Sonu Nigam Honoured With Prestigious Padma Shri Award- Deets Inside!

Bollywood’s famous singer Sonu Nigam has been selected for the Padma Shri award this year. The singer was announced to be honored with this award before Republic Day. The prestigious Padma Awards have been announced on the eve of Republic Day and a total of 128 people have been conferred with these awards. The Government of India announced the names selected for the Padma Award 2022. During this, well-known Bollywood stars in the field of art will be honored with Padma Shri. Under this, Chandraprakash Dwivedi, director of actor Akshay Kumar’s starrer film Prithviraj, will also be honored with Padma Shri.

Padma Shri To Sonu Nigam

48-year-old Sonu Nigam is an Indian singer as well as a music director and celebrity judge. Everyone is crazy about the sweet voice of Bollywood’s legendary singer Sonu Nigam. Born on July 30, 1973, in Faridabad, Sonu Nigam has struggled hard to reach this point. His inclination towards music has been there since childhood.

Apart from Hindi, the famous playback singer of the film industry, Sonu Nigam has also lent his voice to songs in many languages ​​including Kannada, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Nepali, Malayalam, Kannada, Bhojpuri. Apart from films, Sonu Nigam has also released several non-film albums.

Sonu Nigam

Apart from this, the singer has also acted in a few Hindi films. Sonu Nigam, who has lent his voice to more than 5000 songs in the cinema world, is also known as ‘Melody Master’ along with ‘Modern Rafi’ and ‘The Lord of Chords’.
Sonu Nigam sang songs for around 320 films in his career span of 3 decades. He has been honored with the Filmfare Award twice so far. Sonu has also received the National Film Award for the title track of the film ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’.

Apart from this, the song “Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin” from the film Agneepath in the year 2012 proved to be a huge hit in the voice of Sonu Nigam. The singer has also received IIFA and Filmfare awards. Sonu Nigam is currently in Dubai with his family. Recently, along with him, his family got infected with Corona, about which he had given information through social media.