Alka revealed that music was always a part of her growing up, the Saregama was always around her because both her parents sang. There was Tanpura at home, the guruji came to teach her mother and often she sat for the Riaz too.
There was a radio at home and it was forever playing. As a little girl I would plonk next to it and get lost in the melody. I liked the film songsnot the ragas my mother’s guru taught her.
One day my mother caught me humming s song I had heard on the radio and decided that I had to learn music and that was the beginning….
I must be 3 when I started singing and 6 when I started performing on stage. I was 14 when I recoded ‘Mete Amgen mein….’ for Lawaris. I was told I was subbing for another artiste so I was not at all nervous. Later they told me it was for playback and made me hear the final version. It was awesome I could not believe it.
Over the decades I sang so many songs for so many heroines, Juhi, Madhuri, Karisma, Kajol, Kareena, the latest was Deepika Padukone in Tamasha.
It has been a wonderful journey as a singer and I salute the universe for bringing music into my life.
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