"Sukhwinder Singh" King of High Pitches

Sukhwinder Singh was born 18 July 1971 is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing “Chaiyya Chaiyya” for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam’s 1998 film Dil Se.., was composed by A. R. Rahman, written by Gulzar, and sung in duet with Sapna Awasthi. It was also featured in the musical Bombay Dreams and, in remixed arrangements, in the titles and credits segments of Spike Lee’s 2006 film, Inside Man. Singh later gained more international fame for singing “song Jai Ho” from the film Slumdog Millionaire, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Bollywood Songs and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Sukhwinder Singh won the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award for the song “Chaiyya Chaiyya” from the movie Dil Se whose music was by A R Rahman and for the song “Haule Haule” from the movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi whose music was by Salim Sulaiman .The song “Jai Ho”, sung by Singh, composed by A. R. Rahman, and written by Gulzar, was nominated a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Song and won an Oscar: Academy Award for Best Original Song. It also won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media in 2010. Singh got his break in the movie Karma, in which he sang a few lines; then he did a Madhuri Dixit film called Khilaaf, in which he sang the hit song “Aa ja Sanam”. But the singer realised that something was missing in his voice, took a sabbatical and left Mumbai to tour England and America to see, hear and understand various forms of music. After this broadening of his musical horizons, he returned to Mumbai to kick-start his musical career.

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