I dedicate this post to the most versatile Indian playback singer, Shreya Goshal who has the most talented voice, which she never fails to flaunt it in all her songs. Be in tamil, hindi or anyother language, she simply rules with the most sensational voice. Today when I try to look back, when was the first time I started to like her voice, it was her song “gundu malli” from the movie “solla marandha kadhai” which was composed by legend music director Ilayaraja.The song melodiously starts off with her cute delicate voice, and soon makes the listener to get into the groove while she dominates the song. And as far as I have noticed she is the only singer who never fails to pronounce the tamil lyrics properly.
Shreya Ghoshal, born March 12, 1984 in Rawatbhata, Rajasthan performed several songs in Bollywood, regional films and, she has also sung songs in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu.
From the age of four Ghoshal accompanied her mother on the harmonium. Her parents enrolled her for formal training in Hindustani classical music in Kota with Maheshchandra Sharma. As a child she won the children's special episode of the Sa Re Ga Ma contest on Zee TV. Kalyanji, who also judged the competition, convinced her parents to move to Mumbai. She trained with him for 18 months and continued her classical music training with Mukta Bhide in Mumbai. She studied at Atomic Energy Central Schools (AECS) at Kota and Anushaktinagar (Mumbai). For Graduation she had enrolled herself at SIES College in their Arts Stream.
This National Award winner caught the attention of film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she participated in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for a second time, this time competing against adults. In 2000, He offered her the opportunity to be the voice of Paro, the lead female character of his film Devdas, who was to be portrayed by Aishwarya Rai. Shreya sang five songs in the film Her First song record with king of playback singer Udit Narayan for ‘Bari Piya’. Moviegoers from across the world heard Ghoshal’s singing voice pictured on Aishwarya Rai, and she quickly became one of the top female playback singers in Bollywood, alongside Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan, Sadhana Sargam and Kavita Krishnamurthy. Since Devdas, she has gone on to sing for many more actresses under the baton of various music directors, including M.M. Kreem, for whom she sang “Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai”, a sensuous number pictured on Bipasha Basu in Jism. She won many awards (8 Awards in a single year including a National Award)
She has since gone on to sing for various music directors including Ilayaraja, A.R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Harris Jayaraj, Anu Malik, Himesh Reshammiya, M.M. Kreem, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Pritam, Vishal-Shekhar and Mano Murthy. Today Ghoshal is an established industry singer and has recorded in various regional languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Meitei, Marathi, and Bhojpuri.
Some of her Rocking Tracks:Tamil:
Unnai vida -virumaandi
Munbe va -Jillunu oru kadhal
Ninaithu ninaithu -7G rainbow colony
Maja Maja -Jillunu oru kadhal
Uruguthey -veyil
Venmegam -Guru
Ayaiyaoo -Paruthiveeran
Ilangaathu -Pithamagan
Hindi:
Mein agar kahoon -Om shanti Om
Koi tumsa nahin -krishh
Pal pal har pal -lage raho munnabhai
Dholna -hey baby
Tere naina -Chandi chowk to china
Khabar nahi -Dostana
U, me aur hum -U, me aur Hum
Bairi piya -Devdas
Ahista ahista -Bachna ae haseeno
Mere Dholna -Bhool Bulaiya
Jadoo hai nasha -Jism
Kaise mujhe -Ghajini
Yeh ishq kya hai -jab we met
Ishq hua -Aaja nachle

Good post!!!! Such a great singer. One of my all time fav singers. Love her Mesmerizing voice...
ReplyDeleteAs Latha Mangeshkar says "There is something in this girl's voice which enthralls me"... Yep.... :D
infact, i was about to title this post as "mesmerizing shreya",but then i have seen this word many times in ur blog..:)) so changed my mind,she is a one of a kind.
ReplyDeletenice one to read!!!!me too a great fan of shreya goshal...she has got a beautiful voice and very pretty looking girl..
ReplyDeleteThanks Zephyr girl.
ReplyDeleteha ha...
ReplyDeletei'm planning to copyright that word... what do u say... lol
Well... Sensational Shreya rhymes better than Mesmerizing Shreya... good language, cynthia!
ReplyDeleteMesmerizing or Sensational, She is one helluva singer with a sweet voice!
Three cheers to her ! Salut !
Thanks Mariner for ur comments.
ReplyDeletevinith,u seriously need to copyright lot of words, like diction,interlude,prelude...goes on..heheh..
Her voice is so, so good; she so, so beautiful. May God bestow her with all happiness and good songs and a peaceful life
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