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Alisha Chinai
Background information
Birth name Sujata Chinai
Born March 18, 1972 (1972-03-18) (age 35)
Flag of India India
Genre(s) Bollywood filmi playback
Occupation(s) Singer
Instrument(s) Vocalist
Years active 1988-current

Alisha Chinai is a singer of pop music in India.
Contents
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* 1 Biography
* 2 Career
* 3 Awards
* 4 Partial Discography
* 5 Selected Songs
* 6 References
* 7 External links

[edit] Biography

Her real name is Sujata, though she has gone by Alisha Chinai (shortened to Alisha). She was born on 18 March 1972. She is also known as the "Indian Madonna" (she was first known as Babydoll but an image change later resulted in the "Madonna" moniker). A little known fact is that Sujata changed her name to that of her cousin's daughter Alisha (also Chinai) after she was born. Alisha Chinai (her cousin's daughter) is now a fashion accessory designer in India with her label Bea Accessories. She is currently dating Bobby Dubey.

[edit] Career

Chinai was discovered by the music director and composer Bappi Lahiri. They did many disco hits together in many films in the 1980s including Dance Dance, Commando, Guru, Love Love Love and more. She started her career with him doing playback singing for many actresses, such as Smita Patil, Mandakini, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai, Juhi Chawla, etc. In the 90s she worked in other films and for other music directors, such as Anu Malik and Nadeem-Shravan. In 1985, Alisha sang with Remo Fernandes in tha album Old Goan Gold. The songs she sang in this album became very popular.
Alisha (center) as a judge in Indian Idol-3 alongside Javed Akhtar & Udit Narayan
Alisha (center) as a judge in Indian Idol-3 alongside Javed Akhtar & Udit Narayan

Simultaneously with playback singing, she has recorded many songs as a pop singer, with album releases. Chinai was noted for her 1996 single and album, titled "Made in India", which contains another well-known song, "Lover Girl." Throughout her successful years, she had a number of hits in Indian films, including Roundhe (Pyar Tune Kya Kiya), Sona Sona Roop Hai (Bollywood/Hollywood), and the controversial Mujhe Log Bole (Khuddar). However, her follow-up albums were less successful.

Alisha's return to film music was with the song "Oh My Darling" in the Yash Raj Film Mujhse Dosti Karoge. She then teamed up with Anu Malik after stating she would never work with him again in 1995.

Another high point in her career came with the song Kajra Re (Bunty Aur Babli). The song was a hit and Alisha won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award. Her most famous songs have been represented by actresses Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra and Aishwarya Rai.

Alisha is currently a judge on Indian Idol 3.

[edit] Awards
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* Alisha received the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for the song "Kajra Re" from the film Bunty Aur Babli
* Alisha received the International Billboard Award around the time "Made in India" came out, and also won the Freddie Mercury Award for Artistic Excellence.
* Internationally, Alisha received attention when her song "Seulement Vous" won first place at the International Song Festival "Asia 2004". It was the first victory for India in the Song Contest.

LOL
thnx for the bio !

she is gone be my darling very soon. i will marry her asap after ii i

Originally posted by: Pseudonym

she knows a lot of new slang terms and her vocabulary is good, but she does have an indian accent even though she tries to fake the british one at times 😛

umm... Alisha is a fob who's tryin too hard to be cool..i mean.. its kinda strange when a 35 year old aunty says, "what a freaked out performance".. umm who says freaked out anyway? what is this, the 80s? She also just likes guys and has a biased toward "supposedly" good looking guys. She liked that poser Suhit, who dressed like a homeboy from east L.A. with his pant leg.. and then she thought that Chang was cute? Is she serious?!?! And if she said that she is gonna leave the show, then why'd she come back? Say what you mean, stop overacting and trying to get attention... (just my thoughts)

Originally posted by: zinsbhai

whats here to dislike her? how is she responsible if the music director choose her to sing the song?

and for your information, when a song is made, MDs first make a dummy copy with some unestablished singers before making the final copy. many of A R Rehman's songs' dummy copy were sung by her sister Rehana. its something like choreographers first show the dance steps to their assistances and if everything goes ok, then they start working with the original actors.

this is how the system works and even those singers know it from the beginning that they are just doing the dummy copy.

oops u seems take it serious.😛...i were just joking & I still like alisha....😆
I posted this to let karish know abt it as she is crazy for antara earlier but seems she dont wanna know abt antara at all

yeah as i mentioned nihira also sung many dummy songs especially shreya's...