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Aasma

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Origin
  
India

Genres
  
Pop

Years active
  
2003 (2003)–2004 (2004)

Past members
  
Neeti Mohan, Jimmy Felix, Sangeet Haldipur, Peyush Dixit, Aamir Ali and Vasudha Sharma

Aasma is an Indian pop group that formed in 2003, and has disbanded since. The band was composed of the winners of the first season of Indian version of the international television talent show Popstars, named Coke [V] Popstars, after its principal sponsors, Coca-Cola and music channel Channel [V].

The six original members were Neeti Mohan, Jimmy Felix, Sangeet Haldipur, Peyush Dixit, Aamir Ali and Vasudha Sharma . They launched their second and last album Remix - which was used for a generation-x tv series on StarOne, going by the same name- in 2004.

Though there has been no official report about the group's split, they have not released an album since 2004, and the members have all embarked on solo careers.

Neeti Mohan has been the most successful one. She made her singing debut in Bollywood in 2012, with "Ishq Wala Love" in Student of the Year opposite Shekhar Ravjiani and Salim Merchant. Mohan ended the year 2012 with "Jiya Re" from Jab Tak Hai Jaan. Both her songs earned her various nominations and also some awards at the various awards function. She also featured on the TV show, MTV Unplugged (India) along with Shalmali Kholgade and Arijit Singh among many where she sang an acoustic version of "Jiya Re". She had also featured on the same show with A. R. Rahman earlier.

Neeti is currently one of the judges of "The Voice" ,along with Shekhar and Shaan, which is telecasted at "&TV" every Saturday-Sunday at 9:00 p.m. IST.

References

Aasma Wikipedia