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Alka Yagnik dazzles Toronto!

On October 28^th, hundreds of Indo-Torontonians, gathered at Rose Theatre, Brampton to witness one of the finest performances by Bollywood’s best-known playback singer, Alka Yagnik. The show was brought to us by Black Diamond Entertainment who also encouraged and promoted several local artistes also at the event.

Alka Yagnik, alongwith Chetan Rana (K-is Kishore show fame) sang some excellent solos as well as duets to have the audience enthralled and entertained. The famous ‘Ek do Teen’ and ‘QSQT’ singer Alka  crooned several of her famous Bollywood fast numbers as well as soulful melodies, much to the delight of the audience.

Among the best-known playback singers of Hindi cinema, Alka is a record seven-time winner of the Fimfare Award for Best Female Playback singer  from a record of 35 nominations, a two-time recipient of the National Film Award  as well as several other music awards listed below. She has sung over 17,000 songs in her career and  many of her tracks have featured in BBC’s “Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time” review.

Alka is classically trained and has been one of the leading playback singers in Bollywood since the late 1980s. She began singing bhajans for Akashvani at all India Radio, Calcutta from the age of six. Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1979), followed byLawaris (1981) with the hit song “Mere Angene Mein”, followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). She got her big break with the song “Ek Do Teen” from the filmTezaab (1988).

The talented singer  has sung in most of the Indian languages and has lent her voice for three generation of actresses ranging from Hema Malini, Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Rakhi Gulzar to Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Raveen Tandon, Manish Koirala, Juhi Chawla, Kajol, Tabu, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta, Karishma Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai to Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka chopra, Sushmita Sen, Bipasha Basu, Katrian Kaif and several others.

Looking forward to many more concerts from you, Alkaji!!