Alisha Chinai is an Indian pop singer known for her Indi-pop albums as well as playback singing in Hindi cinema. She began her singing career with the album Jadoo in 1985, and by the 1990s she had become known as the 'Queen of Indipop'. Her best known songs were with producers Anu Malik and Biddu during the 1990s. Her best known song is Made in India.
Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop, refers to pop music produced in India that is independent from filmi soundtracks for Indian cinema. Indian pop is closely linked to Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood and the Asian Underground scene of the United Kingdom. The variety of South Asian music from different countries are generally known as Desi music.
Alisha also refer as protected from God is a cognate of the Spanish-language feminine given name Alicia, a variant of the French/German-language name Alice, which comes from Old English Æthelhādas or Æðelhādas, meaning noble or nobility.
Biddu Appaiah is a British-Indian singer-songwriter, composer, and music producer who composed and produced many worldwide hit records during a career spanning five decades. Considered one of the pioneers of disco, Euro disco, and Indian pop, he has sold millions of records worldwide, and has received an Ivor Novello award for his work. He has been ranked at number 34 on NME's "The 50 Greatest Producers Ever" list.
Sharon Prabhakar is an Indian pop singer, theatre personality and public speaker.
Mohammed Aziz, also known as Munna, was an Indian multilingual playback singer who primarily sang for the Bollywood, Odia films, Bengali. He sang about twenty thousand songs, including Bhajans, Sufi devotional songs and other genres in more than ten different Indian languages. He made his first appearance in films Odia film titled Jaga Hatare Pagha directed by Mohammad Mohsin, with the song Rupa Sagadi re Suna Kaniya. Later he the sung most numbers of songs in Odia and for Ollywood Actor Siddhanta Mahapatra. Later he appeared with a Hindi film titled Ambar (1984) and his two prominent songs, including "Mard Tangewala" composed by Anu Malik were introduced in Mard.
Leslee Peter Lewis, popularly known as Lezz Lewis, is an Indian singer and composer known for his work with Hariharan as the duo Colonial Cousins. They won the MTV Asia Viewer's Choice Award and then the U.S. Billboard Viewer's Choice Award for 'Colonial Cousins', their debut album. He conceived and created all the music for Coke Studio, MTV India debut season.
Vijaypath is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language action drama film starring Ajay Devgn, Tabu and Danny Denzongpa.
Harjeet Singh "Baba" Sehgal, is an Indian rapper. He is widely acclaimed to be the first Indian rapper. He is also involved in various other areas of the entertainment industry, and works in several different languages' media. He was a contestant in the reality show Bigg Boss in 2006.
Magnasound was an Indian record company that specialized in Indian classical music, Indian rock and Indipop. It was distributed by OMI Music Inc. Shashi Gopal was the managing director of Magnasound.
Made in India is an Indi-pop album by Alisha Chinai, with production by Biddu, released in 1995. It was the first album by an Indian pop (Indipop) artist to be sold on a scale comparable to Hindi film music albums, with over five million copies sold in India. The album established Indipop as a discrete genre and its singer Chinai became the genre's main proponent.
Aah... Alisha! is a 1986 platinum-selling, Hindi-language pop album by Indi-pop star Alisha Chinai. As well as singing each song, she factored heavily in the production, having co-written seven of the eight songs.
Babydoll is a 1988 Hindi-language platinum-selling pop album by Indipop star Alisha Chinai. The success of the Babydoll album, and that of Suneeta Rao's album Senorita (1989), encouraged HMV to promote other early Indipop stars such as Ali Haider (1990). The album was reportedly India's "first fully computerised album". The sound engineer was Rajesh Johri, alias 'Wizkid', Alisha's husband.
Kamasutra is a 1990 Hindi-language platinum-selling pop album by Indipop star Alisha Chinai.
Bombay Girl is a 1994 Hindi-language pop album by Indian pop singer Alisha Chinai. The album marked a rebranding of the singer from the western image and sound of the platinum-selling Babydoll and Madonna albums for HMV, to a new more wholesome image for Magnasound. It was first released in May 1994 on Cassette and later, in January 1995 on CD. It was also Sonu Nigam's first Indipop album.
Made in India was a weekly music programme on Channel V from 1996, specializing in Indipop. The theme song was sung by Alisha Chinai taken from her album of the same name.
"Zindagi Meri Dance Dance" is a Hindi song from the Indian film Dance Dance (1987). The song has a remix version in 2017 film Daddy. The film's director Ashim Ahluwalia wanted to make a tribute to composer Bappi Lahiri, so he worked with Norwegian DJ Olefonken to remix the song. It originally composed by Bappi Lahiri and sung by Alisha Chinai in the film Dance Dance. DJ Olefonken recreated it for 2017 film Daddy. But he retained the original singers' voice.
