Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik (born March 20 in Calcutta, Bengal, India) is an Indian
singer. She is born into a Gujarati family. Both her parents were well
versed in classical music.
She is classically trained, and has been one of the leading playback
singers in Bollywood since the late 1980’s. Alka began singing bhajans
for Calcutta Radio at the age of six. She thought singing as a hobby
but later thought about it as a profession. She came to Mumbai and
sang for the film Laawaris (1981) with the song Mere Angene Mein. She
got her big break with the song Ek Do Teen from the film Tezaab
(1988). The song turned her into a star overnight and went on to
become a pop hit. She also received her first Filmfare Best Female
Playback Award for the song.
Her voice has mostly been used for the younger generation of stars.
She has done the playback singing for some of the biggest stars in the
industry. Alka also sings for other languages like Marathi, Bengali
and Punjabi.