Shalmali Kholgade

Shalmali Kholgade is an Indian playback singer, who predominantly sings for Hindi language films. Shalmali has also sung in other Indian languages like :-  Marathi, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil. She Started performing in very young age and has had her tutelage in music from the age of 8 years under her mother Uma Kholgade an Indian classical singer and theatre personality. She later continued her music education under Shubhada Paradkar and has also recently been accepted by the Los Angeles College of Music.She Started her debut as a lead vocalist in Bollywood playback singing with the song Pareshaan from film Ishaqzaade under the music of Amit Trivedi.  For Pareshaan she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer among several other awards. Shalmali other two songs Daaru Desi from Cocktail and Aga Bai from Aiyyaa, both sparkle hits. Her first track, Lat Lag Gayee from the movie Race 2 met with enormous, commercial appreciation. After this she received ateriorly critical and commercial success with the track Balam Pichkari from the movie Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. For this song she received many nominations including her second Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer nomination. Shalmali also sang the title track for Shuddh Desi Romance, Besharmi Ki Height and Shanivar Raati for Main Tera Hero,D Se Dance for Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania and Shayarana for Daawat-E-Ishq, which got her more critical appreciation. She also received compliment for the song Baby Ko Bass Pasand Hai from the sports drama Sultan.