Kumar Sanu

Kumar Sanu
Kumar Sanu in Indian Telly Awards
Background information
Birth name	Kedarnath Bhattacharya
Also known as	Melody King of Bollywood[1]
Born	(1957-10-20) 20 October 1957 (age 66) Calcutta, West Bengal, India (present-day Kolkata)
Genres	Filmi Ghazals Hindustani Classical Pop Blues Rabindra Sangeet
Occupations	Playback singer
Instruments	Vocals, tabla, piano
Years active	1983–present
Labels	Yash Raj Films, T-Series, Venus Records & Tapes, Sony Music, Zee Music, Tips, Saregama, Music Records, Vishesh Films My Fun Music
Spouse(s)	Saloni Bhattacharya ​ (m. 2001)​

Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi film songs. Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Manipuri, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia,^[2] Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali. Both in West Bengal and Bangladesh, he holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1991 to 1995. He holds the Guinness World Record for recording the maximum number of songs in a single day since 1993.^[3]

For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. Many of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".^[4]