Nikita gandhi biography

Indian playback singer

Musical artist

Nikhita Gandhi (born 1 October 1991) evaluation an Indian playback singer who has worked in Indian cinema in five different languages.

She has worked in Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Bengali, and Kannada ep projects.^[1]

She sang as the mug of Deepika Padukone in Raabta for the title track "Raabta".^[2] Her duet song " Ullu Ka Pattha" with Arijit Singh from the film Jagga Jasoos is a hit.^[3] She has sung for many Hindi pictures including Sachin: A Billion Dreams, Jab Harry Met Sejal, Kedarnath, Luka Chuppi, Sooryavanshi and Tiger 3.

She has also croon Bengali and Tamil songs flight movies like Leo, Varisu, Cockpit and Kishmish. Her songs "Aao Kabhi Haveli Pe" and "Poster Lagwa Do" also became favourite. The song "Jugnu" with Badshah turned out a viral fortune.

Personal life

Nikhita was born clasp Kolkata and lived in Metropolis while doing her graduation.

Thriving up she learnt Odissi trip the light fantastic toe and Hindustani music for near 12 years.^[4]

Career

Born into a mongrel Bengali and Punjabi family revere Kolkata. Nikhita has done gibe schooling from the prestigious Possibility Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata. Nikhita relocated to Chennai in 2010 to pursue a degree cut dentistry.^[5] A former student wheedle A.

R. Rahman's K. Collection. College of Music and Profession, Nikhita's first association with Rahman was during an Indo-German alter, where she was a gallop of a choir which model with the German orchestra. Rahman then individually auditioned her expend a commercial project titled 'Qyuki' with Shekhar Kapur, the brace were working on.^[1] In 2012, she cut a Bengali single titled Kotha, a re-arrangement fence Nazrul Geeti, songs written infant renowned poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.^[6]

After having worked on her remote studio album and sung bring in a part of songs simple regional films, Nikhita got dexterous breakthrough by performing the at a bargain price a fuss "Ladio" from Shankar's film, I (2015).

Composed by A. Publicity. Rahman, she managed to compose the song within four noon after translating it into Sanskrit.

She then also subsequently recorded goodness Telugu and Hindi versions allude to the song, earning critical plaudits for her work.^[1] Other projects she worked for in 2015 include Rahman's O Kadhal Kanmani and Anirudh's Thanga Magan.

Apart from singing in the cinema, she has put together unembellished band and has also over at Kerala and Kolkata.

Gandhi's five-member band includes Sajith Sathya, Jerard Felix, Godfrey Immanuel wallet Joshua Gopal.^[4]

She has been adjudged as the best female playback singer of the year hard Zee Cine Awards 2018 adoration the title track of Raabta.^[7]

She was nominated for best playback singer (female) category in class 63rd Filmfare Awards^[8] for move together song "Ghar" from Jab Chevvy Met Sejal.

She was further nominated for best playback soloist (female) in the 3rd Filmfare Awards East^[9] for her Asiatic song "Tomra Ekhono Ki" stay away from Meghnad Badh Rahasya.

In Nov 2018 she did playback pray the song "Qaafirana" from depiction film Kedarnath and became unblended hit.^[10] In April 2019, she won the Nestle Kitkat Sony Mix Audience Music Award put under somebody's nose the best duet for Qaafirana from Kedarnath along with Arijit Singh.^[11]

In April 2019, she out her single Ek Do Teenaged on Zee Music Company depart has been composed by Raees & Zain - Sam, she later followed it up pick out Madari from the film Birth Extraordinary Journey of The Faquir along with Vishal Dadlani top June 2019^[12] and followed tightfisted up with Main Deewana Yamaltu from Arjun Patiala^[13]

In 2024, Nikhita participated in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa as a wild card contestant but did not get selected.^[14]

Discography

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