Soham Chakrabarty


Soham S Chakravarty is a playback singer who has sung many songs for Bollywood movies as well as for Bengali movies. He was declared the winner of Zee's "Sa-re-ga-ma" in the year 2000. Till now his big hit is "In Dino" song from the movie Life in A... Metro and "Khudaya Khair" from the movie Billu Barber.

Early life

Soham is a Bengali, who started singing at the age of ten. He is trained in Hindustani classical music under the guidance of Acharya Jayanta Bose, Ustad Mohammed Sagaruddin Khan' saab, Sukhdev Sengupta', and, Ajoy Das. Music directors Bappi Lahiri and O P Nayyar suggested to him that if he wanted to pursue singing as a career, he'd have to shift base to Mumbai. Since then he started living in Mumbai. He came to Mumbai in 2002.

Career

He has been through a lot of struggle. He sang for Ada and Dil Samander ads though that was finally dubbed by Sonu Nigam and KK, respectively.
He has done several ad jingles like Emami and Mc Donalds with music director Pritam.
T-Series gave him his first break in 13 languages including Telugu, Tamil, Bhojpuri and Assamese. He has sung many Hindi and Bengali songs for Bollywood movies and Bengali movies, respectively. He has also sung devotional songs with popular singers like Debashish, Preeti, Pinky, Javed Ali, Charanjeet Singh Sondhi, Kalpana, Priya Bhattacharya, etc.

Filmography

Hindi Songs

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Bengali songs

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Accolades

YearAwardCategoryFilmResultRef
2000Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma 2000Winner in Grand FinaleWon
2008Screen Award 2008Screen Award for Best Playback Singer – MaleLife in A... MetroWon