Tum sa koi pyara koi masoom lyrics | Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik | Khuddaar | 1994

Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer who works predominantly in Hindi Cinema. She has been described in the media as one of the most prominent and successful playback singers in Bollywood. In her career spanning over four decades she has recorded over 20000 songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and received several accolades including two National Film Awards, two Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer from a record of thirty-six nominations.

Yagnik is one of the most prolific female playback singers, and has sung a large number of female solos in her Bollywood career. In her career spanning over four decades she has sung songs for more than thousand films and recorded over twenty thousand songs in different Indian languages. Twenty of her tracks feature in BBC’s list of top forty Bollywood soundtracks of all-time.

She is ranked No.1 on the YouTube’s Music Charts & Insights list of top global artists as of February 2022. She has been on the chart for 283 weeks with 300 million views.Yagnik was born in Kolkata on 20 March 1966 to a Gujarati family.Her father’s name is Dharmendra Shankar. Her mother Shubha was a singer of Indian classical music. In 1972 at age six, she started singing for Akashvani (All India Radio), Calcutta.

At age 10, her mother brought her to Mumbai as a child singer. She was advised to wait until her voice matured, but her mother remained determined. On a subsequent visit, Yagnik got a letter of introduction to Raj Kapoor from his Kolkata distributor. Kapoor heard the girl and sent her with a letter to noted music director Laxmikant. Impressed, Laxmikant gave her two alternatives – an immediate start as a dubbing artist or a later break as a singer; Shubha chose the latter for her daughter.Yagnik mentioned that she was a bright student but didn’t like studies.