About Alka Yagnik
Being in the industry for more than three decades, renowned singer Alka Yagnik is a record seven-time winner of the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, as well as a two-time recipient of the National Film Award.
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- How are you connected with Tips?
- Back in the ’90s, music making was a more mechanical process compared to today’s digitisation. Do you think technology has made singing easier?
- Do you feel singers are also actors?
- You said you would record five songs daily. How did you take care of your voice?
- Do you remember recording a song with a bad voice?
- Have you ever thought of teaching music?
- Who was your biggest competitor in your musical career?
- Did you face rivalries or manipulations in your singing career?
- What do you enjoy about performing at concerts?
- How do you spend your time nowadays?
- How has Lata Mangeshkar influenced you as a singer?
- Why haven’t you done classical music concerts like your contemporaries such as Kavita Krishnamurthy did?
- Over the past 30 years you’ve sung under composers with varied styles. Whose compositions have challenged you the most?
- Which are some of the voices around that you like?
- Why don’t we hear you sing as much as we used to in Bollywood?
- It’s been ten years since you sang Ringa Ringa for the internationally-acclaimed Slumdog Millionnaire, collaborating with the Mozart of Madras. What was it like singing for him for an international project?
- You were born and brought up in Calcutta. Any memories of the city?
- What do you miss about your earlier days as a singer in films?
- You have been Bollywood playback for three decades now. Over the last 30 years, what are the challenges you have seen in Bollywood music?
- You’ve judged various TV shows; are you open to acting in one?
- Were you always determined to be a playback singer?
- Which composers have inspired you to do quality work?
- Share your experience with reality shows. Have they really unified the industry or distorted it further?
- What are your views on the remixes and remakes of old Bollywood songs that are used quite a lot today?
- You redefined how singers carry themselves. Before you, few female singers would pay attention to dressing. What’s your take on this?
- How were you as a student?
- How did music happen to you?
- आपने कल्याण-आनंद और लक्ष्मीकांत-प्यारेलाल के साथ काम किया है। उनकी कार्यशैली में क्या अंतर था?
- आपने क़यामत से क़यामत तक में “ग़ज़ब का इक दिन” गाया जो एक पंथ गीत बन गया। क्या इस गीत को रिकॉर्ड करने की कोई यादें है?
- आप और कुमार सानू उस समय में एक प्रसिद्ध गायक जोड़ी थे। आपके साथ काम करने का अनुभव कैसा रहा?
- फिल्म खलनायक में आपके गीत ‘चोली के पेचे’ ने विवादों को जन्म दिया। उसके बाद क्या हुआ था?
- आप अपने बचपन के दिनों में रेडियो पर लता मंगेशकर के गाने सुनकर बड़े हुए थे। जब आप उन्हें पहली बार व्यक्तिगत रूप से मिले तो कैसा महसूस हुआ?
- जब एक नया संगीत निर्देशक आपके द्वारा गाए जाने वाले गीत के लिए संपर्क करने के लिए आता है, तो उस गीत के लिए आप किन बातों का ध्यान रखते हे?
- क्या आप किसी भी क्षण को याद करते हैं जब आप एक गीत के लिए रिकॉर्डिंग करते समय भावनात्मक रूप से टूट गए थे?
- What was it like when you got the first National Award for singing?
- How do you maintain your voice?
- You’re known to be ruthlessly ambitious. What’s your take on this?
- Were you embarrassed about your early songs?
- You used to be the only choice for the heroine’s voice. How does it feel?
- Whose lyrics you have enjoyed the most during singing in your career?
- What is view on actors turning to singers?
- What do you like more, singing or judging reality shows?
- Which heroine do you think best fits your voice?
- Nowadays we are getting too many new voices, but not a ‘name’ like Lata, Asha or Alka. Why is that?
- How are you connected with Tips?
- Have you ever thought of teaching music?
- Who was your biggest competitor in your musical career?
- Did you face rivalries or manipulations in your singing career?
- How has Lata Mangeshkar influenced you as a singer?
- Over the past 30 years you’ve sung under composers with varied styles. Whose compositions have challenged you the most?
- You were born and brought up in Calcutta. Any memories of the city?
- What do you miss about your earlier days as a singer in films?
- You have been Bollywood playback for three decades now. Over the last 30 years, what are the challenges you have seen in Bollywood music?
- You’ve judged various TV shows; are you open to acting in one?
- Which composers have inspired you to do quality work?
- Share your experience with reality shows. Have they really unified the industry or distorted it further?
- How were you as a student?
- How did music happen to you?
- आपने क़यामत से क़यामत तक में “ग़ज़ब का इक दिन” गाया जो एक पंथ गीत बन गया। क्या इस गीत को रिकॉर्ड करने की कोई यादें है?
- फिल्म खलनायक में आपके गीत ‘चोली के पेचे’ ने विवादों को जन्म दिया। उसके बाद क्या हुआ था?
- आप अपने बचपन के दिनों में रेडियो पर लता मंगेशकर के गाने सुनकर बड़े हुए थे। जब आप उन्हें पहली बार व्यक्तिगत रूप से मिले तो कैसा महसूस हुआ?
- क्या आप किसी भी क्षण को याद करते हैं जब आप एक गीत के लिए रिकॉर्डिंग करते समय भावनात्मक रूप से टूट गए थे?
- You used to be the only choice for the heroine’s voice. How does it feel?
- What do you like more, singing or judging reality shows?
- Which heroine do you think best fits your voice?
- Back in the ’90s, music making was a more mechanical process compared to today’s digitisation. Do you think technology has made singing easier?
- Do you feel singers are also actors?
- You said you would record five songs daily. How did you take care of your voice?
- Do you remember recording a song with a bad voice?
- What do you enjoy about performing at concerts?
- Why haven’t you done classical music concerts like your contemporaries such as Kavita Krishnamurthy did?
- Why don’t we hear you sing as much as we used to in Bollywood?
- It’s been ten years since you sang Ringa Ringa for the internationally-acclaimed Slumdog Millionnaire, collaborating with the Mozart of Madras. What was it like singing for him for an international project?
- Were you always determined to be a playback singer?
- What are your views on the remixes and remakes of old Bollywood songs that are used quite a lot today?
- आप और कुमार सानू उस समय में एक प्रसिद्ध गायक जोड़ी थे। आपके साथ काम करने का अनुभव कैसा रहा?
- जब एक नया संगीत निर्देशक आपके द्वारा गाए जाने वाले गीत के लिए संपर्क करने के लिए आता है, तो उस गीत के लिए आप किन बातों का ध्यान रखते हे?
- What was it like when you got the first National Award for singing?
- How do you maintain your voice?
- Were you embarrassed about your early songs?
- Whose lyrics you have enjoyed the most during singing in your career?
- What is view on actors turning to singers?
