Alka Yagnik: She is a record seven-time winner from a record of 36 nominations of the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and one of the evergreen playback singers Bollywood has. The singer is classically trained and began singing bhajans for Akashvani (All India Radio), Calcutta when she was only six years old.Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980), followed by Laawaris (1981) with the song “Mere Angane Mein” after which she got her first break with the song “Ek Do Teen” in the movie Tezaab which got her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer. She has sung in many languages other than Urdu Hindi,including Gujarati, Avadhi, Odia, Assamese, Manipuri, Nepali, Rajasthani,Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, English and Malayalam.
