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Kailash Kher is an Indian pop-rock and Bollywood playback singer with a music style influenced by Indian folk music and Sufi music. Though his professional prowess encompasses most of the Indian languages, his contribution to Indian music lies way beyond that. He is a prime candidate amongst the contemporary Sufi singers. He has sung more than 700 songs in movies apart from 5 hugely popular and successful private albums. He was inspired by the classical musician Pandit Kumar Gandharva, Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, and the Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

He has been honored with the Padma Shri award in 2017 by the Government of India. He is the recipient of two trophies of Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from the Bollywood movie Fanaa (2006), and Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer – Telugu from the Telugu film Mirchi (2013), with several other nominations.

Kher is known for his unique and powerful voice, style, and music. He has established himself as one of the most successful and popular playback singers in India.

Kher was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh on 7 July 1973 in a Kashmiri Pandit family. His father Mehar Chand Kher and his mother Chandrakanta were from Meerut. Kher’s father was an amateur musician whose performances of traditional folk songs were a regular household event. Kher’s first brush with music hence came in his childhood. Brought up in a musical atmosphere, from his school days, he was enchanted and fascinated by music and used to listen to his father’s Indian folks songs all day. Even as a four-year-old, Kher revealed a natural musical talent and he would often impress friends and family by belting out songs with his prematurely powerful voice.

At the age of 14, Kher left home in search of a guru or an institution to further his musical training, and he embarked on years of classical and folk music study. According to him, “It was because I wanted to pursue my passion for music. It required me to stay in isolation”. He also attended music classes and would teach the same to students for just Rs. 150 per session to maintain himself, taking care of all his personal expenses from lodging to food, plus his education and music expenses.

Although he couldn’t find the right guru or a school, he started learning music by listening to it. He listened to Indian classical singers like Pandit Kumar Gandharv, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Gokulotsav Maharaj, and later even Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lata Mangeshkar, and their contemporaries.

He then experimented with a family friend’s Indian handicraft export business till 1999.[12] His depression phase started and he even attempted suicide once, in the beginning of the year 1999, when his business collapsed. He went to Singapore and Thailand and stayed there for six months. Later, after he relocated to Delhi with his family, he graduated from Delhi University through the correspondence program. In 2001, Kher left New Delhi for Mumbai, the epicenter of India’s highly competitive music industry, to seek his fortunes as a professional singer. For a while, Kher struggled, living in cheap residence, hostels, and eking out whatever musical work he could find to make ends meet.


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