Sadhana Sargam

Sadhana Sargam is one of the well-known singers from Maharashtra, India. She is known as very melodious and versatile singer. Although a chitpavan Maharashtrian, she has sung in almost all major Indian languages.
She is also a classical musician. She was trained by her mother at her early childhood and then by Pandit Jasraj by latter on. She is famous for her live concerts and for her live performances.
She won several awards throughout her career including the Indian national award as the best female playback singer in 2002 for a Tamil song "Pattu solli" from the movie Azhagi, composed by Meastro Ilayaraja. She was the first Maharashtrian, as well as singer from outside South India, either male or female, to have won a national award for a South Indian language song.
Recently, Sargam was among the singers who took part in a classical concert to mark Mangeshkar's 100th birthday celebrations and earned praise from Hirudhayanath Mangeshkar for her performances in Hindustani classicals.[citation needed]
In her early days as a singer, her voice in high octaves was thought to be similar to that of Lata Mangeshkar while her low octave voice was that of Asha Bhosle. However, as time passed Sargam developed her own distinct style. It is believed that Sadhana Sargam was unwittingly responsible for the rift between music greats Kalyanji-Anandji and Lata Mangeshkar when the duo compared Sargam with Mangeshkar.[citation needed] Mangheskar thought the comparing herself with a much junior teenage singer was very unacceptable.[citation needed]
Her all time favorites include "Pehla Nasha" from Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, "Chupke Se" from Saathiya, and "Snehidhane" from Alaipayuthey, which is also the original version of "Chupke Se" in Tamil.[citation needed]
Sadhana Sargam was well received in Tamil Nadu. She is very busy in the Tamil music field. Among the Maharashtrian singers, Sargam sang the highest number of songs in the Tamil music field.[citation needed] She is more popular than Lata Mangheshkar, Asha Bhosle, Anuradha Paudwal or Alka Yagnik in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, where Tamil is spoken widely and Tamil music is listened to.[citation needed]
Composers Ilayaraja and A. R. Rahman use her voice more often in Hindi, Tamil, or Telugu songs.[citation needed] She also sang in an international production Warriors of Heaven and Earth under Mr. Rahman direction recently and became a global singer.

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