

She has sung 2,486 Hindi songs in 1,114 films. She also sang a song titled "Maine Li Jo Angdai" for the album Women's Day Special: Spreading Melodies Everywhere. In 2014, she once again teamed up with Sonu Nigam to sing a song "Phool Khil Jayenge" for child health awareness. She has also been involved in various projects pertaining to empowerment of the girl child. Yagnik has sung more than 9000 songs in over 300 films. Alka has acknowledged veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar as her inspiration, She has sung romantic, sad, peppy, seductive and item number songs. In 2012 she along with Sonu Nigam sang a song 'Shiksha Ka Suraj' as part of National Literacy Mission of India for which she was felicitated by Union Minister For Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal. Although, she has sung many genres of songs but according to Alka, her voice suits the romantic genre best. Yagnik has also been the judge of various Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge shows, and Star Voice of India. Yagnik shares the title with Asha Bhosle for the greatest number of Filmfare Awards won (7) by a single female playback singer. She has also rendered the Hanuman Chalisa and various devotional songs. She has also sung many duets with Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet, Hariharan, Vinod Rathod, and Shaan. In a career spanning over three decades, she has sung many duet songs, most of these have been with Kumar Sanu and then Udit Narayan. She holds a record of being the only nominee in the category of Female Playback Singer, as in the year 1994 she had three solo nominations and the fourth one was with Ila Arun. She is noted in Indian cinema for a career spanning over three decades. Keeravani, Sajid–Wajid, Bappi Lahiri, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sandesh Shandilya and many others. Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer. Rahman, Anand–Milind, Himesh Reshammiya, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Ismail Darbar, Aadesh Shrivastava, Viju Shah, M. She has worked with Indian composers such as Kalyanji–Anandji, Rahul Dev Burman, Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Rajesh Roshan, Nadeem–Shravan, Jatin–Lalit, Anu Malik, A. She has sung in many languages other than Urdu-Hindi, including Gujarati, Avadhi, Odia, Assamese, Meitei, Rajasthani, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, English and Malayalam. The song won her first out of seven Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer. Get ready to take a trip down memory lane with two Bollywood singing legends as Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik perform live in Dubai in February. She got her big break with the song "Ek Do Teen" from the film Tezaab (1988). Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik Image Credit: Supplied. Her first song was for the film Payal Ki Jhankaar in (1980).

Yagnik is classically trained and began singing bhajans for Akashvani, Calcutta at the age of six.
