GiMA Award for Best Female Playback Singer

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The GiMA Best Female Playback Singer Award is given by Global Indian Music Academy as a part of its annual Global Indian Music Academy Awards to recognise a female playback singer who has delivered an outstanding performance in a film song.

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Superlatives

SuperlativeSingerRecord
Most awards Shreya Ghoshal 2
Most nominations Shreya Ghoshal 7
Most nominations without ever winning Rekha Bhardwaj (2011, 2015), Monali Thakur (2014, 2016)2
Most nominations in a single year Sunidhi Chauhan (2011), Shreya Ghoshal (2012)3

List of winners

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