Kanika Kapoor

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Kanika Kapoor
File:Kanika Kapoor at Screen Awards.jpg
Kapoor at the 21st Screen Awards, 2015
Born Kanika Kapoor
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma mater Bhatkhande Music Institute
Occupation
  • Playback singer
Years active 2012–present
Spouse(s) Raj Chandok (m. 1997; d. 2012)
Musical career
Genres
Instruments Vocals
Labels
Associated acts

Kanika Kapoor is an Indian playback singer, who predominantly sings for the Hindi language films. Through her successful singing career, she has received one Filmfare Award and has established herself as one of the leading singers of India.

Kapoor, born and raised in Lucknow, always aspired to pursue a career in singing, but she married businessman Raj Chandok in 1997 at the age of 18 and moved to London. She has three children and got divorce from Raj in 2012 and relocated to Mumbai to become a singer. Kapoor's first song "Jugni Ji" (2012) was for a music video, which became a huge commercial success. In 2014, she began her Bollywood playback singing career with the song "Baby Doll" for the film Ragini MMS 2. Upon its release, "Baby Doll" went viral and topped the charts and Kapoor received wide critical acclaim for her singing style as well as earned several awards, including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer.

Kapoor subsequently earned more success by singing one of the Hindi cinema's top charted songs, including "Lovely" and "Kamlee" for the film Happy New Year (2014), "Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan" for the film Roy (2015), "Desi Look" for the film Ek Paheli Leela (2015), "Nachan Farrate" for the film All Is Well (2015), "Jugni Peeke Tight Hai" for the film Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (2015), "Jab Chaye Tera Jadoo" for the film Main Aur Charles (2015), "Neendein Khul Jaati Hain" for the film Hate Story 3 (2015) and "Premika" for the film Dilwale (2015), the later of these rank among one of the highest-grossing Bollywood film.

Early and personal life

Kapoor was born and brought up in a Punjabi Khatri family in Lucknow[1] where she also studied music.[2] At the age of 12, Kapoor started to study classical music under musician Pandit Ganesh Prasad Mishra from Varanasi and was accompanied by him to classical concerts around India. Kapoor participated in many music competitions at school in her childhood. At the age of 15, she did a stint with All India Radio and also accompanied bhajan singer Anup Jalota in his shows. She did her B.A. and then Masters in music from Bhatkhande Music Institute in Lucknow. She then moved to Mumbai to pursue her music career.[3]

Kapoor married to Raj Chandok, an NRI businessman, at the age of 18 and moved to London with her husband, with whom she had three children. Kapoor separated from her husband in 2007 and moved back to her parents home in Lucknow.[4][5] The couple divorced in 2012.[1][6] She currently resides in London with her children.

Career

File:Kanika Kapoor at HT Most Stylish Awards 2016.jpg
Kapoor at the HT Most Stylish Awards 2016

In 2012, Kapoor released the music video "Jugni Ji", featuring Dr. Zeus. The track was the remix version of the Pakistani Sufi song "Alif Allah", originally sung by Arif Lohar and Meesha Shafi at the third season of the musical series Coke Studio Pakistan in 2010. Upon the release, "Jugni Ji" went on to become one of the biggest singles of 2012 and Kapoor earned the Brit Asia TV Music Award for Best Single.[7] By the success of "Jugni Ji", Meet Bros Anjjan asked Kapoor to sing the song "Baby Doll" for the film Ragini MMS 2 (2014), which marked her Bollywood singing debut.The song created a hype over its release and topped the charts with winning Mirchi Music Awards for the "Number One Song of the Year" award.[8] Kapoor was critically praised for her singing style and went on to win several awards, including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer. The same year she collaborated again with Dr. Zeus along with Vishal-Shekhar for the song "Lovely" in Happy New Year which was picturised on Deepika Padukone.[9] The soundtrack of the album also includes a Punjabi remix of the song titled "Kamlee". Both the songs "Lovely" and "Kamlee" received generally positive reviews and were proved to be a major success.[10]

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Kapoor performing at "SLAM! The Tour"

That same year, she participated in a concert tour across North America, entitled "SLAM! The Tour", in which she performed alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone.[11] Apart from concerts and tours, she has also been signed by an NGO for children, as their brand ambassador, where she promoted the cause of children's education.[12] She also relaunched her own fashion brand "Kanika Kapoor: House of Chikankari" to help the female artisans in Lucknow and develop this art of embroidery and textile decoration.

