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Who is Shreya Ghoshal? Her Husband, Family, Net Worth and Other Facts
Her life has been eventful with many laurels and career milestones to show how good she is at what she does. For Shreya Ghoshal to have won a total of 138 awards and counting out of 475 nominations, then there is no question of how invaluable her talent is. Here you will learn everything there is to know about one of India’s top singers and music producers knowing all the highlights of his career including relatively unknown facts about him.
Who is Shreya Ghoshal?
Shreya Ghoshal is an Indian woman born on March 12, 1984 in Baharampur, Murshidabad district, West Bengal, in a Bengali Hindu family whose head is Bishwajit Ghoshal (electrical engineer) and his wife, Sarmistha Ghoshal (philologist). Shreya Ghoshal’s younger brother is Soumyadeep Ghoshal, with whom she grew up in Rawatbhata, a small town near Kota in Rajasthan, in northwestern India.
By the age of four, Shreya had developed an interest in music and would often be spotted singing with her peers. She was educated at the Central Atomic Energy School in Rawatbhata where her musical talents shone all the more as she won many music awards. After her family moved to Mumbai, she continued her education at Anushakti Nagar Central Atomic Energy School and then Atomic Energy Junior College before retiring and enrolling in SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce of Mumbai to study what it was. best suited for; Arts with a major in English.
She pursued her interest in music with passion and even received classical music training from Mukta Bhide of blessed memory, and when she was 16, she won the musical reality show “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa” formerly “Sa Re Ga Ma”. Her life since then has been a fulfillment as she has risen to the zenith of her career and continues to make waves till today.
Indian director Sanjay Leela Bhansali gave Shreya Ghoshal her first Bollywood gig as the voice of Paro; the main female character in “Devdas”. In the movie, she sang Silsila Ye Chaahat Ka, Bairi Piya, Chalak Chalak, Morey Piya, and Dola Re Dola with famous singers like Jaspinder Narula, UditNarayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Vinod Rathod, and KK. After her impressive performance, she won her first Filmfare Award for Best Female Vocalist ( Dola Re Dola ), just as she also won the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Musical Talent.
Shreya Ghoshal at such an early stage of hercareer was already highly sought after. She received calls from various film companies in the area to record songs for their films. Some of her works include ‘Saaya’ (in which she made her first screen appearance), ‘Desh Devi’, ‘Har Taraf’, ‘Munna Bhai MBBS’, ‘Agar Tum Mil Jao’, ‘Bande Mein Tha Dum”, “Chale Aao Saiyan” and “Naino Mein Sapna” to name a few.
Family: her husband
The beauty is no longer single. She married Indian entrepreneur Shiladitya Mukhopad in a hushed ceremony which took place on February 5, 2015. The two are believed to have been dating quietly for some time before Shreya released her proposal to him in December 2014.
For what we know about her husband ShiladityaMukhopadhyaya; like most new generation Indians, he is passionate about technology and is credited as the co-founder of Rasilant Tech; a technology solutions and consulting company headquartered in Mumbai with a specialty in Radio Frequency Identification solutions. He also has a vested interest in Hipcask as the founder and board member of the company that developed the app to help wine, whiskey and beer drinkers easily locate their products and brand.
In its portfolio, you’ll also find PointShelf, a local app that rewards users for patronizing small businesses that they visit more often than larger stores. They have yet to make babies in their union and when they do, we will definitely let you know.
Net worth and other facts
- Shreya Ghoshal is one of the richest singers Bollywood has ever known. For this, she has a net worth of $25 million.
- His first studio album containing 14 songs was released on January 1, 1998 and titled Bendhechhi Beena.
- Shreya was initially a science student at Atomic Energy Junior College before changing schools to study arts with a major in English at SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce.
- She sings in many different languages like Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Telugu.
- The playback musician has also featured as a judge in several Indian reality shows like ‘Voice of India’, ‘Indian Idol Junior’ and ‘Music Ka Maha Muqqabla’.
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