| Some Lesser Known Facts | - Sadhana Sargam is of Maharashtrian origin and knows various languages.
- She took training in classical music from her mother and later from Pandit Jasraj.
- Her debut song was âDoor Ni Rehnaâ from the film âRustom,â which she sang before 1982, but the film got delayed, and the song was released later in 1985.
- In 1982, she sang her first solo song, âSaat Saheliya Khadi Khadi,â for the film âVidhaata,â Which was composed by Kalyanji-Anandji, the song also had the voices of Kishore Kumar and Alka Yagnik.
- She has contributed more than three decades of his singing career to the Indian Music Industry.
- She has sung in various languages like Marathi, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Assamese, Oriya, Nepali, Gujarati, Bengali, Rajasthani and Kashmiri, except Malayalam.
- She is more famous than the legendary singers Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle in Tamilnadu. She is even much popular in Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia, where Tamil music listens widely.
- Her real name is Sadhana Ghanekar, but Kalyanji said that, as her first name relates to music, her second name should refer to it too. So, he gave her second name as âSargam,â and since then, she is using that title as her surname.
- Sadhana Sargam has received one Indian National Award, three Filmfare awards, five Maharashtra State Film awards, Four Gujarat State Film Awards and one Orissa State Film Award. She has recorded 15000 songs in 35 regional languages till now, and many more are yet to come.
- She has also been awarded the âLata Mangeshkar Awardâ from the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
- Here is the song that was sung by Sadhana Sargam when she was just four years old.
- She took training in classical music from her mother Neela Ghanekar and later from Pandit Jasraj, a maestro in Hindustani classical music.
- In 1982, she provided the singing voice for actress Padmini Kolhapure in the film Vidhaata, marking her breakthrough in Bollywood.
- She rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s as one of Bollywood's leading playback singers.
- Her iconic songs include 'Tera Mera Saath Rahe' from Saath Saath, 'Aaina Hai Mera Chehra,' 'Teri Umeed Tera Intezar,' and 'Jab Koi Baat Bigad Jaaye.'
- She has contributed over three decades of her singing career to the Indian music industry.
- She has sung in various languages including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Gujarati, Assamese, Oriya, Nepali, Rajasthani, and Kashmiri.
- She is particularly renowned in Tamil Nadu and is popular in Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia.
- Her stage name 'Sargam' was given by music director Kalyanji, who suggested her surname should relate to music like her first name.
- She has recorded close to 10,000 Hindi songs, almost 2,000 Tamil songs, and close to 3,000 Bengali tracks.
- She is well known for her frequent collaborations with Oscar-winning film composer A.R. Rahman.
- She has been compared to and collaborated with acclaimed playback singer Kavita Krishnamurthy.
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