WA. R. Rahman is an Indian composer, singer and songwriter. Described by Time as one of the most popular composers, he has provided musical scores predominantly for Tamil and Hindi films apart from a few films in other regional film industries of India and international productions. Rahman started his career by composing musical scores for documentaries, advertisements and Television channels. He made his debut as a film composer through Roja after being approached by its director Mani Ratnam. The soundtrack became popular upon release, which led to him winning the National Film Award for Best Music Direction at the 41st National Film Awards, the first time for a debutant. As of 2018, Rahman has garnered six National Film Awards, 15 Filmfare Awards and 17 Filmfare Awards South, a record for an Indian composer.
WAsha Bhosle is a legendary Indian singer who has recorded most songs in history. This is a complete list of awards and recognitions won by Asha Bhosle.
WMohit Chauhan is an Indian playback singer. Best known as a singer in Hindi films, he also sings in other Indian languages including Pahari, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi and Telgu.
WSunidhi Chauhan is an Indian singer. Chauhan made her career debut at the age of 13, with the film Shastra. She rose to prominence after recording "Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi" from Mast (1999), ultimately winning the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent and was nominated as the Best Female Playback Singer. Her second breakthrough was released in 2000, with the song "Mehboob Mere" which resulted in receiving another Filmfare nomination. Chauhan received her third Filmfare nomination with the energetic "Dhoom Machale" (2004) followed by two more nominations during the next year for "Kaisi Paheli" and "Deedar De".
WPriyanka Chopra is an Indian actress who has received several awards and nominations including two National Film Award, five Filmfare Awards, eight Producers Guild Film Awards, eight Screen Awards, six IIFA Awards, and two People's Choice Awards. In 2000, she participated in the Femina Miss India contest, where she finished second, winning the Femina Miss India World title. She then entered the Miss World pageant and was crowned Miss World 2000, becoming the fifth Indian to win the contest. Chopra made her Bollywood film debut with a supporting role in the 2003 spy thriller The Hero, which earned her the Stardust Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, her performance in the romantic musical Andaaz won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the same ceremony. For her portrayal of a seductress in the romantic thriller Aitraaz, Chopra won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role and received her second nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, she was nominated for the IIFA Award for Best Actress for the romantic comedy Mujhse Shaadi Karogi.
WShreya Ghoshal is an Indian playback singer. Best known as a singer in Hindi, she also sings in other Indian languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Nepali, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Urdu, Tulu etc. and has established herself as a leading playback singer of Indian cinema.
WAmrinder Gill is an Indian actor known for his work in Punjabi cinema and Punjabi music. In 2016, Gill won his first PTC Award for Best Actor for Angrej (2015), followed by Love Punjab (2016) and Lahoriye (2018).
WIlaiyaraaja is an Indian film composer and instrumentalist who has worked in over 1000 films in various languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, English, Marathi, Sanskrit, Punjabi with majority of his works in the Tamil language and widely regarded as the greatest Indian music composer of all-time by various critics and experts.
WK. J. Yesudas is a multilingual singer, singing Indian classical music, devotional, light music, and Film songs. His commercially published recordings span multiple genres. This page list his Major Awards, Honors and Titles
WKrishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer and carnatic musician from Kerala. Chithra also sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music.
WShweta Mohan is an Indian playback singer. She has received four Filmfare Awards South for Best Female Playback Singer, one Kerala State Film Awards and one Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She has recorded songs for film music and albums in all the four South Indian languages namely, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada along with the Hindi language and has established herself as a leading playback singer of South Indian cinema. Some of her inspirations are Sujatha Mohan, Shreya Ghoshal, Alka Yagnik and K.S. Chitra.
WThis is an incomplete list of awards, honours and recognitions of Lata Mangeshkar.
WMohammed Rafi was an Indian playback singer and widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Rafi was notable for his voice, versatility and range; his songs were varied from fast peppy numbers to patriotic songs, sad numbers to highly romantic songs, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans to classical songs. He was known for his ability to mould his voice to the persona and style of an actor, lip-syncing the song on screen in the movie. He received six Filmfare Awards and one National Film Award. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. In 2001, Rafi was honoured with the "Best Singer of the Millennium" title by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine. In 2013, Rafi was voted for the Greatest Voice in Hindi Cinema in the CNN-IBN's poll.
WThis is a list of awards and nominations received by Himesh Reshammiya.
WS. P. Balasubrahmanyam was an Indian playback singer, who was well known for his work in South Indian films. Making his playback singing debut in 1966 through the Telugu film Sri Sri Sri Maryada Ramanna, he sung over 40,000 songs in multiple languages of India. During his career he won six National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards South and one Filmfare Award.
WThis article details the awards and nominations awarded to Indian film composer trio Shankar Ehsaan Loy.
WIndian singer Arijit Singh has received most awards and nominations for the song "Tum Hi Ho" in Aashiqui 2 (2013). He received 9 awards from 10 nominations for this song.
WThis is a list of awards and nominations received by Vidyasagar, an Indian composer, musician and singer who predominantly works in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi film industries.