Neha Kakkar's biography, career, personal life, favorites, awards

Neha Kakkar

Neha Kakkar

Neha Kakkar is a well-known and most popular singer In India. She sang many Hindi and Punjabi songs for Bollywood films and albums.

At the age of four, Neha Kakkar started to sing in religious events. In 2006, at the age of sixteen, she participated in the reality TV show “Indian Idol Season 2” but she didn’t win the show.

After struggling for few years, Neha Kakkar became a famous singer. She became the judge of various reality shows like Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’ll Champas (2017); Indian Idol Season 10 (2018) and Indian Idol Season 11 (2019).

Neha Kakkar likes to sing pop, hip-hop and R&B.

Neha Kakkar’s Early Life

On 6^th June, 1988, Neha Kakkar was born in Rishikesh, in the Indian state of  Uttarakhand. Her father Rishikesh Kakkar was a samosa seller outside the school and colleges. Her mother Niti Kakkar was a housewife.

Neha Kakkar started her studies from New Holy Public School in Delhi. She has an elder sister named Sonu Kakkar, who is also a playback singer. Neha Kakkar's  elder brother Tony Kakkar, also a singer and composer.

In Rishikesh, they lived in a rented, single roomed house.

In 1990, Kakkar family moved to Delhi. That time, they faced many difficulties and financial problems.

At the age of four, Neha Kakkar and her sister and her brother performed in the religious events like “Mata Ki Chauki” or “Jagaran”. According to her, they performed four to five Jagarans per day. She has no musical training at all.

To become a playback singer, Neha Kakkar came to Mumbai in 2004, with Tony Kakkar. After a long time struggle, Neha Kakkar participated in the reality TV show “Indian Idol Season 2” in 2006 at the age of sixteen, but unfortunately, she was eliminated early. 

 

Sonu Kakkar with Neha Kakkar

 Neha Kakkar’s Physical Appearance

Height          :- 4’9’’

Weight         :- 46 kg

Hair Colour :- Black

Eye Colour  :- Black

Zodiac Sign :- Gemini

Nationality :- Indian

Religion       :- Hinduism

Hobby          :- Singing

  Neha Kakkar’s Favourite Things

Actor         :- Shahrukh Khan

Actress      :- Jacqueline Fernandez

Musician   :- A.R Rahman ,Yo Yo Honey Singh ,Bohemia ,Nyvaan and Shannon Donald

Neha Kakkar said that her sister Sonu and her brother Tony are the inspirations of her and the pillar of strength. She also mentioned Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kishore Kumar, Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Sonu Nigam are the inspiration of her.

Actor Govinda is a role model to her.

Neha Kakkar’s Career

Neha Kakkar participated the reality show “Indian Idol Season 2” but did not win. After several struggling she did not get any work. She started to perform many concerts and events. The people started to call her “Jai Mata Di girl”

In 2008, her debut album “Neha the Rockstar” was released She became famous with releasing this album .In this album, She sang some romantic songs. She also recorded “Romeo Juliet” music album which was composed by her brother Tony Kakkar.

In 2008, Neha Kakkar sang “Hai Rama” for “Meerabai Not Out” and in 2009, the theme song of “Blue”, where she gave her voice as chorus vocals. Then she sang the title song of the TV serial “Na aana is des mere Lado”.

In 2010, Neha Kakkar made her debut film “Is Life Mein” but it was flop. In this film she played the role of a college student.

In 2010, she also sang four tracks of Kannada and Telugu .In2011, she sang “Who Ek Pal” composed by Sandeep Chowta. The same year, Neha Kakkar collaborated with Pritam for the dance track “Second Hand Jaawani” in “Cocktail”, which was a breakthrough for her. After this she sang “Dhating Naach”, for the film “Phata Poster Nikla Hero”.

Neha Kakkar became famous when her song “SRK Antheme” was viral on YouTube.

In 2014, her three songs were popular. The first song was for the film “Yaariyan”. In the same year, her “London Thumka” was released.

In 2015, Neha Kakkar’s “Ek DO Teen Chaar” was released for the film “Ek Paheli Leela”, but she got negative reviews.

In 2016, she sang “Mile Ho Tum” for the film “Fever” which was composed by Tony Kakkar. He was also the co-singer of this song. This song brought her success.

Neha Kakkar’s “Kala Chashma” in the soundtrack album of “Baar Baar Dekho”, became most popular. She sang “Humne Pee Rakhi Hai” for the film “Sanam Re”; “Kar Gayi Chull” for the film “Kapoor & Sons”; “Maahi Ve”, a remake from the film “Kante”.

In 2017, Neha Kakkar collaborated with Tanishk Bagchi and released “Badri ki Dulhania” for the film “Badrinath Ki Dulhania”.The same year,”Cheez Badi” from “Machine” which was a remake song of “Mohra” got popular .Her next song was a dance song “Main Tera Boyfriend” for “Raabta” which was also a remake of a non-film track “Na Na Na Na”

In 2017, Neha Kakkar appeared as a judge in the 6^th Season of “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’ll Champs”, a reality show on Zee TV. At the end of year 2017, Neha Kakkar sang “Mehbooba” for the film “Fukrey Returns”, which was also a re-make song of Mohammad Rafi and the film was “Dharam Veer” (1977).

In 2018, Neha Kakkar sang a re-make “Tote Tote Ho Gaya”. After that, she sang “Dilbar” for the film “Satyameva Jayate” and “Aankh Maarey” for the film “Simba” were so popular that both the songs reached the list of most-viewed Indian videos on YouTube and the former reached the number three position on the Billboard, YouTube Music Chart.

Neha Kakkar also performed on Punjabi track “Bhangra Da Sajda” for “Veer Di Wedding”.

In 2018, Neha Kakkar appeared as a judge on “Indian Idol”.

In 2019, she sang “Chamma Chamma” for the film “Fraud Saiyaan”.This song was also a recreation of “Chamma Chamma” of the “China Gate” (1998).

Neha Kakkar sang many hit songs which brought her fame and success. The songs are: “Coca Cola Tu” for the film “Luka Chuppi”; “Hauli Hauli” for “De De Pyar De”; “Hook Up” ; “O Saki Saki” for “Batla Hause”; “Ek Toh Kam Jindegani” for the film “Marjaavaan” etc. Her “Sunny Sunny” song with Yo Yo Honey Singh was the most popular song of the year.

Neha Kakkar appeared in many shows as a guest like “Comedy Night with Kapil (2014) ; “Comedy Classes”(2015) ; “Comedy Nights Bachao”(2016) ; “Comedy Nights Live”(2016).

Neha Kakkar launched her own official app, named Official app for Neha Kakkar, for connecting with her fans.

 Neha Kakkar’s Personal Life

Himansh Kohli

Neha Kakkar and the actor Himansh Kohli were in a relationship, but in 2018, their relationship was broke up and she went to depression.

 Neha Kakkar’s Award

Neha Kakkar won “Zee Ristey Awards” in 2017 for favourite judge.

She won “Zee Cine Awards” in 2019 for viewer’s choice song of the year (film Simba).

She also got “Mirchi Music Award” in 2020 for Mirchi Social Media Icon.

In this time, Neha Kakkar is the second most watched female artist on YouTube. She gets 1.5 lakhs for every song.

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