Sadhna Sargam

Name: Sadhna Sargam
Family: Neela Ghanekar











BIOGRAPHY

Sadhana Sargam is one of the well-known singers from India. She is known as very melodious and versatile singer. She has sung almost all major Indian languages of India. She is also a very talented classical musician. She was trained by her mother at her early childhood and then by Pandit Jasraj. She is very famous for her live concerts for her flawless brilliant performances. She won several awards throughout her career including prestigious Indian national award as the best female playback singer in 2002 for a Tamil song "Paddu solli" from the movie "Azhagi". She is one of the few singers who are equally recognized and successful in both classical and light music fields. In her early days as a singer, her voice in high octaves was thought to be similar to that of Lata Mangeshkar while her low octave voice was that of Asha Bhosle.

However, as time passed Sargam developed her own style that cannot be imitated by others in anyway. She is known to paint a full color to the lyrics and music with her high standards of dedication. It is believed that Sadhana Sargam was unwittingly responsible for the rift between music greats Shankar-Jaikishan and Lata Mangeshkar When the duo compared Sargam with Mangeshkars. Mangheskar thought the comparing herself with a much junior teenage singer was very unacceptable. Sadhana Sargam was well received in Tamil Nadu. She is very busy in Tamil music field. Among the North Indian singers, Sargam sang the highest number of songs in Tamil or Telugu Fields. She is more popular than Lata Mangheshkar or Asha Bhosle in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, where Tamil is spoken widely and Tamil music is listened to. Composer A.R. Rahman uses her voice more often in his Hindi, Tamil, or Telugu songs. She also sang in an international production Warriors of Heaven and Earth under Mr. Rahman direction and became a global singer recently.