Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik represents something I deeply admire about playback singing: the voice that outlives the face on screen. Seven Filmfare wins, two National Film Awards, and thirty-seven nominations are staggering numbers, but the real feat is how she shaped the emotional texture of 1990s Bollywood itself. Audiences may remember the actors, yet it was her voice carrying the longing in those melodies. To record that volume of work while shading each performance differently demands extraordinary control. From Kolkata to dominating Hindi cinema for decades, she is one of those artists whose sound becomes inseparable from an entire era's memory.

Name (English)

Alka Yagnik

Name (Japanese)

アルカ・ヤグニック

Reading

あるか・やぐにっく

Born

March 20, 1966 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

Origin

Kolkata, India

Occupation

actor / singer / composer / film actor / musician

High school

Modern High School for Girls

Awards & achievements

• Filmfare Awards

• Official sitehttp://www.alkayagnik.co.in/
• Xhttps://x.com/thealkayagnik
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka%20Yagnik
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466826

Tags

• actor
• singer
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.