Kumar Sanu
Kumar Sanu | |
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Kumar Sanu in Indian Telly Awards | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kedarnath Bhattacharya |
| Also known as | Melody King of Bollywood |
| Born | 20 October 1957 Calcutta, West Bengal, India (present-day Kolkata) |
| Genres | |
| Occupation | Playback singer |
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| Years active | 1983–present |
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| Spouses | Rita Dutta
(m. 1986; div. 1994)Saloni Bhattacharya (m. 2001) |
| Children | Shannon K, Annabelle K |
Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is a leading Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi film songs. He is widely regarded as the Melody King of Bollywood. Shared with Arijit Singh, he holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1991 to 1995. He also holds the Guinness World Record for recording the maximum number of songs (28 songs) in a single day since 1993.Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Manipuri, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali.
For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. Many of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".