![]() ![]() She is the fifth most prolific Bollywood singer of all time after Asha Bhosle (7886 songs), Lata Mangeshkar (5596 songs), Mohammed Rafi (4,774 songs) and Kishore Kumar (2,707 songs). She has sung 2,486 Hindi songs in 1,114 films. She has also been involved in various projects pertaining to empowerment of the girl child. She has also been performing in live concerts around the world. ![]() Her song "Chamma Chamma" from China Gate was featured in the song "Hindi Sad Diamonds" from the soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge!. She has also sung many duets with Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet, Hariharan, Vinod Rathod, and Shaan. In a career spanning over three decades she has sung many duet songs, most of these have been with Kumar Sanu and then udit Narayan. Alka shares the title with Asha Bhosle for the greatest number of Filmfare Awards won (7) by a single female playback singer. The song won her first out of seven Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer. She got her big break with the song "Ek Do Teen" from the film Tezaab (1988). ![]() Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980), followed by Laawaris (1981) with the song "Mere Angane Mein", followed by the film Hamari Bahu Alka (1982). Alka is classically trained and began singing bhajans for Akashvani (All India Radio), Calcutta at the age of six. Further, as many as twenty of her tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time" review. She is a record seven-time winner from a record of 36 nominations of the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and a two-time recipient of the National Film Award. She is noted in Indian cinema for a career spanning over three decades. Alka Yagnik is an Indian playback singer. ![]()
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