In the year 2015, she collaborated again with Meet Bros Anjjan for the song "Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan" in Roy, which became a huge critical and commercial success and was the playback singer for Sunny Leone in the song "Desi Look" in the movie Ek Paheli Leela.[13][14] The song was her last collaboration with Zeus and parted ways with him due to his false claim of being the producer and composer of the song "Baby Doll".[15] She collaborated third time with Meet Bros Anjjan for the song "Nachan Farrate" for the movie All Is Well. She sang "Neendein Khul Jaati Hain" for the film Hate Story 3, collaborating fourth time with Meet Bros.[16] She also sang a welcome song titled "Hello Namstey" for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he attended a gathering at Wembley Stadium, London on 13 November 2015.[17]

She regularly arranges and take part in live shows and concerts. She has a lot in pipeline. In 2016, she will pair up with various composers including Amit Trivedi, Raghav Sachar, Jitendra Shah. In a recent interview, she said that she will now concentrate more on Sufi and classical tracks. Apart from this, she will also collaborate with international artists, one of them which is with Naughty Boy. She will also release her songs as singles.[18]

Discography

Year Film/Album Song(s) Composer(s) Co-singer(s) Writer Ref(s)
2012 Alif Allah "Jugni Ji" Dr. Zeus Shortie Arif Lohar [19]
2014 Ragini MMS 2 "Baby Doll" Meet Bros Anjjan Meet Bros Anjjan Kumaar [8]
"Baby Doll (Remix Version)
Happy New Year "Lovely" Dr. Zeus, Vishal-Shekhar Ravindra Upadhyay, Miraya Varma, Fateh Kumaar, Jiwan Mann [20]
"Kamlee"
2015 Roy "Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan" Meet Bros Anjjan Kumaar [21]
Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan (MBA Swag) Meet Bros Anjjan
(Remix by: MBA feat. DJ Shilpi)		 Meet Bros Anjjan [22]
"Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan (Remix)" Meet Bros Anjjan
(Remix by: Kuwar Virk)		 Meet Bros Anjjan [23]
NH10 "Chhil Gaye Naina" Sanjeev–Darshan Dipanshu Pandit [24]
Ek Paheli Leela "Desi Look" Dr. Zeus [25]
"Desi Look (Remix)" Dr. Zeus
(Remix by: DJ Chetas)		 [26]
Ten Cricket Project "We Could Be Heroes" (Recreated Song) Alesso Sajid-Wajid [27]
All Is Well "Nachan Farrate" Meet Bros Kumaar [28]
"Nachan Farrate (MB Swag) Meet Bros [29]
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon "Jugni Peeke Tight Hai (Version 1)" Amjad Nadeem Divya Kumar Shabbir Ahmed [30]
The Big Indian Wedding "Teddy Bear" Kanika Kapoor Ikka Singh [31]
Main Aur Charles "Jab Chaye Tera Jadoo" Sanjeev-Darshan Ikram Basra [32]
Hate Story 3 "Neendein Khul Jaati Hain" Meet Bros Mika Singh Shabbir Ahmed [16]
Super Girl From China "Super Girl From China" Kanika Kapoor Mika Singh [33]
Dilwale "Premika" Pritam Chakraborty Benny Dayal Amitabh Bhattacharya [34]
"Tukur Tukur" Arijit Singh, Neha Kakkar, Siddharth Mahadevan, Nakash Aziz [35]
2016 Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 "Jawaani Le Doobi" Sajid–Wajid Uvie, Rap by Ikka Danish Sabri [36]
Teraa Surroor "Ishq Samundar (Reloaded)" Himesh Reshammiya Anand Raj Anand [37]
Udta Punjab "Da Da Dasse" Amit Trivedi Babu Haabi Shellee [38]
Do Lafzon Ki Kahani "Ankhiyaan" Arjuna Harjai Kumaar [39]

Awards

File:Kanika Kapoor launches "Teddy Bear".jpg
Kapoor at launch of her single 'Teddy Bear'

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