About Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya , professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi film songs. Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Manipuri, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali. Both in West Bengal and Bangladesh, he holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1991 to 1995. He holds the Guinness World Record for recording the maximum number of songs in a single day since 1993.
For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. Many of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".
Kumar Sanu's father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, was a vocalist and composer, his ancestral home and birth place was Vikrampur,Munshiganj district,near Dhaka . In search of a livelihood, he moved to Calcutta, where Kumar Sanu was born. The two and Sanu's elder sister lived in the Sinthee area of Calcutta near Biswanath Park. Kumar Sanu lived at Panchanantala at Gopal Bose Lane in Sinthi area at North Kolkata.
Kumar Sanu's first marriage was with Rita Bhattacharya in 1980s. The couple had three children--Jiko, Jassi and Jaan Kumar Sanu. The couple got divorced in 1994. Sanu later married Saloni Bhattacharya. The couple has two daughters- Shannon K, a Bollywood playback singer; Their younger daughter, Annabelle Kumar Sanu, is a songwriter and author.
Kumar Sanu started his playback career as Sanu Bhattacharya from 1983. In 1986, he was in the Bangladeshi film Teen Kanya, directed by Shibli Sadiq. He had his first major Bollywood song in Hero Hiralal .
In 1989, Jagjit Singh introduced Sanu to Kalyanji in Vimal Bunglow, Mumbai. On their suggestion, Sanu changed his early name from "Sanu Bhattacharya" to "Kumar Sanu" after his idol Kishore Kumar. Sanu then relocated to Mumbai, where Kalyanji-Anandji gave him a chance to sing in the film Jaadugar.
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