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Arijit Singh Biography

Arijit Singh who can get you hooked up with his voice known for his versatile singing,started his career from "Fame Gurkul" to assisting "Pritam" and later becoming the most loved singer,Arijit Singh surely has come a long way,but do you know the biography of Arijit Singh,about his personal life, his most famous songs.Lets know here :-

Born :- 

Arijit Singh was born in 25th April 1987 (32 years) murshidabad,Jiaganj,His father was punjabi and mother is Bengali.Since childhood music was in his blood,Everyone from his family was already into music industry,her Nani (Maternal Grandmother) was trained in classic music mausi  (Aunt) used to sing,mama (Maternal Uncle) used to play tabla and mom was singer.He completed his schooling from Raja Bijay singh high school and college from "Sripat Singh College "completed his studies.He was decent in studies,but since start he was more inclined towards music.

During his childhood days only he used to get trained under big guns like Rajendra prasad hazari who trained him in indian classic music and dhirendra prasad hazari who trained him in tabla,virendra prasad hazari who trained him rabindra sangeet and pop music.

Early days of his career :- Arijit Singh

He was just 18 years old in 2005 when he came in Mumbai and he first participated in fame Gurukul show with judges like Javed Akhtar and Shankar Mahadev.

Although he couldn't make in top 5 list but got appreciated from music producers like shankar mahdevan who promised to work with him in future projects and also did fulfill his promise by later providing him break in "All 4 one aja nachle" gave him chance to sing.

Later Arijit Singh participated took part in "10 ke Dus Le Gaye Dil" and won the show.He also got chance to sing for a big label company but it took him long to settle in Indian music industry.

When Arijit Singh got in indian music industry,already big singers have shortage of work and arijit realized it soon and he changed his line and started assisting big singers like Shankar ahsan loy,Mithun,Pritam and Salim suleman and that was his only way to survive in mumbai.This thing also helped arijit later becoming a better musician as he also got to learn various aspects of music.

In his early project he has sung a song for "MadhuBala" tv show "Hum Hai Deewane" and sung a title track for a bengali tv show "Dadagiri" which was hosted by former indian captain "Saurav Ganguly".

First break through in Bollywood :-

In 2010 when pritam got signed for 16 movies contract to product music,during that time arijit used to assist him and used to sing rough cut of songs which later was noticed by pritam and he started giving Arijit a chance to sing for his movies.As soon as the songs released,Arijit started getting fame and slow slowly he got recognized.

He got his first break for singing for "Murder 2" song "Dil Sambhal Jaa Zara" in July 2011 under Mahesh Bhatt and later he sang "Raabta" in 2012.

Be it power packed,emotional or romantic in every song Arijit Singh gave his voice,people soon started recognizing his voice and got amused to his voice.

Such was the talent of Arijit Singh that singer and composer like A.R.Rahman asked him to sing a song for one of his moviues "Medhuvaagathaan" from Kochadaiiyaan titled "Dil Chaspiya" in 2014.

In his earlier days he used to work as music programmer with big composers,he liked this work so much so that he likes music composing more than singing.

In an interview he also said he sees more himself as a music producer than singer.

Do you know at one point of time arijit had made his mind to give up singing because of some situation while singing a song and do you know what is that situation?Arijit had tough time singing the title track of "Hamari Adhuri Kahanni" but fortunately he got support from Mohit Suri and Mahesh bhatt and it took him 2 hours to record this song which also later proved to be a biggest hit song.

Likes and Hobbies :-

• His favorite singers are "Kishore kumar,"Jagjit singh","Mehndi hasan,kk,"Ghulam ali"..
• His favorite actors are "Salman Khan" and "Manoj Bajpayee" and favorite actress are "Deepika Padukone" and "Priyanka Chopra".
• His likes to have "Maacher Jhol and mishti" ,"Alu seddo" and "Daal Bhaat" alot.
• His favorite footballers are "Lioner Messi and Thomas Muller" and from cricket he loves "Sachin Tendulkar","Saurav Ganguly" and "Jonty Rhodes".
• His favorite Football team is "Argentina and Brazil".

Personal Life and his marriage with ex-contestant of Fame Gurukal(Ruprekha Banerjee) :-

Very few people know,Arijit Singh was married to her co-contestant Ruprekha Banerjee of Fame Gurukul but for some reasons the marriage didn't last too long.

Later in 2014 he got married to his childhood friend Koyal Roy.Koyal  who was also married to someone before she got married to Arijit Singh and due to some complications in her marriage she got divorced and later got married to arijit.Koyal also has a daughter from her first marriage which is close to Arijit Singh.They both have 2 children.

Hobbies and Net Worth :-

His hobbies are Cycling,Reading,Playing Badminton and Writing and Making Documentaries.As per Starsunfolded his net worth is considered to be 7 million and he charges 13 Lakh/song.



NGO and movie Direction and his wish :-

Arijit Singh also owns a NGO "Let their be light" which works for his locality in Jiaganj and for BPL community which also proves he is also a kind-hearted person along with soulful singer.

One of  few thing that some people know that he has debut in direction from a Bengali movie "Bhalobasha Rojnamcha ".Its a compilation of 7 shorts films.

He also wishes to open a music school in future.

Controversy :-

Every person has some good experience as well as bad experience and one of the bad experience of Arijit Singh is assaulting a journalist in Sept.2013 of being asked details about his divorce with his first wife.
Another instance is writing a open letter on facebook to Salman Khan for requesting him to keep his song in his movie Sultan as the later recorded a song from another singer for his movie "Sultan" as he felt insulted in "2014 Star guild award".

Famous Songs which he sang :-

Although there are various songs for which he got recongnized however we have named few which has been the biggest hit till now :-

1. "Kyunki Tum Hi Ho"
2. "Re Kabira and Dilli Wali Girlfriend"
3. "Main Tenu Samjhawan"
4. "Sooraj Dooba Hai Yaaron" .
5. "Pal Bhar Theher Jao "
6. "Yeh Fitoor Mera"
7. "Zaalima"
8. "Aaj se Teri"
9. "Ruan Ruan“

Achievements (The main ones) :-

• He got lots of awards for his singing ,in 2014 for aashiqui 2 for "Tum hi ho" which was the blockbuster movie in terms of its music.
• In 2016 for "Roy" he got filmfare for "Suraj Dooba Hai" for best playback singer.
• He also got the "National Film Award" for the song "Binte Dil" from the movie "Padmaavat" for Best Playback Singer.