Kanika Kapoor

Kanika Kapoor (born 21 August 1978) is an Indian playback singer. Through her successful singing career, she has received one Filmfare Award.Kapoor was born and raised in Lucknow, always aspired to pursue a career in singing, but she married businessman Raj Chandok in 1997 and moved to London, where she gave birth to three children. After getting a divorce from Raj in 2012, she relocated to Mumbai to become a singer. Kapoors first song Jugni Ji (2012) was for a music videowhich 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 and several accolades for her singing style, including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer.Kapoor subsequently earned widespread recognition and success for singing one of the Hindi cinemas 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), Premika for the film Dilwale (2015), the later of these rank among one of the highest-grossing Bollywood film. The song Da Da Dasse from the film Udta Punjab (2016), earned her several Best Playback Singer awards and nominationsfollowing which she sang the songs, Hug Me from Beiimaan Love (2016), Luv Letter from the film The Legend of Michael Mishra (2016) and Beat Pe Booty from the film A Flying Jatt (2016), all of which earned her further success.

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