Shreya Ghoshal is an Indian playback singer. Ghoshal was born on 12 March 1984 to a Bengali Hindu family in Baharampur, Murshidabad district, West Bengal. At the age of four, she started learning music. At the age of six, she started with her formal training in classical music. At the age of sixteen, she was noticed by film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she entered and won the television singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Following that, she made her Bollywood playback singing debut with Bhansali’s romantic drama Devdas (2002) for which she received a National Award and a Filmfare Award. She has received four National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards, five for Best Female Playback, one RD Burman Award for New Music Talent in 2003 and eight Filmfare Awards South (one for Telugu, two for Kannada, two for Tamil and three for Malayalam) to date. She has recorded songs for film music in various Indian languages, and has established herself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema. Ghoshal aspired to become a playback singer from a young age.
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