- Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (Hindi: IPA: [/mitab btn/], born Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan on October 11, 1942), is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s and has since become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema.
- Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar is the melody Queen of India. Lata Mangeshkar has ruled over the hearts of millions of music lovers throughout the world for the last forty years by the magic of her melodious voice. She was born on 29th September 1928, in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) in a family of musicians. She took to singing at the age of 13. She has sung songs based on classical Indian music and ragas, bhajans or devotional songs, romantic and melancholic songs and so on.
- Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu, born on January 7 1979 is a Bollywood actress and supermodel. She is the winner of the Ford Supermodel of the World competition and now works in mainstream Bollywood films. She is continually listed as one of Asia's sexiest women, along with fellow stars Mallika Sherawat and Aishwarya Rai.
- Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar (August 4, 1929 - October 13, 1987) was an Indian film playback singer and comic actor. He also achieved notable successes as a lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter. Kishore Kumar sung in many Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali (his mother tongue), Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya.
- Anu Malik
Anu Malik is a music director in the Hindi (or Bollywood) film industry. He has won the National Award for his work in "Refugee". His song "Chamma Chamma" from "China Gate" was used in the English movie "Moulin Rouge", starring Nicole Kidman, and "Chunari Chunari" from "Biwi No.1" was used in "Monsoon Wedding". With his work in crossover films like "Bride and Prejudice", …
- Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider repertoire. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over 950 Bollywood movies and sold many records. She is the sister of the equally accomplished Lata Mangeshkar. Asha Bhosle is considered as one of the most versatile of South Asian singers — her range of songs includes film music, …
- Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan Jha, popularly known as Udit Narayan is a playback singer in the Hindi, Tamil and Nepali cinema. He was born in a village called Bharadah in Saptari, Nepal.
- Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik (born March 20 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India) is an Indian singer. She is born into a Gujarati family. Both her parents were well versed in classical music. She is classically trained, and has been the leading playback singers in Bollywood since the late 1980's. Alka began singing bhajans for Calcutta Radio at the age of six. She thought singing as a hobby but later thought about it as a profession.
- Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Bollywood songs.
- Kumar Sanu
Kumar Sanu is a leading playback singer of Bollywood.
- Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi an Indian playback singer. He has sung in many Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi and Telugu, but he is chiefly remembered for his songs from Hindi cinema (also known as Bollywood). His songs are widely popular in the Indian subcontinent.
- Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty (June 16, 1950) (born Gouranga Chakraborty) is an award-winning Indian film actor as well as social activist. In his heyday, he had earned a huge fan following as a 'dancing star', and was one of the most popular actors of the 80s. Altogether he has appeared in more than 200 Bollywood films as well as some Bengali and Bhojpuri films. He is also the owner of chain hotels, known as "Monarch Hotels".
- Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher, born March 7, 1955, is an actor in Hindi films in India. He has acted in nearly 200 Bollywood films, and several English films.
- Akshaye Khanna
Akshaye Khanna (born March 28, 1975 in Mumbai, India) is a popular Bollywood actor.
- Sukhwinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh is an Indian singer, most famous as a Bollywood playback singer. His greatest success is arguably the song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for Mani Ratnam's 1998 film "Dil Se", composed by A. R. Rahman, for which he won the 'Best Male Playback' award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards in India. Sukhwinder Singh is a leading Bollywood singer. He first performed on stage at the age of 7 or 8, singing the Lata number "Sa re ga ma pa, pa, pa, ga ma re, …
- Kunal Ganjawala
Kunal Ganjawala is an Indian singer, known primarily for his work as a Bollywood playback singer. His breakthrough hit, "Bheegey Hont" from the film "Murder", won the 2005 Zee Cine Award for Best Playback Singer (male).
- Manna Dey
Prabodh Chandra Dey, better known by his nickname Manna Dey, is one of the greatest playback singer in Hindi films and other vernacular Indian films, especially Bengali. In fact, arguably he is the greatest trained male singer of bollywood.
- Nitin Mukesh
Nitin Mukesh, based in India, is the son of the popular Bollywood playback singer Mukesh. Nitin Mukesh himself has lent his voice as a playback singer to many Hindi film songs and also sings bhajans.
- Jagjit Singh
Jagjit Singh(Hindi: जगजीत सिंह, Punjabi: ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Urdu: جگجیت سنگھ) (February 8, 1941 -) is an Indian ghazal singer. He sings in Hindi-Urdu and Punjabi languages.
- Nana Patekar
Nana Patekar (born 1 January, 1951 as Vishwanath Patekar) is a highly acclaimed Indian actor and filmmaker.
- Boman Irani
Boman Irani (born in 1962, Mumbai, Maharashtra) is an Indian film and theatre actor.
- K. J. Yesudas
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (usually referred to as Dr. K. J. Yesudas or Jesudas, Malayalam: കാട്ടശ്ശേരി ജോസഫ് യേശുദാസ് , also nicknamed "Gana Gandharvan") (born January 10, 1940) is an eminent Indian classical musician and leading playback singer of film songs in many Indian languages.
