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Monday, January 14, 2002
Music Beat

This Babydoll wants Seulement Vous (Only you)

The real name of Alisha Chinai is Sujata. She changed her name so that the name would look impressive in the arena she had chosen as her profession. Today, Alisha Chinai is the undisputed Queen of Indipop. She entered the Indian music scene at a time when Indipop was an unknown concept. Alisha's debut was in Alyque Padamsee's play Evita in which she did a cameo and sang 'Another Suitcase in Another Hall' in the early part of the mid '80's. Her first album was Jadoo at the time when not much was happening in pop world. Her next two albums 'Aah!… Alisha' and 'Babydoll' were bigger hits. After this she started playback singing, in which she made her debut with 'Tarzan O My Tarzan' under Bappi Lahiri in Tarzan (1985). Alisha also did English and Hindi cover versions of Madonna and they surprisingly outsold the Madonna catalogue in India. She then did an English album called 'Kama Sutra'. In 1993, her first album with Magnasound, 'Bombay Girl' won the Triple Platinum Disc award. And then came her biggest success 'Made In India', which sold over 30 lakh units and maintained its hegemony on number1 on the charts for over a year. Recently her song for the film 'Pyar tune kya kiya' was a major success. Alisha is back with her latest 10-track album 'Alisha', which is on the top charts in Indipop category on all music channels. 'Seulement Vous' is the songs whose video is popular on all music channels.

 


www.smashits.com

Some of the popular songs of Alisha are available on this site. Bas, Chhoti si baat, Dil ki rani, Vah-Vah are few of them. One can email the song's link to friends from this site. A new window opens when we click a selected song, which gives us the options to rate the song, send it to friend, option of listening next or previous song. More Alisha songs are available on another page of this site. But the site does not permit download of songs.

www.musicindiaonline.com

This page gives us the link to the songs of two successful albums of Alisha; Dil Ki Rani and Made in India. Made in India whose music was composed by Alisha and Biddu was a major success. All songs of both her albums are there. We cannot download the songs from this site.

 — Amit Puri


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