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Sunidhi Chauhan (सुनिधि चौहान) (ਸੁਨਿਧੀ ਚੌਹਾਨ) (born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is one of the most popular Indian playback singers and performers today, best known for her Punjabi songs and Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs in several other Indian languages, such as; Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Nepali, Urdu and English, making her one of the most recorded voices in India today with over 3000 studio recordings. Chauhan made her International debut with the song Heartbeat (Indian Mix), a collaboration with Enrique Iglesias. She has been awarded with prestigious national awards on several occasions and has established herself as the strongest live performer and singer in India to date. In 2013, Chauhan also made it to the list of Asia's 50 sexiest Women. Legendary Lata Mangeshkar stated that Chauhan is Numero Uno singer of this generation ahead of her contemporaries. Award winning composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan has stated on many occasions that Chauhan is the best female singer live-performer in India today. She is credited for being a game changer and proved to be the coming of age of strong female singing Chauhan began to sing at the age of four and was discovered by a local TV anchor.〔 〕 She won recognition through a televised singing contest, Meri Awaz Suno, which she won, and made her entrance into playback singing with the Hindi film ''Shastra'' at the age of 13. Her breakthrough was Ram Gopal Varma's film ''Mast'', in which she sang the hit song "Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi."〔 She has been nominated for fourteen Filmfare Awards, winning it on two occasions, as well as a Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent. She has won two Star Screen Awards, two IIFA Awards and one Zee Cine Award. She started her singing career as a child, giving her first performance at the age of four, in a local temple in Delhi. She did her early studies in Greenway modern School, Dilshad Garden in Delhi. Thereafter, she began to participate in, and sing for, competitions and local gatherings. When the famous stage and TV anchor Tabassum spotted her talent, she made her sing live in her show ''Tabassum Hit Parade'' and asked her family to shift to Mumbai. Tabassum then introduced her to Kalyanji and Anandji Bhai. Her family shifted to Mumbai in a bid to further develop the young singer's skills, and Chauhan became the lead singer in Kalyanji's 'Little Wonders' troupe.〔 Recognition first met her in 1996, through the music show ''Meri Aawaz Suno'' – the first such televised contest in India – which was broadcast through the Indian national television channel, Doordarshan. She won the competition and won the top prize of recording an album, ''Aira Ghaira Nathu Khaira'', with HMV.〔 Unluckily for Chauhan, ''Aira Ghaira Nathu Khaira'' was promoted as a children's album and failed to get the recognition it deserved.〔 In 2002, Chauhan observed this in an interview: "My first song and the contest did not help me much. Nothing happened for a while. But by then, I had made up my mind that I will pursue singing as a career." Chauhan stepped into the world of playback singing with the 1996 Bollywood film, ''Shastra'',〔 after Aadesh Srivastava asked her to lend her voice to the song "Larki Deewaani Dekho, Ladka Deewaana."〔 She followed it with work in films like ''Gang'', ''Veergati'', ''Dahek'', ''Bade Dilwala'', ''Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat'' and ''Samar''. By the age of nineteen, Chauhan had lent her voice to over 350 songs.〔 In 2015, Chauhan voiced Elsa for the Hindi Version of '' Frozen'' == Breakthrough and later work with Anu Malik == Ram Gopal Varma's ''Mast'', in which she sang the hit song "Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi" and three others, including the title song.〔 In an interview, while speaking of ''Mast'', she said: "Whatever I am today, I owe to ''Mast''. I met Sandeep Chowta through Sonu Nigam, and fifteen days later, ''Mast'' was in my lap. I was only sixteen then."〔 In February 2007, as part of its marketing campaign and launch of Windows Vista in India, Microsoft hired Chauhan to sing the "Windows Vista Song" titled ("Wow is Now" ). This song features English and Hindi lyrics proclaiming the many 'glamorous' features of the Windows Vista operating system. Chauhan has sung Oriya movie songs (Abhimanyu and Most Wanted) too.. Chauhan sung for the Hindi-dubbed version of Disney's movie, ''High School Musical'' – songs that were sung by Vanessa Anne Hudgens in the English version. Moreover, she was the singer of the English language song "Reach Out" at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Asian Games at Doha, Qatar. 2008 was a highly successful year for the young singer, as she went on to deliver a huge number of superhit songs like "Chhaliya" (''Tashan''), "Rock Mahi," "Lucky Boy," "Desi Girl" (''Dostana''), "Dance Pe Chance" (''Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi''), and "Race Saanson Ki" (''Race'') that resulted in her winning the "Kelvinator GR8! FLO Women Award 2009" for her contribution to music. In April 2010, Chauhan joined Anu Malik and Salim Merchant as a judge on the fifth season of the immensely popular singing talent show ''Indian Idol 5''. She also judged the sixth season of ''Indian Idol'' alongside Asha Bhosale, Anu Malik and Salim Merchant. Chauhan is known as one of the strongest live performers in India today, which also made her the first-ever recipient of the prestigious "Chevrolet GIMA (Global Indian Music Awards) of Best Live Performer - Female. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sunidhi Chauhan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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