Interesting facts about Arijit Singh | lyricschordsmp3
We bring you the,"Interesting facts about Arijit Singh".
No singer till date has touched so many heart like Arijit Singh has done. He is the heartthrob of Indian and other country people who like Bollywood music. Born on Arpril 25, 1987, this 34 year old singer till date has sung more than 300 songs out of which 250 songs have been declared as super-hit. From an unknow guy to the singing sensation of India, Arijit Singh has come a long way. Being an unfavored contestant in the singing reality show ,"Fame Gurukul", where he was thrown out of the show because he got less vote by the public and becoming one of the most demanded singer of Bollywood and Indian music industry today.
Arijit Singh musical journey is an inspiration to many future singers out there to never lose hope and continue working hard. In the past, there have been many singers who were famous and people use to listen to their songs whole-heartedly but now we rarely hear their songs. For example: Sonu Nigam, Mohit Chauhan, Atif Aslam, etc. All of them were great singers and still are, they all had the soulful voice but Arijit Singh is the only singer whose fame has lasted for so long.
The answer for his fame is simple, "when you hear his soulful voice all the pain disappears, the sound that comes from his voice creates an ever lasting impact on people's memory and people can't escape it. Apart from this, there are lot's of interesting things that makes us listen to Arijit Singh and they are:
1) Arijit Singh was born on 25th April, 1987, in Jiaganj, Mursidabad, West Bengal, in a musical family, he was trained by his Aunt (maternal) at home and at a very young age. Almost all the family members from his mom side were on music business and thus, his goal was fixed since his childhood, that is, to be a singer.
2) He started learning music lesson at an very young age at his home and his first teacher was his aunt.
3) Arijit Singh parents belong to different religion and state, his dad "Kakkar Singh" belongs from Punjab and follows Sikhism, whereas his mother is from Bengal state and follows Hinduism.
4) Arijit Singh mother, grandmother were also a singer and a professional tabala player. This also increased Arijit interest in music.
5) His first wife name was Ruphrekha Banerjee, who was the top 3 contestant of fame gurukul, they got married on the year 2013 and at the same year they got divorced.
When media asked why did he and Ruprekha Banerjee got divorced then his answer was, "I wanted different things in life and she wanted different thing, we realized this very fast and we both came to the conclusion we can no longer move forward as a couple". Apart from this Arijit Singh hasn't talked or shared about his first wife.
6) Later on year 2014, he got married with his childhood friend Koel Roy. They got married in Bengal at Tarapith Temple on January 20, 2014. This was second marriage for Koel Roy too and had a daughter from the first marriage as well.
7) Arijit singh and Koel Roy have two sons.
8) His first teachers outside family were:
Rajendra Prasad Hazari: His classical musical guru.
Dhirendra Prasad Hazari: His tabala guru.
Birendra Prasad Hazari: Randindra sangeet and pop music guru.
10) At the age of 9, Arijit singh got scholarhsip from the government to train as a classical music vocalist.
11) At the age of 19, he participated in the show Fame gurukul which use to be the most famous singing reality show of that time. But unfortunately he didn't even qualify for top 5. In an interview he confessed that, "he was mentally stressed and none of the contestant in the show wanted to partner with him but when he began to become the favorite other contestants wanted to his partner, that's how he came to know he can't depend on anybody, he also said that this was an life long lesson for him".
12) He won 10lakh rupees after winning the singing show 10 k 10 milgaye and with that money he opened his own recording studio.
13) Arijit Singh was set to sing in the song Yoon Sabnabee in the movie "Saawariya" but later the script of the movie changed and his song was never released.
14) He also has recorded an album with Tips music company but unfortunately the album was never released.
15) We all know the famous song "Humari Adhuri Kahani" which was sang by none other then Arijit Singh, but while recording this song Arijit lost his confidence since it was the title song and because of the nervousness he couldn't sing the song, but with the motivation and support from the movie director Mohit Suri and producer Mahesh Bhatt he was able to sing the song and later became massive hit.
16) He has also music for different advertisements during his struggle time in Mumbai.
But now Arijit Singh has 3 cars and they are:
Range Rover vogue
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Mercedes Benz e-class
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Hummer H3
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Ghulam Ali
Jagjit Singh
Mehdi Hasan
22) The Indian heartthrob also owns an NGO named, "Let there be Light", which works for the community that are below the poverty line. The NGO distributes blood, books, clothes to the needy people.
23) Despite being born and raised in Bengal, Arijit Singh favorite place is Kashmir.
25) He sang the second song for the movie Agent Vinod and the song name was "Raabata", which was a super-hit song too.
26) He was worked with many music directors of Bollywood such as "Pritam" and "Vhishal Shekhar", as an assistant music programmer before being famous.
27) Where billions of people are die-hard fans of Arjit voice but his wife isn't. In an award show, when an host asked ,"your wife must be your biggest fan?, Arijit replied she doesn't even listen to my songs".
28) The ultimate reason for him to become a singer was not to be famous and earn lots of money and live lavish life, he became the singer because he was really passionate about it and loved music. We can also see this in his daily lifestyle, he still travels like normal people on a public transport, loves to ride the scooter and motorbike whenever he has to go to the market, didn't own cars for so many years despite being famous.
29) After getting in controversy with Salman Khan at an award show, he was replaced by Salman Khan to sing in the movie "Sultan". In the movie he had contract to sing the song, "Jag Ghoomeya".
30) Arijit Singh even apologized for this on social-media and insisted Salman to not remove him from this song but Salman didn't forgive him.
31) Arijit Singh is also known as the king of playback singing. Arijit has won 1 national award for the movie "Padmaavat", whereas he has won 6 filmfare awards, till today he has won 28 awards.
32) He was the most streamed Indian artist on Spotify on 2020.
33) He is mostly compared with Atif Aslam, Sonu Nigam by his fans and this is also the most debated topic on different social-networking sites but Arijit Singh has replied, "they all are fantastic singers, they were already famous before i was singing and they are my seniors so comparing myself with them would be unfair".
33) Do you know Arijit singh has been arrested once?
It was on 2013, when he went to the court regarding divorce with his first wife and when an journalist asked Arijit a question, he hit him with the helmet and the journalist filed a complain against him at a police-station leading to Arijit Singh arrest.
34) He doesn't like to be called Celebrity and speaking in front of the media and tries to stay away from all the limelight.
35) Arijit Singh charges 15 lakhs rupees for one song, whereas for concert he charges 1.5 crore and his estimated net worth is 50 crore.
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