Richa Sharma Biography

Richa Sharma is an Indian playback singer who mainly sings for Hindi movies.

Richa Sharma was born in Faridabad, Haryana, the youngest of seven children of a temple priest. Her father Pandit Daya Shankar Upadhyaya and mother Manorma Devi taught young Richa the art of singing bhajans, particularly Mata Ke Jagran, which slowly and steadily became her destiny in the initial years of her life.

Career

Richa Sharma was eight years old, when she was invited to sing before religious congregations in and around Delhi. She got herself enrolled in the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya.

Under the tutelage of Pandit Aaskaran Sharma, Richa went on to get proper training in Indian classical and light music. Richa added ghazals, film songs, Punjabi and Rajasthani folk songs to her repertoire, thus making her voice reach out to more and more people in a variety of sounds.

While music was at its peak in Richa’s life, academic education had to be sacrificed and without any backing with a dream to make it big in the music world, Richa landed in Mumbai in 1994.

She sang cover versions and bhajans in order to ensure she had her bread and butter and simultaneously continued her struggle in Bollywood. She made her debut in Bollywood with Sawan Kumar’s Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya in 1996 and followed it up by a number of films until the big hit came by in the form of Taal where she sang for AR Rahman.

Pop Albums

"O Baby O Baby" is one of the remarkable albums. She has sung "Hye Lagi re lagan" in sufi andaz. The music director was Shailesh-Utpal (Gujarati Shakira fame).

Television

She was a contestant on the NDTV Imagine singing reality show Dhoom Macha De. She hosted the ever-popular Antakshari with Anu Kapoor on Zee TV. Richa’s exuberance and earthy style of hosting the show attracted a lot of attention.

She hosted the show for almost a year before ending a successful run on television. She appeared on the singing reality show Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star as a guest judge.