Hindustani (1996)	Udit Narayan and Suresh Wadkar (sad version)
“Aakhon Main Base ho Tum”	Takkar (1995)	Abhijeet Bhattacharya
“Tum Dil Ki”	Dhadkan (2000)	Abhijeet Bhattacharya
“Dil Ne Yeh Kaha Hai Dilse”	Dhadkan (2000)	Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan
“Woh Aankh Hi Kya”	Khuddar (1994)	Sonu Nigam
“Jeeye Toh Jeeya Kyse”	Saajan (1991)	Pankaj Udhas and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
“Dil kya kare”	Dil Kya Kare (1999)	Udit Narayan
“Janam meri janam”	Mr. Bechara (1996)	Udit Narayan
“O Dil Tod Ke Hasti Ho Mera”	Bewafa Sanam (1995)	Udit Narayan
“Is Tarah aashiqui ka”	Imtihaan (1994)	Amit Kumar
“Dil Mera Churaya Kyu”	Akele Hum Akele Tum (1995)	Udit Narayan
“Cahaton Ka Silsila”	Shabd (2005)	Udit Narayan
“Jis Ghadi Tujhko”	Prithvi (1997 film)	Udit Narayan
“Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya”	Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya (1997)	Udit Narayan, Asha Bhosle and Amit Kumar

Politics:

Kumar Sanu joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004 in a ceremony headed by then Party President Venkaiah Naidu, but he later resigned to concentrate on singing. He rejoined BJP on 2 December 2014, inducted by Amit Shah.

Comeback:

Kumar Sanu returned to playback singing in 2012. He made a comeback at the urge of composers Sajid-Wajid. Sajid-Wajid gave him “Chammak Challo Chhail Chhabili” – Rowdy Rathore, a wedding song with Shreya Ghoshal. In 2015, Kumar Sanu replaced Lata Mangeshkar as the background voice of Yash Raj Films logo for the film Dum Laga Ke Haisha. This was the first time in YRF’s 60-year history that Lata Mangeshkar’s voice was replaced.

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