- Om Puri
Om Puri, OBE (Honorary) (born October 18, 1950 in Ambala, Haryana, India) is an Indian actor who has appeared in both mainstream Bollywood films as well as art films. His credits also include appearances in British and American films. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India. He was also an alumnus of the 1973 batch of National School of Drama where Naseeruddin Shah was a co-student.
- Geeta Dutt
Geeta Dutt was an Indian playback singer.
- Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in many Indian languages. Sadhna Sargam is from a Maharashtran family. She was trained in Indian classical music by her mother at her early childhood and then by Pandit Jasraj by latter on. She is famous for her live concerts and for her live performances.
- Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher is an Indian singer of popular sufi music. He has recently risen to fame with a series of hits. He has released music with his band, named Kailasa. The band includes Mumbai musician-brothers Naresh & Paresh who were earlier associated with Bombay Black. Kailash Kher is currently a sensation in the playback world of Bollywood. He hit the limelight with the smashhit Allah Ke Bande, …
- Mahendra Kapoor
Mahendra Kapoor (born January 9 1934) is an Indian playback singer.
- P. Susheela
Pulapaka Susheela (born 1935) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded several songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, language and Kannada. Her career spanned about four decades. Susheela was born in 1935 in Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh. In 1950, music director Nageswara Rao was looking for new talent and scouted for new singers at All India Radio. Of the five people referred, Susheela was selected and Susheela sang her first song, …
- S. Janaki
S. Janaki (born April 23, 1938) is an Indian playback singer. She has sung in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. Janaki is also a lyricist and a music composer. A devotee of Lord Krishna and Shirdi Sai Baba, she spends a lot of time praying and has also released devotional music cassettes on Meera.
- Gulshan Grover
Gulshan Grover (born 21 September 1955) is an Indian actor.He was graduated from delhi unversity.There was fascinated by the boys of rich family and he planned to do something which can make him popular.So he was not concern to be an actor of lead role but he was wowed to be popular so what came first for him he accepted. He is famous for his role as a villain in many movies. He has also starred in some Hollywood movies.
- Sonu Niigaam
Sonu Nigam (born 30 July, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana, India) is a playback singer whose songs have been featured in numerous Bollywood movies. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums. He changed the spelling of his last name from Nigam to Niigaam to reflect an auspicious number in astrology .
- Parveen Babi
Parveen Babi (April 4 1949 - January 20, 2005) was an Indian actress.
- Daler Mehndi
Daler Mehndi ('), born August 18, 1967, is a bhangra/pop singer from India. Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in India. Since 1995 he has recorded several highly successful albums in India, and also sung in several Bollywood movies. His international popularity has grown in recent years allowing him to tour the United States.
- Noor Jehan
Noor Jahaan (Urdu: نور جہاں was a famous South Asian singer and actress. She is revered in Pakistan by her title Malikah-e-Tarannum (Queen of Melody) (Urdu: ملکہ ترنم) and is considered to be one of the greatest singers to have come from the Indian Subcontinent. Noor Jahaan has appropriately sung around 10,000 songs in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi films in both India and Pakistan.
- Rahul Dev Burman
Rahul Dev Burman, also known as, R. D. Burman, Pancham and Pancham da, (June 27, 1939 - January 4, 1994) was a music composer in Bollywood films. He was the son of singer and music composer Sachin Dev Burman and the second husband of playback singer Asha Bhosle.
- Anuradha Paudwal
Anuradha Paudwal is an Indian playback singer in Bollywood. Anuradha Paudwal's career started with the film Abhimaan starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. Anuradha Paudwal was a student of Xavier's college who participated in the college's cultural programmes, but she did not have a background of film music. She married Arun Paudwal who was the music arranger of S. D. Burman.
- Aditya Narayan
Aditya Udit Narayan or commonly known as Aditya Narayan is an Indian actor, singer and dancer. He was born on August 6 1987. He is the son of Deepa Narayan and the popular Indian playback singer, Udit Narayan. Narayan is currently hosting Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007, replacing Shaan who previously hosted the series. Narayan is of Nepali ancestry. His father, Udit Narayan, came to India in 1979 to study music from Nepal.
- Shamshad Begum
Shamshad Begum (born April 14, 1919) is an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the film industry. Shamshad Begum was born in Amritsar, Punjab. She was a big fan of K.L. Saigal and watched "Devdas" 14 times. She earned 15 rs per song and was awarded 5000 on the completion of the contract on jenaphone. She started her radio career on Peshawar Radio and did work in Lahore, Dehli etc. She made her debut on radio in Lahore on December 16, …
- Suresh Wadkar
Suresh Wadkar is a one of leading Bollywood Film's playback singer in India.
- Vinod Rathod
Vinod Rathod, the son of singer Pandit Chhaturbhuj Rathod, is a Bollywood playback singer. He has sung in numerous popular Bollywood films including Chal Mere Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Mission Kashmir and Baazigar.