Occupation(s) Singer Years active 2002–present | Name Soham Chakraborty Role Playback Singer | |
Similar People Gayatri Iyer, Saandip, Sharda Rajan Iyengar, Antara Mitra, Akriti Kakar | ||
Soham Chakrabarty (Bengali:সোহম চক্রবর্তী) is a playback singer who has sung many songs for Bollywood movies as well as for Bengali movies. He was declared the winner of Zee's "Sa-re-ga-ma"(A musical competition) in 2000 (at the age of 20). Till now his big hit is "In dino" song from the movie Life In A... Metro.
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Early life
Soham is a Bengali guy who started singing at the age of 10. He trained in Hindustani classical music under the guidance of Pandit Jayendra Ghosh, Ustad Mohammed Sagaruddin Khan saab and Sukhdev Sengupta. Music directors Bappi Lahiri and O P Nayyar suggested that if he wanted to pursue singing as a career, he'd have to shift base to Mumbai. Since then he started living in Mumbai. He came to Mumbai in 2002.
Career
He has been through a lot of struggle. He sang for Ada and Dil Samander (Garam Masala) ads though that was finally dubbed by Sonu Nigam and KK respectively. He has done several ad jingles like Emami and Mc Donalds with music director Pritam. T-Series gave him his first break in 13 languages including Telugu, Tamil, Bhojpuri and Assamese. He has sung lots of Hindi and Bengali songs for Bollywood movies and Bengali movies respectively. He has also sung devotional songs with popular singers like Debashish, Preeti, Pinky, Javed Ali, Charanjeet Singh Sondhi , Kalpana, Priya Bhattacharya etc