About Arijit Singh

Arijit Singh (born 25 April 1987)^[1] is an Indian playback singer and music programmer from West Bengal, India. He sings Bengali and Hindi songs. He is regarded as one of the most successful playback singers in present times, and is often called a Singer whom every man loves".^[4] Arijit is a versatile playback singer and has been referred to as the "King of Playback singing".^{[citation needed]} He is praised for his ability of giving soul to lyrics, and "life to a song" He is known for being shy and emotional and stays away from limelight despite huge fame and popularity that he enjoys in India.^[5]

He has also sung in Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Assamese and Kannada languages. Born in Jiaganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal, his career began upon participating in the reality show Fame Gurukul (2005), in which he lost at the finals. After winning another reality show called 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil, Singh built a recording setup of his own, beginning his journey with music programming. Subsequently, he went in to become an assistant music programmer to Pritam Chakraborty, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal-Shekharand Mithoon.^{[citation needed]}

Singh became well-known with the release of "Tum Hi Ho" from Aashiqui 2 (2013).^[6][7] He was given the Best Male Playback Singer award for the song, in 59th Filmfare Awards. In 2014, he collaborated with Jeet Gannguli—for whom he performed the rest of his tracks inAashiqui 2 —for CityLights, where he rendered the romantic version of the song "Muskurane", which fetched him most nominations in the year. Gannguli composed "Suno Na Sangemarmar" and Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy's Sufi song, "Mast Magan" garnered him another two nominations in 60th Filmfare Awards.