Kedarnath Bhattacharaya, better known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer. He holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer. He has also sang in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Telugu and Malayalam.
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Kedarnath Bhattacharaya, better known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer. He holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer. He has also sang in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Oriya, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali. For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. His tracks feature in BBC’s \”Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time\”. His first major Bollywood song was Hero Hiralal in 1989. He won 5 back to back Filmfare awards for singing, between 1990 and 1994. His most popular songs are Saajan, Deewana, Phool Aur Kaante, Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin and 1942: A Love Story.
He is also known as King of melody in Bollywood. He was born in Bikrampur, East Pakistan, and grew up in Calcutta, West Bengal. His father was a vocalist and composer, and his sister was a dancer. He now lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children, and has a son and daughter-in-law who are also playback singers. He lives with his family in Vimal Bunglow, Mumbai and has three children. He also has a stepson and a stepdaughter who are both playback singers, and a son who is an actor-director-producer-singer-songwriter-director. His son has a daughter who is also a playback singer, and he has two step-children who are playback singers-songwriters-producers-actor-directors-sitarists-saxons-sangeet-sastri-sunday. He currently lives in a suburb of Mumbai, Mumbai.
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