Shreya Ghoshal Birthday: Shreya Ghoshal is celebrating her 41st birthday. Shreya received her first National Award for her first song at the age of just 18. The celebrated singer was born on 12 March 1984 in a Bengali Brahmin family. Her childhood was spent in Rawatbhata, a small town near Kota in Rajasthan.
Shreya started taking music lessons from the age of 4. She started her career with Zee TV’s reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Shreya Ghoshal has achieved great heights at a young age. There is a magic and intoxication in her songs. This is the reason why she has won many awards related to singing in the film world.
Fans see a glimpse of Lata Mangeshkar in Shreya Ghoshal. Shreya has a special achievement to her name. Shreya Ghoshal Day is celebrated in her name in America. When Shreya Ghoshal stepped into Bollywood film industry, she was 16 years old. When she sang for the film Devdas, she got National Award for that song.
When Shreya used to sing in the reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s mother was fascinated by Shreya Ghoshal’s voice. She advised her son to make Shreya Ghoshal sing in the film. Sanjay Leela Bhansali could not ignore his mother’s advice and gave Shreya Ghoshal a chance in his film Devdas. Shreya Ghoshal sang many songs in Devdas. She got National Award for the song ‘Bairi Piya‘. After this, she never looked back and every year she kept getting some award or the other.
Sonu Nigam had expressed support for Shreya Ghoshal in the past and said that she should also be awarded with National Award like Padma Shri. Another interesting anecdote about Shreya Ghoshal is that on 25 June, Shreya Ghoshal had gone to Ohio, USA for a program. It was a summer day in 2010 and on that day, the governor of Ohio, Trade Strickland, who was pleased to hear her at the program, announced that he would celebrate this day as Shreya Ghoshal Day. Since that day, Shreya Ghoshal Day is celebrated every year on 25 June in Ohio.
