Monday, March 25, 2002		Music Beat

At 3, he had to face music

BORN on July 30, 1973 at Faridabad, Haryana, Sonu Nigam is among the few singers who have made it big both in the film music industry as well as in the Indipop circle. Father Agam Kumar's enthusiasm for music was passed on to Sonu and he soon began training under him. He was just three when he first made his debut public performance and sang the Mohammad Rafi's song 'Kya hua tera vaada' from film 'Hum kisi se kam nahin'. Sonu made his way to Mumbai where he was barely 18 years old. The first song that he recorded was for the film Aaja Meri Jaan. Unfortunately for Sonu, S. P. Balasubramaniam dubbed the song. However, Gulshan Kumar heard Sonu and summoned him. And then began his long association with the music company, T-Series. The song that catapulted him to fame was Achha sila diya tune mere pyaar ka from the film 'Bewafa Sanam'. Today, every third song recorded for movie is sung by Sonu Nigam. Apart from film and pop album offers, he is the anchor for musical shows like Sa Re Ga Ma and Kisme Kitna Hai Dum

This site as the name suggests is about Sonu Nigam. The index page has his profile, photo album, list of solo albums, articles and concerts information. In the download section, his first duet song with melody queen Lata Mangeshkar 'Khamoshiyan gungunane lageen' is available in MP3 format for free download. Many more songs are available for download in MP3 format. Videos for free download are available in Real Video format. There are few songs available in MP3 format for download in Solo album section.

www.mp3india.com

This site is about movies and songs. A lot of songs sung by Sonu Nigam are available, but one has to search it by the name of the movie. Songs are available for download in MP3 format. For finding the pop songs sung by Sonu Nigam just write his name in the search box and the result shows the list of pop songs sung by him. This site is a big resource for songs. One can send the request of any particular song to the site administrator. Site promises to consider the request of new and old songs.

www.smashits.com

This site has a big collection of Sonu Nigam's songs. From the index page one can select the option of artists and then Sonu Nigam. Around 15 songs are there to listen online. Other way to listen to his songs is to click the option of pop, where one can find albums of Sonu Nigam. Yaad, Jaanam, Jaan and Mausam are some of the pop albums available for listening online.

 — Amit Puri